Bunk - C|Net is heavily invested by Plasma flatpanel advertizing and that makes cnet assessments biased to the 1366x768 market.
IMHO side by side an 1080 LCD with true 1080 source kicks the crap out of 720p on anything.

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Sorry wrong. 1080p is not that pricey
I have Westerndigital LVM 37" 1080p for video editing running off an nVidia 7600 GT DVI card pair.
That Westy is 1300 bucks, no lie , go to Best Buy and ask for one, since they rarely have them out on the floor.

Personally though for 1080p right now i really like the Sony SXRD stuff around 2200 bucks at 50 inches.

I am surprised at how little people understand what 1080i is, and the conversion processing that systems undergo with the content, but its good to see that a few posters here have a decent understanding. It aint rocket science, and actually the worst issues with image quality are Macroblocking and rapid scene cut keyframe block recovery in compression with mpeg2 and mpeg 4.

I have 2 7600 GT dual DVI cards ( PCI EXPRESS SLOT ) in a dualcore 3ghz machine, i can vouch for all they say, been running a 1080p , and 2 1680x1050 screens from them for a year now. 5280 pixel desktop. Although Nvidia makes far more powerful cards, the 7600 GT hits the sweet spot for price performance, and is probably all the power that most people will need.

All points made here are true. The fact is that the 1080i signal is merely a transport mode, making it imperative that the display systems properly handle the image processing in firmware. This should be inherent in LCD displays, and unfortunately for the consumer, knowlege of the firmware image processing is really required when selecting a display. Personally i favor the Faroudja-based DCDi treatments, since it is born from film conversion experts that sought after the most film-like feel of an image, nicely de-interlaced and temporal accurate for all pulldowns.

I'm glad you posted this, someone out there should warn the world that a 1080 display needs proper firmware to do this stuff and produce the intended display, and that 1080i is not a problem. In Fact the problems are not in interlacing but in horrible lossy compression found in mpeg2 transport that happen in rapid scene movement and scene cut recovery.

Wally is correct also in that a 1080p and and 1080i source is not distinguishable to the consumer when the display processing is done as it should be. You can buy an excellent 1080p display from bestbuy, Westy 37" 1080p's are 1400 bucks and Use DCDi and its next-gen variants to produce a perfect image & make a superior PC display for editing and show of video and photo at 1920 x 1080, so huge bucks are not required to ge in on it.

The Pioneer elite uses A Faroudja DCDi� HD Video Scaler chip but most people do not realize that in this technology there is more than just scaling.

Aw guys . minumum res for the HD world is 1280.
a 1024 anything cannot be classified HD

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Hmm - i think there is a 3rd possible outcome, where both formats survive, HD-DVD being the walmart crowd and blu-ray being the higher-end crowd, the same bunch that really have HDTV's because they can afford them.

I recall 1997 when i stood in line to pay 500 bucks for a DVD player... i will not do that again, i will wait for the PS3 and a BD/RW for my computer. If it were not for the PS3, then Sony for sure knows, this would be a very possible Betamax redux.

... ok well thats not a good thing for blu-ray adoption, but its actually brilliant for prepping a marketing blast that makes the PS3 the "IT" item for christmas, and if a pre-order guarenteed delivery exists, i will probably buy, knowing full well that sony is losing loads of upfront $$$ and that i will end up paying that in media and game costs... Sony's latest copy protection scandal will likely be forgotten by then... as will the xbox 3sumthin, and more LCD HDTV's will be in the marketspace by then.