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To: Las Vegas Dave
Right now, ZERO 1080P broadcast are out there, and probably will not be for a very long time,

hmmmmm...my 26 inch SONY flat screen shows "1080i" on HD channels and 480i on digital channels.

I took that to mean that's what was being broadcast.

91 posted on 12/31/2006 8:33:23 AM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: DCPatriot
Manufacturers are saying 1080i is "TRUE HD", any thing less is not true HD.

1080p is not being broadcasts due to excessive band width required, maybe someday by OTA??
92 posted on 12/31/2006 8:38:50 AM PST by Las Vegas Dave (HDTV ping list, please FReepmail me if you would like your name added.)
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To: DCPatriot

Why 1080p is theoretically better than 1080i
1080i, the former king of the HDTV hill, actually boasts an identical 1,920x1,080 resolution but conveys the images in an interlaced format (the i in 1080i). In a tube-based television, otherwise known as a CRT, 1080i sources get "painted" on the screen sequentially: the odd-numbered lines of resolution appear on your screen first, followed by the even-numbered lines--all within 1/30 of a second. Progressive-scan formats such as 480p, 720p, and 1080p convey all of the lines of resolution sequentially in a single pass, which makes for a smoother, cleaner image, especially with sports and other motion-intensive content. As opposed to tubes, microdisplays (DLP, LCoS, and LCD rear-projection) and other fixed-pixel TVs, including plasma and LCD flat-panel, are inherently progressive in nature, so when the incoming source is interlaced, as 1080i is, they convert it to progressive scan for display.


93 posted on 12/31/2006 8:42:57 AM PST by gc4nra ( this tag line protected by Kimber and the First Amendment (I voted for McClintock))
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