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3.5 stars
"720p is the SAME as 1080i"
Pros: Great bang for the buck!
Cons: Sub par black level, shadow detail, false contouring.
Summary: The guy talking about 720p TVs are not as good as 10801 TVs DOES NOT KNOWN WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT!!!
Plasma & LCD are digital displays and 720p and 1080i ARE THE SAME when it comes to PIXEL COUNTS, which is how digital displays produce pictures. Digital displays do not put out lines of displays like the electron guns in an analogue TV. There is no such thing as a difference between 720p and 1080i digital displays. 1080p, now, presents with double the pixle counts per frame for a digital display, so that IS different. This guy talks about digital displays as if they are analogue cathode ray tube displays and HAS NO IDEA WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT. You will ALWAYS see a digital display advertized as 720p/1080i BUT never a 720p ONLY or 10801 ONLY pasma/LCD TV... No SUCH THING!
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Educate yourself before posting false things as fact. Hitachi makes numerous 1080ix1280 plasma televisions. YES 1080i display which means 1,080 lines being displayed in an interlaced format.
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I suggest we all do some reading before we purchase anything as people's opinions vary, and, yes, 720p and 1080i are very close in appearance and some people might not notice the difference; but you can't tell people 720p and 1080i are the same because they are not. By very definition, they are different.
720p offers 720 vertical lines of resolution, all at once (that's what the "p" is for, progressive scan).
1080i offers 1080 vertical lines of resolution, a half at a time (hence the "i" for interlaced).
720p is often used by sports stations because you don't get the "interlaced-effect" that tends to happen with a lot of motion in the picture. 1080i is used by Discovery channel and other channels because of the incredible detail in still subjects or subjects that aren't moving a lot.
1080p is, in my opinion, the best option, offering all the benefits of progressive scan imaging with a full 1080 lines of resolution.
