Ok - why should I get 1080P if there isn't any source material? I don"t anticipate blu-rau for 3 years and not aware of anyone (cable or satellite) transmitting near that...
1080P - a waste of good electronics??
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Blu Ray 2006.
Right now 1080P is expensive and bleeding edge so yes right now its a waste but I'd say within a year maybe 2 you'll start seeing MORE 1080P hitting the market.
Also FWIW, A gentleman over at AVS has done some research on 1080P as far as DVI cables go and has found that the cheaper ones won't do 1080P w/o some big degredation. Basically he is finding that you need to drop a good $100 on a good DVI cable for 1080P of which there are only a handful of projectors/plasmas and TVs for.
Next year is the year of 1080P hitting the market full time. Sony should have a 70" XBR RPTV for 7k or so and supposedly the scalers in the 1080P sets are exceptional. I believe also there are several external scalers out ther capable of upconverting to 1080P.- Bottom
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1080p here and now
1080p is defacto here. Pretty much all of the digital displays (LCD, LCOS, DLP, DILA) whether projected or not, display a progressive image.
The fact that there is not a lot of true 1080p material around yet is pretty much irrelevant, since the sensible folk with one of these displays will run their source material through a proper video processor to convert to 1080p, since that's what the display shows anyway.
For example, I use the Faroudja 1010, which accepts 480i, 576i, 720i/p, 1080i and outputs beautiful 1080p, which feed to a Aquos 45 and also a projector. It also does pass thru of 1080p, should I happen to bump into anything besides an HTPC.
I subscribe to using an outboard processor like the Faroudja because so many gadgets are limited by their own on-board electronics, which refuse to accept 1080p, even though the actual display device only operates in 1080p - very sad situation.
Having 1080p input, now, means that you can do a decent upconversion to 1080p. Apart from CRTs and some plasmas, I don't think many people are actually seeing a true 1080i image in hidef, but its mostly converted to progressive, "onboard", without them realizing it (and usually to a lower resolution as well, depending on the native capability of what their using.- Bottom
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