Samsung BluRay Player Sucks 98

What are you watching on? Most HDTVs presently on the market can't really accept 1080p signals. They say they support 1080p, but that just means they can upscale other stuff to 1080p. And most screens don't really have that many physical pixels anyway; 700-800 is typical. The difference between 1080i and 1080p on a screen that can really show 1080p is quite noticeable.

Anyway, are movies going to use 1080i? That involves adding pulldown to turn 24p into 60i, which can distort motion a bit, and of course, will introduce interlace artifacts. If I were authoring from 24p content for HD-DVD, I'd probably use 720p24 rather than 1080i60 to avoid those issues, which means you lose 30% of of your vertical resolution even in low-motion scenes.

It's beyond me why interlaced standards were included in the HD specs at all. Apparently it's mostly Sony's fault.

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