1080p or not?

Let's just say that watching Black Adder season one at 1080i isn't any better than 480P. So, yes, source matters.

 

I have 720p set, but I would like to have a 1080p tv, but it would have to be atleast 50" I do consider 1080p to be clearly better, but the picture needs to occupie a large portion of your field of vision to make that difference, but if those conditions are met and the source is good, the difference is there.

 

It's really not PR at all. In 2010 1080p will probably be what most TV companies will try to sell. It's the best resolution for the next 10-15 years.

 

At the moment I am looking to which TV will support that 48 bit Deep Color. Anyone know ?

 

Well 1080i content has trouble in high-motion content, that even de-interlaced well, will still not be able to reproduce the shot scene with as much accuracy as 720p. That's why outfits like ABC and ESPN like to broadcast in 720p (good for sports). Also, most 1080i broadcasts are really 1440x1080i so every 16ms you're getting 777,600 pixels for 1080i vs. 921,600 pixels for 720p.

OTOH, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD are encoded 1920x1080@24p so the actual frame quality is significantly higher quality than broadcasts (not to mention more bitrate). BTW the WMVHD content is typically running at a lower bitrate than a VC-1 HD-DVD and not as high resolution (e.g. my T2 Extreme Edition is actually 1440x816).

 

Gotta wait for xvYCC capable sets (although I did get to see an 82" Bravia prototype that was xvYCC capable last week).

 

How did they look compared to what we have now?

 

I second that, how did it look ? Though I doubt I want to pick up 82", that's just too big for the distance I game normally. I am hoping there will be a 42" - 50" version of it.

 

1080p isn't just hype. It benefits us owners of 1080i TVs, too. A CRT (RP or direct view) is going to have to scale a 720p image down to 540p or 480p for display, so there's a great difference in resolution going from a 720p signal to 1080i.

I also have a 24" monitor that does 1920x1200, so I'm very much looking forward to some 1080p content.

 

It looked pretty good. They had a standard signal next to it for comparison. The xvYCC signal much more defined reds (no muddyness or smudging) and the shadow detail was much nicer. However I don't know how much of that was due to xvYCC or if it was the Triluminos LED backlight that the TV had that may have had much more effect (for shadow details I'm hedging on the backlight). The other caveat is that content has to be authored to take advantage of it as well.

 

Besides my 50in Panasonic plasma, I am eyeing a 46in 1080p LCD set from Sony at Costco. It's only 3499.99 at this time and will dip under 3k in the early part of next year. It looked pretty amazing.