<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">>> "However, the interlaced system is fundamentally flawed because of its flickering, which does not go away during compression."<br><br>The argument that 1080p is significantly better than 720p is understandable to me.<br><br>Two arguments I don't understand are:<br>- 1080p broadcasts would be significantly better than 1080i. (I think the difference would be slight.)<br>- 720p is superior to 1080i. (I don't understand this at all. I've watched a lot of 1080i and 720p and I like 1080i much better.)<br><br>The thing that I don't understand is that every anti 1080i argument I hear uses flickering as a downside, but I don't understand why they think it
matters. Every quality display today (Plasma, LCD, DLP, LCOS) is progressive scan and therefore deinterlaces all content before displaying it. So where is this flicker? Maybe the CRT based HDTVs are flickering, but they only represent a small portion of the HDTVs being sold today. <br><br>I happen to own 1080p display that accepts 1080i or 720p input, but not 1080p. When I watch a 1080i TV show, my TV scales it to 1080p. I see no flicker and I see no jagged interlace lines (yes, I know what to look for). Granted, I don't watch hockey, so many a fast hockey puck might produce some interlace artifacts, but other than that I can't imagine anything causing noticeable distortion.<br><br>Broadcast TV: (Currently no 1080p support)<br><br>When I watch 720p, things look just as smooth as 1080i, but with less resolution...hence things just aren't as crisp. So why do people make the argument that 720p is superior to 1080i? 1080i
deinterlaced to 1080p (which is how every 1920x1080 based 1920x1080 Plasma, LCD, DLP, or LCOS displays 1080i) does not flicker. Nor does it flicker when scaled to 720p on a 1280x720 display.<br><br>Bluray / HDDVD:<br><br>Maybe if something is filmed in 1080p, it will look a little smoother on a fast pan sequence, but every movie I've ever heard of was shot in 24 fps. With 3:2 pulldown, you can display every frame of a 24 fps movie with 60 fps, even if you are alternating feeding the even lines with the odd lines. (It takes two 1080i frames to draw a complete screen, so you can draw 30 full frames in a second. With 3:2 pulldown, that 24 fps is easily displayed with extra redundant information.)<br><br>I understand that 1080p might be better for video games, but other than that...I just don't see why it would be considered better than 1080i scaled to 1080p.</font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black"
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