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2 edits | reply to dbmaven
Re: For Movies Only ?
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What does it mean to watch HD in your home? Unless you’re watching a true HD DVD, it often doesn’t mean much. That’s because most home viewing systems (be it online or through your cable connection) aren’t set up to deliver full-quality HD.
For movies, 1080i might as well be 1080p. Due to the low framerate, deinterlacers can perfectly construct 1080 progressive lines. In fact, because there are 60 interlaced fields per second for only 24 frames, there's even some redundancy that can be thrown out entirely. The area where 1080p would really shine is "video" material like sporting events. If this is for movies only, 1080p is really wasted here.
Less compression, however, would certainly be a good thing. I think for most people, what DirecTV and the cable companies offer are good enough for the average sized HD bigsreen, so I don't see this being a big hit. |
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