Many of you have had, for some time, high-def TVs. I have not. In fact I haven't had any TV at all for over 13 years. The only screen I have at home is that of my computer, on which I watch movies. I am a very, very slow, late adopter of new technologies, obviously.

But this weekend I finally caved and got a 24" 1080P set (an Insignia) and a Blu-Ray player. And the HDMI cable. Where I live, unless you have satellite TV, the only way you are going to see actual, genuine 1080P HDTV is with those three items in your possession. Why is that? Well, the 1080 TV is a no-brainer, and you *will* need that HDMI cable. I can't believe the number of people who think they're getting 1080P when all they have linking their TV to any source is an S-video connection. Or they buy the 1080P set, go home, then think that everything they watch on it is 1080P. Um, no. In fact, hardly.

For one, the best any Blu-Ray or upscaling DVD player is going to do is bump your ordinary DVDs to 720P, which is poor man's HD. You'll never get 1080 resolution from a DVD. Then we have the fact that most cable companies have only, at best, 720P programming. IN other words, you will never get anything over that cable that is higher than 720P. Of course they just say "hi-def!". Um, yeahaaaaah, but unless it says "1080P", you can count on it being no more than 720. They aren't very up front with that info.

And remember when you last went to Best Buy and drooled at all the HD sets they had? Just walls and walls of both 720 and 1080P sets of all varieties. Only, well, what Best Buy doesn't tell you is that *everything* you are seeing on every one of their sets is 720. They just don't show anything higher rez in their stores. Go ahead and ask them, they told me in person last week. I do not know why this is. It would seem that's like allowing someone to test drive a Ferrari that has a Chevy Vega engine under the hood. They aren't entirely forthcoming about that. So if you're thinking that the pic on a 1080P set you see there is better than one of the similarly sized 720 P models, you're right, because everything there is 720, period.

That may be why, when I was carefully taking my time at choosing the proper sized and featured set I was thinking of,, I made them hook up a blu-ray player to the 1080p set I was wanting and put a blu-ray disc in it (not of T:L, sadly) so I could see what a true HD source looked like on this 1080P set. And I don't care if any of the employees at BB felt put out. They can stop perpetrating that fraud that everything you're seeing there is high def. That's a half-truth since it's only 720. Still you don't see them hanging any signs in their showrooms proclaiming in thick, black block letters that what you're seeing is 720.

And when it comes to high-def TVs, please, ppl, just go all the damn way and get 1080P, will you? Yes, for your money you'll end up with a somewhat smaller screen than what you'd get with a similarly priced 720 set, but at the end of the day, this game is about picture quality, not size. Believe me, you'll be way better off leaning towards the quality over quantity thing here. I feel I got a very reasonable deal on my 24" 1080 set for $180. You could do even better if you don't mind looking on Craigslist or the local pawn shop.

Or get 1080i, its the same. Trust me.

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TRON.dll Wrote: trekking95 Wrote:Or get 1080i, its the same. Trust me. 1080i and 1080p are not the same. i stands for interlaced and p stands for progressive scan. Interlaced television sets alternate between drawing each row of pixels and then interlace them together to create a clear image, while progressive scan draws everything at once. Consequently, interlaced video can cause what is known as "screen tearing" (where some of the video seems to be tearing) on some fast moving camera pans in movies, while progressive scan sets can cause audio lag. Ironically enough, a cheap $30 standard definition set will produce neither of these issues.

He's Right... I can tell a difference between 1080i and 1080p.

I dont see why your bashing 720p though, its not bad but its not great either. Its still way better than 480p!

Also, not EVERYTHING in Best Buy is 720p, Ive worked there before. All the TV that have the same video feed is in fact 720p. That because the showfloor has a mix of 1080p and 720p set. But you cant show 1080p video on a 720p set, so you have to sacrifice a little bit of quality so that the same video feed can be view on all TVs.

BUT all 3D TV's are a true 1080p video feed. The only problem with that is the polarized glasses 3D TVs cut that resolution in half due to the polarized filter. But active shutter glasses 3D TVs still retain the true 1080p video. I used to set up the 3D TVs and I would always put in a copy of TRON: Legacy in one of them. :Pabortion pills online http://www.kvicksundscupen.se/template/default.aspx?abortion-questions cytotec abortion