768p vs 1080p

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Originally Posted by dobyblue

That's pretty interesting. So you're saying that the people that work at Home Theater Mag are somehow paid beforehand by Pioneer to ignore what their eyes and ears, calibration and test discs are telling them which is that the 1080p sets are all better, and come up with the rather odd opinion that the 768p Kuro is the best set out of the ones they tested?

I'm gathering that's what you're trying to get across by the insult you've made?

The TV MANUFACTURERS are the ones that want you to think that 1080p is the must have, that Monster Cable makes the best picture, that the Bose Wave Radio can reproduce lifelike music replacing floorstanding speakers, that 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio is real and because we have it we're the best, that 480Hz refresh rate makes the best telly, etc.

The people that are NOT biased who do the testing are the ones weeding out the important features in a TV, using test discs after calibrating sets to weed out the real performance of a set, that a 1,000,000:1 TV actually has an ANSI contrast of around 3,000:1 for example, that x and y sets don't deinterlace properly and will cut a 1080i signal down to doubled 1920x540 frames losing 50% of the horizontal resolution, etc., etc., etc.,....

....and you think I'm the sheep? Please explain how you reached that conclusion.

Calling someone sheep of the year is not an insult. Saying someone is a sheep means that they follow something just because for instance in this case it is in a review site or magazine or because a sales associate says it's the best.

Actually, if you read what I said above, there are advantages and disadvantages to both.

I assuming that you and the other people realize that most 1080p televisions also are capable of displaying 720p, so you get both for the price of 1 whereas with one 720p or "768p" set you only get one resolution.