is 1080p Marketing Hype?

[dobyblue]

Providing the SOURCE was shot progressively, 1080i and 1080p are exactly the same resolution. They are both 1920x1080, just delivered differently.

If your television can correctly deinterlace 1080i60 then you end up with the original 1080p24 signal after performing 3:2 pulldown.

This is the article you want to read - http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volum...07-part-1.html

What's confused a lot of people is calling LCD/Plasma/DLP's "720p/1080i" - all that means is it will handshake with a 720p or 1080i signal, but in order to display the full resolution of a 1080i signal you still need a 1920x1080 panel. The 720p/1080i sets are often 1366x768 panels or 1280x720. They will deinterlace a 1080i signal to 1080p then scale to the panel's native resolution.

So, a 1080p PANEL is better than a 720p/1080i panel, but in terms of resolution from a 1080p24 source, 1080i60 and 1080p24 are carrying the same resolution information.