when will a REAL HDTV projection unit come out?

Hi All,

Does anyone know of a company that plans to manufacture (at any price) a
TRUE HDTV projection system.
I have looked at RCA, Sony, Hitachi, Panasonic, JVC and other websites only
to find that EVERY system has a vertical resolution
of only 720 lines (they merely downgrade the 1080i signal). RCA briefly
produced a CRT style set that could display 1080 lines for real, but since
then, not a single manufacturer is producing a set (of any type including
plasma) that has a display resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels.

My PC monitor can display this resolution, why the hell can't we get REAL
1080i High Def on a consumer set?

Dave

You should have said 1080p instead of 1080i. But yeah I would be curious how much a CRT
HDTV would cost that can do 1080x1920. If anyone knows which models if any can do that
right now I would like to know which one just because I'm curious. I'm not going to buy one,
because I'm a young adult and don't have the need or money. 1080x1920 is full HDTV
resolution. I know the HDTV rear projection my parents have can only do 1080i which is a less
expensive format that still qualifies as HDTV. Its funny that sometimes people say that 1080i is
the highest HDTV resolution but 1080p at 1080x1920 is. UPN even said star trek enterprise
would be in he highest HDTV format which was some format based on 1080i. I realized that
the compression to do HDTV isn't really even hear yet. H.264 codec is really needed to get
hdtv resolution (full or not) without using too much bandwidth. On another side note I think some
PC games should be developed with HDTV in mind. If console games games can be built with
hdtv in mind and consoles cost less than pc's and HDTV is very expensive, then people that are
willing to spend money on a pc are MORE likely to have the money to spend on an HDTV. This
does not consider the fact of wether or not a game would be well suited for a large screen of
high resolution but maybe lesser sharpness or dpi.

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m...

On another side note I think some
PC games should be developed with HDTV in mind. If console games games can
be built with
hdtv in mind and consoles cost less than pc's and HDTV is very expensive,
then people that are
willing to spend money on a pc are MORE likely to have the money to spend
on an HDTV. This
does not consider the fact of wether or not a game would be well suited
for a large screen of
high resolution but maybe lesser sharpness or dpi.

Most PC games for the last 5 years or more have supported high resolutions
(not necessarily a particular HD format or 16:9, but high resolution).
Nowadays it's standard for PC games to support various resolutions from
640x480 to around 1600x1200 (800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, etc.), and good
PC graphic cards can really drive them at these resolutions with decent
performance (and often with full-screen anti-aliasing, anisotropic
filtering, etc. for a really beautiful picture). Plus don't forget that
these are all progressive-scan resolutions, not the 1/2 resolution you'd get
with interlace, and that the color is full resolution, not the 1/2 or less
resolution in each direction with TV or even HDTV. 1024x768 is sort of a
standard base resolution these days (no reason to go any lower unless you
have a really old graphic card). PC games also tend to include significantly
higher resolution textures than console games (or they would look blurry at
the high resolutions they are generally played at). Modern 3D graphic cards
generally have as much as 2-4x as much memory as an entire console (typical
these days is 64-256MB on the graphic card alone), very high fill rates, and
high color quality.

In general, PC games are much MORE suited to high resolutions than console
games, and are far more likely to have such support built in. I'm sure in
the future some PC games might start explicitly supporting 16:9 HDTV modes,
but most people don't have their PC hooked up to a TV, and wouldn't want to
play using mouse and keyboard when sitting on the sofa! (And if you're going
to degrade the image by displaying it on a TV, and use controls that are
inferior for many game types, why not just play it on a console in the first
place?)

1080i is the highest broadcast resolution under the ATSC standards. You
could have 1080...30 or 24fps/p but that is not higher resolution....It IS
a lower frame rate and more susceptible to flicker/artifacts. There is NO
1080p/60fps standard for broadcast television as adopted by the FCC...and
you will not likely live long enough to ever see such a standard...eats up
WAY too much bandwidth.

For spatial resolution 1080i is the highest. For temporal resolution, 720p
has the highest resolution. (and it is at 60p)


wrote in message
m...
You should have said 1080p instead of 1080i. But yeah I would be curious
how much a CRT
HDTV would cost that can do 1080x1920. If anyone knows which models if any
can do that
right now I would like to know which one just because I'm curious. I'm not
going to buy one,
because I'm a young adult and don't have the need or money. 1080x1920 is
full HDTV
resolution. I know the HDTV rear projection my parents have can only do
1080i which is a less
expensive format that still qualifies as HDTV. Its funny that sometimes
people say that 1080i is
the highest HDTV resolution but 1080p at 1080x1920 is. UPN even said star
trek enterprise
would be in he highest HDTV format which was some format based on 1080i. I
realized that
the compression to do HDTV isn't really even hear yet. H.264 codec is
really needed to get
hdtv resolution (full or not) without using too much bandwidth. On another
side note I think some
PC games should be developed with HDTV in mind. If console games games can
be built with
hdtv in mind and consoles cost less than pc's and HDTV is very expensive,
then people that are
willing to spend money on a pc are MORE likely to have the money to spend
on an HDTV. This
does not consider the fact of wether or not a game would be well suited
for a large screen of
high resolution but maybe lesser sharpness or dpi.

"Curmudgeon" wrote in message
...
1080i is the highest broadcast resolution under the ATSC standards. You
could have 1080...30 or 24fps/p but that is not higher resolution....It
IS
a lower frame rate and more susceptible to flicker/artifacts.

This isn't really true. Yes, 24 or 30p is not going to show motion as well
because the lower framerate will make things more jerky (though if the
source is a movie, it is already only 24fps). However, it will look
noticeably sharper and clearer than 60i, and have significantly less
artifacts. It will also not affect flicker, since the screen is still
refreshing at 60Hz.

There is NO
1080p/60fps standard for broadcast television as adopted by the FCC...

This is a shame, and part of the problem with HDTV: the standards were both
too ambitious and not ambitious enough. They didn't really get it "just
right" on anything. Almost everything done in HDTV is significantly, and
unnecessarily, compromised in one way or another. It is possible to get
pretty good quality, but at a higher price than should be needed to achieve
that level of quality. And for the price, had they waited just a few years
for the technology to catch up, yes, we COULD have 1080 x 60p, right now.

and you will not likely live long enough to ever see such a
standard...eats up
WAY too much bandwidth.

Only assuming they stick with an obsolete compression standard. It is
possible today, but not using MPEG2.

For spatial resolution 1080i is the highest. For temporal resolution,
720p
has the highest resolution. (and it is at 60p)

This is a disingenous way to put it. In fact, 1080i does not always have the
highest effective "spatial" resolution. Any area experiencing motion
(particularly vertical) displays only 1/2 the effective vertical resolution.
This gives an effective vertical resolution much of the time of only about
540 lines. And 1080i in real life only uses 1440 resolution horizontally. So
in many circumstances, 720p DOES have higher spatial resolution (1280x720
compared to 1440x540).

1080i does have the highest spatial resolution for absolutely still
material, but any motion will defeat this advantage. In addition, it
presents an easily visible (and highly annoying, in my opinion) "interlace
flicker" characteristic even in still material (which is what makes it look
so "TV" or "video"-like--it looks like the screen is alive or something, not
at all the "like looking through a window" characteristic that we'd all like
to see).

Interlace just has too many tradeoffs: you can eliminate the interlace
artifacts entirely, but only by halving both the resolution and the
framerate (display 1080i with only 540 scan lines and at 30fps progressive
scan, and all interlace artifacts should disappear). (You can also eliminate
them by backing up far enough from the screen that you wouldn't be able to
tell the difference between 1440x1080 and 720x540...)

On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 05:49:15 GMT, "Matthew Vaughan"
wrote:

"Curmudgeon" wrote in message
. ..
1080i is the highest broadcast resolution under the ATSC standards. You
could have 1080...30 or 24fps/p but that is not higher resolution....It
IS
a lower frame rate and more susceptible to flicker/artifacts.

This isn't really true. Yes, 24 or 30p is not going to show motion as well
because the lower framerate will make things more jerky (though if the
source is a movie, it is already only 24fps). However, it will look
noticeably sharper and clearer than 60i, and have significantly less
artifacts. It will also not affect flicker, since the screen is still
refreshing at 60Hz.

There is NO
1080p/60fps standard for broadcast television as adopted by the FCC...

This is a shame, and part of the problem with HDTV: the standards were both
too ambitious and not ambitious enough. They didn't really get it "just
right" on anything. Almost everything done in HDTV is significantly, and
unnecessarily, compromised in one way or another. It is possible to get
pretty good quality, but at a higher price than should be needed to achieve
that level of quality. And for the price, had they waited just a few years
for the technology to catch up, yes, we COULD have 1080 x 60p, right now.

and you will not likely live long enough to ever see such a
standard...eats up
WAY too much bandwidth.

Only assuming they stick with an obsolete compression standard. It is
possible today, but not using MPEG2.

For spatial resolution 1080i is the highest. For temporal resolution,
720p
has the highest resolution. (and it is at 60p)

This is a disingenous way to put it. In fact, 1080i does not always have the
highest effective "spatial" resolution. Any area experiencing motion
(particularly vertical) displays only 1/2 the effective vertical resolution.
This gives an effective vertical resolution much of the time of only about
540 lines. And 1080i in real life only uses 1440 resolution horizontally. So
in many circumstances, 720p DOES have higher spatial resolution (1280x720
compared to 1440x540).

1080i does have the highest spatial resolution for absolutely still
material, but any motion will defeat this advantage. In addition, it
presents an easily visible (and highly annoying, in my opinion) "interlace
flicker" characteristic even in still material (which is what makes it look
so "TV" or "video"-like--it looks like the screen is alive or something, not
at all the "like looking through a window" characteristic that we'd all like
to see).

This is very subjective. I have never experienced any flicker.
Thumper


Interlace just has too many tradeoffs: you can eliminate the interlace
artifacts entirely, but only by halving both the resolution and the
framerate (display 1080i with only 540 scan lines and at 30fps progressive
scan, and all interlace artifacts should disappear). (You can also eliminate
them by backing up far enough from the screen that you wouldn't be able to
tell the difference between 1440x1080 and 720x540...)


To reply drop XYZ in address

In article ,
Thumper writes:

1080i does have the highest spatial resolution for absolutely still
material, but any motion will defeat this advantage. In addition, it
presents an easily visible (and highly annoying, in my opinion) "interlace
flicker" characteristic even in still material (which is what makes it look
so "TV" or "video"-like--it looks like the screen is alive or something, not
at all the "like looking through a window" characteristic that we'd all like
to see).

This is very subjective. I have never experienced any flicker.
Thumper

I am VERY sensitive to flicker, and the flicker due to properly
encoded 1080i should be nil. All too often, there is a mistake
made by neophytes that interlace filtering must always be constant.
Interlace filtering NEED NOT be a sledgehammer.

Actually, interlace filtering should be a dynamic scheme, where
twitter is reduced, but also the vertical resolution isn't severely
impacted. Such DYNAMIC filtering is commonly done for dynamic
combs in NTSC (PAL) TV sets, and is done in other applications
also. Even a good MPEG encoder will do various kinds of filtering
to avoid artifacts.

If there is 'flicker' on a 1080i presentation, it means that the
equipment isn't being used correctly, the equipment might be older
with less technology, or other 'excuses' might apply. Given
good 'processing', the stairstepping effects coming from the
natural aliasing of the sampled system should be approximately
as distracting as the interlace twitter.

People also forget that the 720p systems ALSO need vertical
filtering to avoid ugly aliasing effects. The amount of artifact
free resolution isn't as high as the 720p designation might
superficially imply.

John

"Thumper" wrote in message
...

presents an easily visible (and highly annoying, in my opinion)
"interlace
flicker" characteristic even in still material (which is what makes it
look
so "TV" or "video"-like--it looks like the screen is alive or something,
not
at all the "like looking through a window" characteristic that we'd all
like
to see).

This is very subjective. I have never experienced any flicker.

You may have a low visual sensitivity to motion and detail. I believe that I
have very high sensitivity to visual motion, because low computer monitor
refresh rates, as well as interlace, both bother me a lot more than they
seem to bother most people. Or you may watch TV from far enough away that
you would not be able to tell the difference if it were progressive scan
with 1/2 the resolution (that would be the only way for me to stop noticing
it). Or you may have a LCD or plasma or DLP that de-interlaces everything
before display anyway (it doesn't remove all interlace artifacts, but
substantially reduces the flicker in still scenes).

"John S. Dyson" wrote in message
...

If there is 'flicker' on a 1080i presentation, it means that the
equipment isn't being used correctly, the equipment might be older
with less technology, or other 'excuses' might apply. Given
good 'processing', the stairstepping effects coming from the
natural aliasing of the sampled system should be approximately
as distracting as the interlace twitter.

I agree with your other points, except to say that the display itself causes
a form of small-scale flicker that can't be removed (unless the phosphors
have a longer decay time, in which case you'd probably get increased
smearing).

Matthew Vaughan wrote:

"Matthew L. Martin" wrote in message
s.com...

Please do some research. 1080i is not equivalent to 540p. 1080i has
considerably more vertical resolution than 540p even in fast action
sequences.


This is not really true. With motion (particularly vertical motion), the
effective vertical resolution of an interlaced image is cut nearly in half.

I have never seen a claim that the Kell factor drops as low as .50 in
any scene. Do you have a source that supports that claim?

Matthew

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