Is 1080p overkill for a 32" bedroom TV?

"(PeteCresswell)" wrote in message
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Per Metspitzer:

720p is better than 1080i
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-JXfyvlPh0

That was pretty good. Thanks.

One of my takeaways was that I should not bother with anything
where the rez ends in "i"....
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Most everything gets converted to 1080p at some point.

"Stewart" wrote:

Most everything gets converted to 1080p at some point.

Meaning, the quality of your display is the most important factor. Something
nobody ever mentions is the native resolution of the display, and on a lot of
them, it's 768. So, everything gets converted to that.

Per (PeteCresswell):
Our 32" Vizio XVT323S claims tb 1080i.

Oops.... shb 1080P
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On 7/2/2012 2:06 AM PT, J G Miller typed:

Interesting. I wonder why.

In general, people live in smaller houses and thus have
smaller rooms in Europe, so they sit closer to the TV.

And from what I understand, houses in Japan tend to be
even smaller again.

Also people will generally be buying TV screen sizes
smaller (32, 40, and tops 46 inch) than in North America,
because there is just not room for a 65 inch screen.

But why 1080p though?
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On Monday, July 2nd, 2012, at 06:57:10h -0700, Ant asked:

But why 1080p though?

Simple -- because people want to watch 1080p content
on their screens or connect their computer with video
output at 1080p just like they do on their 20-22 inch
monitor.

On 02/07/2012 14:57, Ant wrote:


But why 1080p though?



i would have thought that at this point in time the cost of making a
1080p set and a 720p set are pretty much the same.

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On 02/07/2012 10:34, Metspitzer wrote:


What exactly do you watch at 1080p? I have had my 50 for two years
and I am still not sure I have seen anything in 1080p. I don't do PPV
or BluRay. I do have a WDTV live player. There are mkv files that
claim to be 1080p, but I am not so sure.
There were even some avi files claiming 1080p. The files are huge.
The one exception would have been maybe Tron. It was a noticeable
improvement over 720p, but nothing else I have watched seemed better
than 720p. History Channel has a series called "The Universe" Those
came labeled 1080p, but since no HD channel I know of uses 1080p I
don't see how.


1080i tv broadcasts need a 1080p set to show their full detail.


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On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:37:12 +0100, the dog from that film you saw wrote:

i would have thought that at this point in time the cost of making a
1080p set and a 720p set are pretty much the same.

Indeed so, but the manufacturer/store can and will charge more for the
"premium" 1080p model, hence why there will be a preference in some
markets for there to be 1080p models even at the smaller screen sizes.

the dog from that film you saw wrote:
On 02/07/2012 10:34, Metspitzer wrote:


What exactly do you watch at 1080p? I have had my 50 for two years
and I am still not sure I have seen anything in 1080p. I don't do PPV
or BluRay. I do have a WDTV live player. There are mkv files that
claim to be 1080p, but I am not so sure.
There were even some avi files claiming 1080p. The files are huge.
The one exception would have been maybe Tron. It was a noticeable
improvement over 720p, but nothing else I have watched seemed better
than 720p. History Channel has a series called "The Universe" Those
came labeled 1080p, but since no HD channel I know of uses 1080p I
don't see how.


1080i tv broadcasts need a 1080p set to show their full detail.




I am unsure of that - many/most ( can't defend that quantitatively )
720p sets I have seen support 1080i. No clue if that's purely the
interface spec or the actual dot-count of the screen.

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On 02/07/2012 18:25, Les Cargill wrote:



1080i tv broadcasts need a 1080p set to show their full detail.




I am unsure of that - many/most ( can't defend that quantitatively )
720p sets I have seen support 1080i. No clue if that's purely the
interface spec or the actual dot-count of the screen.

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Les Cargill



it's a fact!
while a 720p set can accept a 1080i input, it can't deinterlace it to
1080 lines of info like a 1080p screen will.
remember - plasma and lcd screens are progressive, not interlaced
regardless of their resolution.


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