I agree that while most programming isn't in HD yet, the upscaling to 1080i is pretty good in most cases and is visably better than the 720 TV's I've seen (they all seemed to have pixelation issues). However some sat-tv channels are so compressed to hell that they look like crap on any set. All things said, I think a full HD TV capable of 1080p is kind of the entry line into HD TV. I don't think 720p TV's should have really been sold at all, but were pushed and sold anyway. Fust, Samsung, all those guys have to eat I guess... Anyway, full HD TV's are getting so cheap now that the 720p sets can go join the tube sets in the technicolor graveyard....

Hi,

You have to take the contrast specs with a pinch of salt, black is measured with the set turned off & white with the set turned on & the image brightened up. If you take a reading of a black & white chess board the best sets dont even have a contrast range of 1000:1 . Specs can be 1,000,000:1 or more depending the amount off 'cool aid' they were drinking at the time.

The most issues come from up & down ressing pictures, so an original 720p programme will probably look better on a 720p native screen. Due to TV companies saving money lots of scaling will occur & way too much compression for my liking

For my liking, I only watch at 1600 --anything less is pixely for me. Unfortunately, that leaves me with essentially just video games.

I remember rocking Space Invaders on my Atari 2600. That was like what, 30p?


...sh*t, am I that old?

hahaha--I believe that was around 192, although it was actually limited by the screen's capability. Theoretically, by design could output an unlimited lines of vertical resolution, but was limited by buffer RAM-from what I remember back in the day.