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In Reply to: 1080p broadcast HDTV is a long ways away, if ever. posted by oscar on March 20, 2006 at 06:51:19:
....not 720 or 768 lines, in my opinion.Recently every new display that I've seen that has 1080 or more lines also supports 1080p.
As prices continue to drop, 1080 line displays that support 1080p will become common.
In two years, I predict that almost all $2500 and up HDTVs will have 1080 lines and can pass 1080p through their inputs.
I also predict that almost all HD players will support 1080p in two years.
It won't matter if broadcast is sticking with 720p/1080, but I think they'll change as well.
The 1080p standard may last 10 or more years..
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The reason that most 1080 line displays don't support 1080p at the input is because those manufacturers cheaped-out on the HDMI receiver chip. The HDMI spec supported 1080p60 from the start (v1.0). Manufacturers, however, chose to "count beans" and opted for the cheaper version of the chip (720p/1080i max, which, in my opinion, Silicon Image should have never made available) with their 1080 line displays. When DVI chips went to 165MHz, the excuse for not accepting a 1080p60 input with a 1080 line display ceased to exist. And that was many, many years ago.If 1080p60 input capability really wasn't that important, you wouldn't see so many new models with this feature. The fact that most 1080 line display manufacturers will actually offer 1080 line displays which will accept a 1080p input in 2006 (just one year later, after their 2005 models didn't) screams "damage control". And to think that they all knew Blu-ray was right around the corner. That's pretty shitty, if you ask me. Well, at least they can pimp their new and improved displays...
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