Is a 1080p player better than a 1080i player?
– If you have a 720p or 1080i input display: 1080i player is okay, 1080p player is no better – If you have a 1080p display that properly deinterlaces: 1080i player is okay, 1080p player is no better – If you have a 1080p display that does not properly deinterlace: You will benefit from a 1080p HD player as it will circumvent your display’s inability to properly deinterlace. HD DVD and Blu-ray movies are encoded as 24fps progressive. When a 1080i player processes a frame, the progressive frame is converted to interlaced fields and these are sent to the display. Modern LCD, Plasma, and DLP TVs and Projectors all generate progressive output no matter what the input. So if the display receives a frame composed of interlaced fields, it recombines them and generates a progressive frame. If the display does this correctly, then the resulting frame will be exactly the same as if the frame had been recieved as progressive. Again, the result will be bit for bit exactly the same. If the display c
