True 1080p

September 25, 2005 9:46 PM

Home theater geeks: when will true 1080p big screen TVs be on the market at a consumer price point?

Definitions:

big screen: over 50" diagonal on 16:9 aspect ratio.

consumer price point: $5,000 or so.

true 1080p: able to accept, process and losslessly output a 1080p source input (i.e., HD-DVD, Blu-Ray, 24p camcorders), as opposed to merely creating a 1080p output by deinterlacing 1080i source or upscaling 720p source.

posted by MattD to Technology (6 answers total)

You can check out the discussion at AVS Forum. The consensus seems to be that most manufacturers will have 65-80" 1080p displays by the end of next year. At what price point? No one is really sure, and it may depend on how sales go until that point.

BTW, de-interlacing 1080i gives you 540p, not 1080p.
posted by deadfather at 9:59 PM on September 25, 2005

And while no one knows what the MSRPs will be, they certainly ain't debuting south of ten grand, and probably won't cross that line before 2007, IMO. Joe 6pack is quite satisified with his 60" DLP, and he won't be sparking any price wars on the 1080p front--esp. not before we even know which new DVD format to rebuy The Matrix in.
posted by deadfather at 10:14 PM on September 25, 2005

50", MSRP $4K. I think they're supposed to be out before Annual Gift Man Day.

Whether it'll accept a true 30 or 24fps 1080p signal I dunno. That seems to be the point people are curious about, since AFAIK there aren't any sources like that around yet.

BTW, de-interlacing 1080i gives you 540p, not 1080p

Doesn't deinterlacing 60fps 1080i give you 30fps 1080p?
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 10:40 PM on September 25, 2005

s/any/many
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 10:42 PM on September 25, 2005

BTW, de-interlacing 1080i gives you 540p, not 1080p.

Not true. A decent algorithm will give you a 1080p30 in static areas (and 540p60 in moving areas), which visually shouldn't be much different to true 1080p.
posted by cillit bang at 5:06 AM on September 26, 2005

Response by poster: Thanks for the replies. My 56" DLP is on death's door (bad colorwheel) and I am trying to figure out whether I can hold out for true 1080p. Doesn't look like it...
posted by MattD at 8:42 AM on September 26, 2005