Think about whut you're doin man!

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Did you hear about the bigamist who got run over by a car?
The autopsy showed he had also been poisoned.
Seems one wife didn't know what the other was doing.
And that seems to be whats happening with 1080p AND BLU RAY.
I posted on another section that plasma was dead (which it is,
BTW) and have gleeened some interesting info among all of the brickbats, insults , references to my ancestors, etc.
Mainly that a lot of Plasma buyers are buying 720P.
And then a lot come over HERE and talk about buying a Blu ray!
WHATS GOING ON?
Apparently they have bought into the "truism" that it "doesn't make much difference".
Well, sorry to say this BUT IT DOES.
For one thing, if you have 1080p then you also get 24fps,
which eliminates 3/2 pulldown, completely doing away with artifacts
associated with trying to show a 24fps movie on a device that is 60hz.
And then there is deinterlacing.
Aint no expert but its has to be better to just deinterlace 1080i to 1080p
instead of deinterlacing it and then rescaling it to 720p.
NOT to mention that 1080p has 340 more scan lines than 720p.
Lets face it, most on this board are going to buy Blu players sooner
or later, and yes they look fantastic on a 720p set.
But they look simply amazing on a 1080p.
Trust me, it does make a difference.
So why buy a set that will be around awhile (even a short lived plasma will be around five to ten years) and "lock" yourself into 720p?
I bought a 720p for valid reasons, it was still a 1080i world, and right after 1080p started becoming more prevalent, in other words I got "caught".
Well, I have recently fixed that problem with a 1080p, and trust me, it was worth every penny, really.
It will last until OLED becomes affordable.
Just consider the Blu issue before you buy a set , let that figure into your considerations.
A TV lasts a long time, really, and Blu IS JUST GETTING STARTED.
Think of how much it will improve, look at how much DVD has improved.
Do you really want to lock yourself into a resolution that will hobble your Blu player and keep you from getting the most outta it?
When buying a set these days, consider one of the main
sources of programming you will be using(at least for awhile)
BLU RAY.
A 1080p WILL BE MORE EXPENSIVE, but it would be wise and do what Richard Pryor said to do in the movie "silver streak.
PAY THE MAN