Problems with 1080p are, I believe, that it takes a ton of bandwidth, and that when the HDTV standards were drawn up, there was really nothing out there that could support 1080p. Only this year are we starting to get incredibly expensive LCD and DLP screens that can do 1080p, but no tube or plasma based sets that can do it. I think 1080p would be the better standard for things like HD-DVD, but they are going to go with 1080i as well it seems.
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Chris Heinonen @ Dec 19th 2005 12:10AM
Problems with 1080p are, I believe, that it takes a ton of bandwidth, and that when the HDTV standards were drawn up, there was really nothing out there that could support 1080p. Only this year are we starting to get incredibly expensive LCD and DLP screens that can do 1080p, but no tube or plasma based sets that can do it. I think 1080p would be the better standard for things like HD-DVD, but they are going to go with 1080i as well it seems.