well actually your wrong becaust the newer panasonic plasmas have anti-glare screens and they have no glare.

 

dont plasmas also have the possibility of burnin too. i use my lcd for ps3, computer, tv channels with logos and so on an ive always heard how plasmas will burn in an image that has been displayed for a long time just like how crts do.

and as far as 1080p vs 1080i vs 720p, anything 1080 will look clearer and crisper than 720 because of the greater amount of pixels per inch (assuming these screens are the same size)

anything that is "p" should be more fluid motion due to how it displays the full image every fps.

therefore 1080p should be the best looking because it has the best of both worlds. (not including 120hz capability)

i prefer sony or samsung lcds, but if you only need a 30" or less, viewsonic makes some really nice ones and dell and samsung have 2 or 3 models of 30" lcds with 2560x1600 resolution!!!!!

 

So I guess I'm the only one who went the DLP route huh?

Two of my best friends are in the business of uber high-end audio/visual and in talking with them of course they recommended Plasma above everything else BUT for what I wanted I was able to get a 56" Samsung DLP (5687) about a yr ago for just under $1,800. They calibrated it for me too for free, which most people don't realize they need to do to get the best picture out of the TV. I now host all the big games, TV events, and Movie nights

 

those are a great way to get inexpensive, high quality picture..... but you have to replace the bulbs in those ($200-300) and i had a friend whose dlp tv broke after 3 yrs out of warranty.

 

what do you mean calibrated? is that have to be done on every tv?

 

Yes it should be done. it makes the tv picture look even better than out of the box.

ALSO 1080i DOES NOT LOOK BETTER THAN 720P. 1080p looks alot better than both of them.

 

1080i has almost double the resolution as 720p. 1080i an 1080p are both 1920x1080 resolution. 720p is 1280x720.
the only thing 720p has better is that it is progressive not interlaced, so it looks more fluid and can display fast moving images clearer.

i have both and i can definately say that while watching a game on a directv hd box, the 1080i looks better than 720p, even on a bigger sized tv

 

i sell them and we have compared them alot an they are almost the same....

1080i does not have double the resolution of 720p. Ask anyone the difference who is in the field of tvs;etc and they will tell you that 1080i and 720p r the exact same. thats why most tvs are 720p or 1080i and thats the current standard.

Wiki: Some broadcasters use 720p50/60 as their primary high-definition format; others use the 1080i standard. While 720p presents a complete 720 line frame to the viewer between 24 to 60 times each second (depending on the format), 1080i presents the picture as 50 or 60 partial 540 line "fields" per second (24 complete 1080-line fields, or "24p" is included in the ATSC standard though) which the human eye or a deinterlacer built into the display device must visually and temporally combine to build a 1080 line picture - in CRT type display. To get all 1080 interlaced lines to appear on the screen at the same time on a progressive high-definition display, the processor within the HD set has to weave together both 540-line segments to form the full-resolution frame. It does so by holding the first field in its memory, receiving the next field, then electronically knitting the two fields together. The combined fields are displayed at once as a complete 1080p frame. The main tradeoff between the two is that 1080i shows more detail than 720p for a stationary shot of a subject at the expense of a lower effective refresh rate and the introduction of interlace artifacts during motion.

While 1080i has more scan lines than 720p, they do not translate directly into greater vertical resolution. Interlaced video is usually blurred vertically (filtered) to prevent twitter. Twitter is a flickering of fine horizontal lines in a scene, lines that are so fine that they only occur on a single scan line. Because only half the scan lines are drawn per field, fine horizontal lines may be missing entirely from one of the fields, causing them to flicker. Images are blurred vertically to ensure that no detail is only one scan line in height. Therefore, 1080i material does not deliver 1080 scan lines of vertical resolution.

Basically 1080i is better for stationary pictures. Which is not better for example a football game.

 

how come then, if i run a program on a computer displayed on a 720p screen, i can only run up to 1280x720 resolution, but on a 1080i tv, i can set it to 1920x1080 resolution?

 

the resolution on all tvs and monitors is diff..... Some tvs that are 720p are 1440 x 900... that doesnt matter.... There are monitors that go over 1080 lines horizontally...

To the human eye 720p and 1080i is totally the same. Thats also why they are both the same price and why most "HD" tvs are compatible with both signals.

thats like saying all 1920x1080 tvs regardless of p or i is the same.

1080i and 720p give the same picture quality.