True 1080 capabilty

1080 comes in several flaviors.
1080i/60 fields/30 frames persecond.
1080p/24 frames persecond.
1080p/30 frames per second.
1080p/60 frames per second.
The only 1080p I have seen is 24fps.
Digital HDTVs (LCD, plasma, DLP, LCoS) have a native resoultion. A DLP/LCoS set that has a native resoultion of 1080i(1980x1080)will rescale 720p to 1080i.
A HDTV with a native resoultion of 720p(1280x720) will rescale a 1080i to 720p. This is the digital world.
Sony is over flowing with tech specs on there products.
PS3 will be 1080 capable?? Which 1080??? Don't know. John


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I have had a chance to do more reading and saw a 60" Sony LCoS XRB 1080p set last night.
The sets that say they are 1080p, what does this realy mean??? At this point is time I belive it means that the TV set has a frame buffer that captues both fields of an 1080i signal and then dispalys it as a progressive image.

This is not a new concept, when you capture analog video or DV to a PC this is done in the capure process.
When you watch a DVD on a PC this is also done.
Any DVD player that has progressive outputs also does this.
Back in the mid '80s Toshiba had 32" TV with a frame buffer and would display the analog image as progressive instead of interlaced.
OK back to the Sony, yes the picture was excellent, I realy like the LCoS sets, the frame buffer in this set makes the picture better on fast moving scens. On a slow moving or static sceens one would be hard pressed to tell the difference between this an equal 1080i set.
But video is all about motion!!!
The term "TRUE 1080" is marketing F.U.D. as there are 4 TRUE 1080 formats, for the USA. John