Ed's View - The New Kid On The Block

[Ed Milbourn]

Yes, there is a new kid on the HDTV block. And it is (drum roll) -1080p. 1080p is one of those incremental improvements in HDTV to which I have been referring to in my previous articles. 1080p, of course, means 1080 horizontal lines scanned one after the other, or progressively. This is apposed to 1080i that denotes 1080 lines scanned in an interlaced fashion, with the odd number of lines scanned initially and the even number of lines then scanned and positioned, or "interlaced," between the odd lines.

So, is 1080p better than 1080i? Is it better than 720p? The answer to both of these questions is...

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