HD-DVD won't support 1080p

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http://www.guidetohometheater.com/news/052305toshiba/

The final HD DVD specification is nearly complete, with no major disagreements remaining that might slow up the schedule (including the all-important Digital Rights Management). For those hoping for 1080p from HD DVD, don't hold your breath—Toshiba confirmed that the data is recorded on HD DVD in 1080i, and there are no plans to change that. The players have already been designed for 1080i discs, and it would take a redesign to enable them to handle 1080p discs, even if there were plans to produce them.


Not good news, esepcially now that 1080p HDTVs are just starting to become relatively affordable (about $2000 for a 37" LCD).
 
So what are the high definition DVD players I see for sale already, fake ones? I thought HDDVD was already done and released and we were just waiting for the content. I saw this Samsung one the other day for $200 CDN.
 
Those DVD players you can buy now are upconverting DVD's to HD resolutions, not playibg true HD resolution discs.
 
Guys, there's a reason for this. Think about when DVD players came out. Then a few years later....Progressive Scan DVD players came out, so we all purchased one of those too.

I'm fairly confident a Furouga (sp?) based Progressive scan HD-DVD player will hit the market, just not at first. It's all a money thing.

All those DVDs you're watching now are encoded at 480i, they're simply being de-interlaced via progressive scan.

One more thing, those 1080p sets will also de-interlace 1080i video, you have nothing to worry about there, except maybe the quality of the deinterlacer. I'm still with Blu-Ray though.
 
Blu-Ray discs hold a ton more space than HD-DVD. They already have 4-layer discs that can hold 100GBs.

1080p over 1080i would require twice the disc space. This would never be a problem with Blu-Ray. I'm not sure about HD-DVD, but I know for a fact that Blu-Ray has DolbyDigitalPlus in their specs (can we say 5Mbps just for audio alone).
 
As someone earlier mentioned, if you have a good quality deinterlacer than 1080i basically becomes 1080p.... that being said obviously I would prefer true 1080p but not if it means 2 seperate incompatible standards.
 
NissanNazi said:
Will I have to buy ANOTHER new HDTV to support 1080p or will my current TV that supports 1080i work?
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Since HD-DVD won't support 1080p, i assume 1080i is the standard.
 
NissanNazi said:
Will I have to buy ANOTHER new HDTV to support 1080p or will my current TV that supports 1080i work?
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Very few TVs currently support 1080p, in fact I beleave only the really high end ones are starting to. Imho it is more of a future proofing messure than anything else to support 1080p.

No matter what way to look it, Blu-ray is the better tech here. Sadly though the best tech doesn't always win in the HT world :sad:
 
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Lemon said:
Link to a HDTV that supports 1080p? Don't think i've seen one before.
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Sharp,Hitachi and Samsung have some LCDs that support it and I beleave Samsung also has a 56" DLP coming up that will support it.

Also Toshiba annouced 3 upcoming TVs with support 1080phere
 
Trunks0 said:
Vary (don't you mean very?) few TVs currently support 1080p, in fact I beleave only the really high end ones are starting to. Imho it is more of a future proofing messure than anything else to support 1080p.
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Future proofing the next gen DVD disc/video standards is very important. How long have we had NTSC?

Sure, given the state of technology it is very doubtful that HD-DVD (whatever format wins) will be around as long as NTSC was *shudder* but the specs need to aim high.
 
1080p isnt that huge of an issue. I mean have you seen 720p or 1080i? Both look fantastic! Obviously things will start going 1080p but it surely wont make your TV useless if it only does 1080i or 720p.... its the beauty of scaling.
 
Is it a huge deal to not have in a TV? Not really. However having the breathing room for it in the next video distribution standard is a fairly important thing to have imho.
 
I think HD-dvd & 1080i will be fine if they aren't charging a arm and a leg for the players. Progressive players hit the market after the intial take off of the tech, not a big deal at all.


Anyway saw this on the link you posted

"Addendum and Comment
As I've discussed before, expect to see nearly all manufacturers attempting to top each other this fall in their promotion of 1080p. In particular, you'll hear claims that 1080p has twice the resolution of 720p. That's true, but it can be misleading. None of the rear-projection 1080p sets announced so far will accept a 1080p signal, even if one were available. They will only accept HD in 1080i and 720p."
 
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