Kougar said:
Better question might be if you know of any TV service that offers 1080P.
That wasn't the question ;-)
No one expects true 1080p from cable providers at this point in time, and even then, the content is going to be rather scarce. Even on a lot of my HD channels, SD content plays most of the time, so it will be a while before we see 1080p truly supported. Plus, I am not sure if the tech is in place to deliver the bandwidth required for this (it would be like three times as bandwidth-heavy as 720p).
In general, Blu-ray is about 30 - 40Mbit/s... and I'm not sure we'd ever see that from a cable provider. If we did, it would probably be with an even higher resolution. Again, it's hard to say, and I may be way off base here.
Psi* said:
I would like to think that I could tell the difference between 720p & 1020P, but I wouldn't be surprised if I couldn't. I think that a lot depends on someone's eyes and hope that a person with 20/20 & needing no correction of any kind, hopefully will be able to tell more easily that someone with astigmatism
I don't think that really matters. I don't have 20/20 but I still think I could tell a difference. It's really hard without actually having a 720p and 1080p display side-by-side, because 720p would still look really good, given it's essentially a down-scaled 1080p image. Maybe THAT'S why some people couldn't really tell the difference. The movie being played in the original article there wasn't 720p, but a down-scaled 1080p.