1080p display with inverse telecine

[docferdie]

Most of the talk on these boards has been whether or not a set accepts true 1080p (60 fps) signals. The reason being that HD-DVD will likely offer that resolution. On the otherhand what content is actually available that takes advantage of the increased framerate of 1080p? As far as I know movies still run at 24 fps so the only advantage of natively accepting 1080p is for computer games and the PS3.
What I'm more interested in is a 1080p display that does proper inverse telecine of 1080i content. Over an all digital connection it should be technically impossible to distinguish between a film source (24 fps) transmitted at 1080i (30 fps) to one transmitted at 1080p (60 fps) when viewed on a 1080p display assuming proper inverse telecine to reconstruct the original 24 frames of content are employed.

The point of this rant is that I would like to know which of the current 1080p displays does correct inverse telecine of 1080i content. This would let you enjoy the 1080p display with current content even without support for 1080p input.

 

[BMXTRIX]

While I don't have a solid answer for you on that - and it IS a good question.

My push for 1080p and HD discs is not 1080/60p but 1080/24p. The display should have the ability to refresh at a multiple of 24hz. (48, 72, etc.)

As far as I know 1080/60p is not clearly been introduced as a standard within the HD disc category, but I know that 1080/24p is on the books to be a standard, so films will be but onto the discs at their native 24 frames per second and a display potentially may be able to show the film at the original 24 frames.

I think the goal would be for there to currently be a 1080p display that operates at 72hz that does 3:3 pull down. Deinterlaces the frames of a 1080i film, then shows it 3 times in a row.

You just gave me some excellent information actually - thanks! Since 1080i, with film based content, offers 100% of the full image of a 24fps film, then 1080p really does have the ability to show all of a film and 1080/24p just has the ability of utilizing the lower bit rate required to increase the overall film quality.

Thanks!

 

[soundsfine]

I think the new Mitsubishi 37" LCD does it correctly. They call it something like Plush1080p.