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<blockquote data-quote="mm1352000" data-source="post: 1124299" data-attributes="member: 82144">[USER=117536]@RonD[/USER]This is probably stating the obvious, but decoding/displaying 1080i requires more processing power than 720p for 2 reasons:<ol>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">More pixels.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">The deinterlacing.</li>
</ol>The first point is obvious; the second point, maybe not so much... but it's critical, because the requirement for deinterlacing - which is quite an intensive process, especially with the nice algorithms - can and does tip hardware over the edge (in terms of the hardware's capability to deliver smooth video).Lots of relatively cheap low end graphics chipsets still seem to target 1080p as their baseline spec. That's probably due to the ability to market such a chipset as &quot;full HD capable&quot;, &quot;Blu-ray capable&quot; etc. Lots of people buy [cheap, compact] products based on these chipsets, hoping to use them with HTPCs... and are disappointed when they find out that they can't get smooth HD TV playback.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mm1352000, post: 1124299, member: 82144"] [USER=117536]@RonD[/USER] This is probably stating the obvious, but decoding/displaying 1080i requires more processing power than 720p for 2 reasons: [LIST=1] [*]More pixels. [*]The deinterlacing. [/LIST] The first point is obvious; the second point, maybe not so much... but it's critical, because the requirement for deinterlacing - which is quite an intensive process, especially with the nice algorithms - can and does tip hardware over the edge (in terms of the hardware's capability to deliver smooth video). Lots of relatively cheap low end graphics chipsets still seem to target 1080[B]p[/B] as their baseline spec. That's probably due to the ability to market such a chipset as "full HD capable", "Blu-ray capable" etc. Lots of people buy [cheap, compact] products based on these chipsets, hoping to use them with HTPCs... and are disappointed when they find out that they can't get smooth HD TV playback. [/QUOTE]

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