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So the really uncertain part here is whether the electronics at the other end of the HDMI connector really can do 1080p or not. Perhaps [wishful thinking] some manufacturers are being careful and currently calling it "1080i only" until shipping next gen Hi-Def DVD players capable of real native 1080p output are available for testing.
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Yes, it's not the wire or HDMI connectors that determine 1080p capability but the chip set and associated circuitry that process the incoming signal. I was hoping that some manufacturers who chose not to include the 1080p circuitry at the input would at least make that stage modular so a new circuit board (or whatever) could be swapped out when they decide to include 1080p input capability. But that would defeat the whole purpose of "built in obsolescence."
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The "line" many companies are telling people is that the best source to feed one of the 1080p sets is 1080i and then just let the TV deinterlace it. The manufactuers then brag about their deinterlacing/scaling units and how you'd never know the difference, etc. etc..
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That's just technobabble to rationalize their cost-cutting methods. It might actually make sense right now when there isn't very much native 1080p source material but once 1080p sources become common no amount of rationalization is going to change the fact that forcing the 1080p source material to scale down and then scale up again will introduce two undesirable stages of processing. The signal has to be affected.
And no matter how good the internal scalers are on some of these sets,
no scaling at all is even better.
We live in interesting times....