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Originally Posted by David Yon
The Plasmas were gorgeous, gotta say. And if you don't care about 1080p, surprisingly affordable. The 50" 720p units were reliably at the $1500 price point. 1080p has a stiff $600-700 premium, which at 8 feet you'd really have to be splitting hairs to notice an improvement. I doubt I'd be able to pick them out double-blind.
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Hmmm... What were you watching though? If it's not something high quality on Blu-ray or HD-DVD (or similar), yeah, I doubt there's gonna be much diff even if you get closer. But I wouldn't think you need to split hairs w/ a high quality source at 8 ft though.
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The image quality difference is more likely to come from whether the TV is having to rescale the image rather than the final resolution.
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Well, seems like most programming will either be 1080i/p or 480i/p. And I would think scaling good quality 480i/p source to 1080p should yield a smoother picture than scaling to 720p, assuming a good scaler is used, but yeah, a lot of things can go "wrong" there, so can't really assuming anything.
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