Which is better for watching television? 720p or 1080i? 1080 progressive scan is not a option

Which is better for watching television? 720p or 1080i? 1080 progressive scan is not a option.

1080i
This should be self explanatory, no?

Whichever one has the higher bitrate

but isn't interlaced worse?

If you have to ask this it doesn't matter.

Not for a

720P.

1080i

God damn, you're a retard

I will take 720p over 1080i any day

You're only getting 540 lines written vs 720
t.Google

each field is 540 lines, yes, but in these cases:
- low/no motion
- 30fps (on 60i) or 25fps (on 50i) content
you get the full 1080 lines of resolution

Its still interlaced, which makes anything with a lot of motion unwatchable

not if you;
- are using a CRT
- are using a good deinterlacer

>watching television
If you are a regular television user then your prefrontal cortex is already fucked up beyond any repair, the difference in resolution makes no difference

Get the fuck out low iq normie

Most if not all cable boxes don't have deinterlacing

And are CRTs even immune to interlacing?

>And are CRTs even immune to interlacing?
CRTs can draw to the screen in a natively interlaced manner, interlacing artifacts are very minimal even without deinterlacing
that was the original point

1080i handbraked to deinterlaced 1080p > 720p, always

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replace that projector already

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Yeah, just deinterlace 1080i and keep it 1920x1080

Depends on what you like best.
Want higher resolution (and thus sharper, clearer view)? Or do you want motion to look more nice and flowing?
Motion looks better on a progressive format.
But the interlaced one will give you a bigger resolution.

>tfw too intelligent to watch TV

>if you watch TV you are a low iq normie
sounds like you had fun growing up

yea, instead of watching TV, I opted to have fun

jacking your dick off to porno mags?

playing games with friends

>being a manchild
I was mature and watched mature anime like Naruto on toonami

>shitposting on Sup Forums
If you are a regular Sup Forums shitposter then your prefrontal cortex is already fucked up beyond any repair, the difference in post quality makes no difference

Get the fuck out retard

Interlaced gives you a lower effective resolution when displayed on a non-interlacing monitor

1080i is basically upscaled 720p

Wouldn't 720p be better? Prove me wrong Sup Forums

who says 1080i is interlaced and not telecined?
modern tv shows are now produced at 24/1.001 fps, same as films always are.

LOL

why do you think H.265 did remove any possibility of retarded interlacing?

why do you think it did?

hacks do not count.

If we're talking about television as in actual broadcasted TV then 1080i ignore anyone saying "720p!" they are idiots

1080i hands down. It offers higher resolution and with enough detail present deinterlacing doesn't produce as much artifacts.

Huh last I heard the standard only opted for simple frame flagging rather than encoding each field separately like with mpeg2 or h264.

That would be really stupid. 1080i looks dramatically better than 720p for 24 and 30 fps video.

If you're watching a lot of sports it's a different story.

well then don't use a shit monitor

I'm glad Sup Forums is (mostly) smart enough to understand interlacing is not evil and 1080i is "real" 1080 lines of detail.

I used to watch blu-rays in 1080i on a Sony XS-955 Super Fine Pitch CRT and it was the best image I've ever seen.

Want to know a little cool thing you can do with some CRTs?

Many professional video monitors like the Sony PVM series will list their maximum resolution a number of lines. This will be 500, 600, or 800 usually depending on the age of the monitor.

Now, most of them time people see these monitors and assume they are Standard Definition only. Sometimes referred to as 15khz or 480i.

However, if a monitor supports higher numbers of lines on screen that means it supports higher resolutions. In interlaced mode.

So if you have a Sony PVM that supports 800 lines of video that means you can create a custom modeline using software of your choice (there are a few options) that will be accepted by the monitor. 1280x800i would be a good choice. It is not a 4:3 resolution but the CRT won't care and it will be "automagically" squeezed to 4:3 and all you have to do is play your video on it in full screen stretch and everything will work out.

Why go to all of this trouble? Well, these CRTs usually look really, really good and it's nice to get everything out of a piece of hardware that you possibly can. If you are running them as computer monitors for whatever obscure reason it can be useful there too.

This thread is pointless because you don't get a choice. Broadcast tv does what it wants.

>not having a 1080p capable tv/monitor in the year 2016

fast action: 720p
slow action: 1080i

'member DScaler?

i do the same thing

pic related, 1024x576i, 48/1.001Hz mode on a plain SDTV (which has a "16:9" mode which adjusts its geometry, allowing for full resolution widescreen video, which is pretty nice)

Bear in mind you will not get the full benefit of the resolution by doing this sort of letterboxing. The resolved detail will be limited by the dot or strip pitch of the screen.

Still, should look a fair bit better than 640x480.

Maybe try watching something like one of the Blu-Ray HD remasters of an older anime which is in 4:3? I know Dragon Ball has had that treatment. It should look excellent.

of course not every pixel is visually separate, but i think it makes more sense to use a resolution that exceeds the mask dot pitch than anything else, this way i know i'm maximizing what i get out of the screen

>Maybe try watching something like one of the Blu-Ray HD remasters of an older anime which is in 4:3? I know Dragon Ball has had that treatment. It should look excellent.
i have a few of those, ones made on film that transferred to 1440x1080 real nice
pic related, the vision of escaflowne (1996)

Do you mean CRT monitors or does it work with TVs too? If so how do I find out how many lines it supports?

what he's saying applies to CRTs in general, they only have an (effective) horizontal line limit, horizontal resolution, however, can be whatever

also, if we're talking standard tv sets, anything that supports NTSC will do 480i (or 240p), and PAL 576i (or 288p), i suppose some sets may sync to higher line counts, it makes sense that the professional monitors he mentioned supported more

ps. most PAL sets support 480i, but from what i hear NTSC sets less commonly support 576i (i live in a place where PAL is/was the standard, so i can't confirm this)

>being this retarded

Most TV is broadcast in 720p or 1080i

720p because its a universal standard