im looking to get a new 32" inch hdtv and i saw some cheap vizios but they were 1080i and i was wondering if it was worth going up 300 or 400$ to get 1080p because i have the hdmi cables and i want it to look stunning, so which is better
At that size it wouldn't really serve any purpose to go 1080p. If you were willing to spend more money then I would invest in a better brand than Vizio.
Oh and to help clarify a massive misconception on these and other forums, this isn't a "1080i" TV. The only TVs with an actual display resolution of 1080i are CRT HDTVs, all that Vizio is doing is ACCEPTING a 1080i input, but in all likelihood it has a native resolution of 1366x768.
So get that way of thinking out of your head, there are no 1080i TVs, everything is Progressive, whether it be 720p, 768p, 1080p or whatever.
Oh and to help clarify a massive misconception on these and other forums, this isn't a "1080i" TV. The only TVs with an actual display resolution of 1080i are CRT HDTVs, all that Vizio is doing is ACCEPTING a 1080i input, but in all likelihood it has a native resolution of 1366x768.
So get that way of thinking out of your head, there are no 1080i TVs, everything is Progressive, whether it be 720p, 768p, 1080p or whatever.
im looking to get a new 32" inch hdtv and i saw some cheap vizios but they were 1080i and i was wondering if it was worth going up 300 or 400$ to get 1080p because i have the hdmi cables and i want it to look stunning, so which is betterjettreed10
For movies and TV you might not notice much difference, but for gaming 1080p is superior to 1080i if you plan on getting an LCD or plasma screen TV. Interlacing is something that works better on CRTs. It has something to do with how the electron beam scans across the screen when making the picture, it does ever other line of one frame then fills in every other line of the next frame in between. LCDs dont have vacuum tubes or electron beams doing all that stuff so they can display the image one frame at a time. Hence the term progressive scan, the lines of each frame are drawn in progression (1,2,3,4...etc) instead of every other line.
I always thought 1080i Was the best... >_> Maybe I was wrong.
With my HDMI cables for my HD TV my PS3 formated to the "highest resolution possible" it told me... which was 1080i
Cut-Man
If your TV can't do 1080p, the option will not be available. But 1080p is better, you get one full frame each time the TV displays an image vs half of the current and every other frame with interlaced. Also note this, there is a technology difference between why Tube TVs used interlaced and how non CRTs display an image.
" LCD, micromirror (DLP), or plasma displays; these displays do not use a raster scan (the tube part) to create an image, and so cannot benefit from interlacing: in practice, they have to be driven with a progressive scan signal."
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