@edgie700 wrote:
Hi , I was about to ask if people find the 1080i or 1080p setting better than the other , reading a few things online one web page says that 1080i is equivalent to 720p because it's interlaced and 1080p is considered as proper hd , obviously not 4k but as far as 1080 is concerned, anyone find the 1080i better or worse or 1080p better ?
There's often a lot of garbage spoken on the internet. 1080i has about 20% more detail in it than 720p (1920x540x50 pixels per second vs 1280x720x50) but the important point is your box setting isn't going to magically give you 1080p content if your signal from the satellite is 1080i. All it (or the TV) can do is guess the missing interlaced lines because the TV has to display in 1080p (or 4k or even 8k). Some TVs are better at that deinterlacing than the Q. Some are worse. Which is why it comes down to trying both and seeing which you prefer. Ghost horizontal lines on scrolling new tickers is a giveaway of a bad deinterlacer.
BUT that usually means it's assuming the source content is a movie, which only has a framerate of 25fps, not 50) where 1080i @ 50Hz actually can carry all the detail of a 1080p/25 movie, so actually if the deinterlacing is done accurately then movies (and some TV shows which are shot at the same framerate as a movie to give them a more expensive feel) are identical in 1080i and 1080p, as long as the deinterlacer combines the odd & even "fields" correctly.
Sport is where you get the big advantage of the full frame progressive signal - which is why UHD sport at 4k is so much better than HD - it's actually 8x the detail once you take interlacing into account. And sometimes has HDR. No comparison, in spite of what some may say.
