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[LizardKing]

http://reviews.cnet.com/HP_MD6580n/4505-6484_7-31484737-2.html?tag=nav

Sorry for another HDTV thread, but i think a lot of people have been waiting for an HDTV like this (i know i have). I think I'll still wait until next year though because unfortunately it says that the set cannot fully resolve 1080p.

Like all current 1080p-capable DLP TVs, this HP uses a chip that actually has 960x1,080 physical pixels. A process called wobulation or smooth picture rapidly shifts the pixels to double the horizontal resolution. LCoS-based 1080p HDTVs, such as Sony's KDS-R60XBR1 have chips with all the 2 million-plus pixels needed to serve up true 1080p

Damn, can't someone just combine the two tvs. I want sonys tv to accept 1080p through HDMI damn it.

 

[teiresias]

So, is "wobulation" basically interlacing of the horizontal rather than the vertical? That's not good - still on the fence (or just get a good 720p native front projector - wooha!!)

 

[LizardKing]

Someone with more knowledge on this "wobulation" can hopefully come in here and explain it better, but it sounds like they are trying to say that it is basically thier way of converting the interlaced display (with fewer pixels at once) into a progressive display by converting it to display all lines at once. Tricking 1080i to show as 1080p. I could be way off though.

 

[teiresias]

No, what it's saying it that the display has the vertical resolution to resolve the full 1080p vertical resolution of a 1080p signal, but it doesn't have the physical pixels to resolve the full horizontal resolution of a standard 1080p signal. So they basically "wobble" the picture back and forth horizontally to display all of the horizontal pixels in the signal.

A standard 1080p resolution is 1920x1080, so this TV has the full 1080 lines of vertical resolution, but only half (1920/2 = 960) the horizontal resolution. I'm not sure what the frequency of the "wobble" is though.

 

[LizardKing]

i gotcha. well that stinks. i guess nobody can get it right on the first time