I could say that your interpretation of 720p=1080i is wrong too, due to the 125% increase in visible resolution.
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regardless of how we want to say the same things, 720p generally looks better not only because it's progressive, but because it's much easier to compress a progressive image into mpeg-2 than an interlaced image. for similar bitrates the 720p image is going to look much better.
Originally Posted by
dubcac
Well that's not the way it looks between our two tv's...so either 1080i really does look clearer, or my TV is just way better.
It's the deinterlacing that the TV does, it converts it to a 1080p signal to view, with decent equipment the deinterlacing process should look pretty good, and due to the larger spatial resolution of the monitor it gives the effect of a better looking image.