Could someone explain to me what the difference is between
1080i and 1080P?

Also which one would be better to veiw movies with or games on ps3? If someone could maybe send me a link so i can read up on the differences. especially with 480 and 720

whats the "P" and the "i" stand for?


Thx for the help

So i found my answer. if i am correct any of the resolutions in "p" version is better? smoother pictures and less motion blur?

not really, yes, no, it depends.

Most of it depends on the source for you content.

You've got two competing things going on. Framerate/Feilds and Resolution.

1080i sends 60 seperate feilds a second @ 1920x540 resolution.
1080p sends 60 seperate feilds a second @ 1920x1080 resolution.

You can losslessly wrap a 1080p24 into 1080i. Which would be like say heroes on NBC.
Or you can do 1080p24 @ 24 frames a second ala blu-ray.

If you film sports at 60hz ala CBS football
you get 60 distinct temporal moments, but they are only 1920x540 resolution. This is different than 720p that runs at 1280x720p.

Now here's the thing anything that is interlaced needs to be de-interlaced to be displayed on a progressive display. So the quality of the de-interlcacer has a huge impact onthe quality of 1080i for 60hz content, 1080i content for 24hz content is much simplier to de-interlace.

Luckly i understand what your saying.
but still doesnt answer my question.

let me put it another way :D

is one better for gaming and the other for movies or am i just thinking to muhc into this and just play 1080P for everything and i wont even notice the difference between the 2?

1080p >= 1080i

1080i !>1080p

There are times it makes a difference, and times it doesn,but if you can do 1080p use it for everything.

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i have an 850 samsung. just wondered how does one set the res. to 1080P or i?

is it already set to this resolution?

The numbers typically refer to the number of lines of vertical resolution

Your old analog 4:3 TV set was 480i, regardless of the size.

The i vs. p refers to interlaced vs. progressive scanning, where interlaced is only drawing half of the scan lines in a given pass(even lines one pass, odd the next) and progressive is drawing every line, every pass.

Most current TV sets are set to match whatever the source is sending - so if your Blueray player is configured for 1080p and connected to an input on your TV that supports it, it will automatcially sync to the 1080p signal.

This is more technical, but says pretty much the same thing...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_scan

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i have an 850 samsung. just wondered how does one set the res. to 1080P or i?

is it already set to this resolution?

The TV is only 1080p it cannot display any other resolution. It's what is called a fixed pixel display (as are Plasma, LCOS, DLP, basically everything except CRT).

Your sources can be set to whatever, but by the time it is displayed it WILL be 1080p.

Thx Sotti, you've been a great help. :)