Are You Getting All of the HDTV Resolution You Expected?

Home Theater Mag tested 61 new 2006 HDTVs to see how the actually perform under deinterlacing, 3:2 cadence detection test, and the bandwidth test. I was quite amazed to see that 54% of the sets failed the deinterlacing and an 80% of the sets failed the 3:2 detection test.

From the article:

Many scripted television and all film-based movies that telecast in 1080i HD are
recorded at 24 frames per second. For broadcast, this is converted from film or
1080p/24 video to 1080i/30 using a telecine conversion. A good internal
processor should use a method called HD inverse telecine to recognize like
frames and reconstruct them for a 60-frame-per-second display using a 3:2
cadence. If the processor reconstructs the image properly, you'll see all
2-million-plus pixels of information in the original source material (on a 1080p
display). A 720p display will downconvert the full 1,920-by-1,080 image to 1,280
by 720.