Blue Ray player with 1080I TV ?

No 1080i and Blue Ray or HD-DVD looks amazing... 1080p's only benifit is you sit close to a small screen (typically you have to be at 8' away max on a 50") or have a really large screen (projector). Besides most of the 1080p TV's just upscale 1080i internally.

The big different in the HD Disc formats versus your HD cable or direct tv, is there is no compression (except some of the blue ray discs are still mpeg2 and look 10% better than normal DVD... sony sucks!!) So even 1080i out of one of these players will absolutely smoke your other HD sources... it's truely amazing!

www.projectorcentral.com has some great articles on this.

Cytocycle --

Your comment about most 1080p TV's upscaling 1080i internally is interesting and not something I knew. Does that mean that it's not time to upgrade the TV? I was thinking that to take full advantage of 1080p sources (e.g. Blu Ray) you need a 1080p TV. I know that a 1080i TV will work fine, but I assumed that 1080p was much better still. Which TV's are true 1080p, does it matter, and is this just a matter of little bit of time, or is this likely to be the norm for some time to come?

Thanks!

-dan

1080P is not a huge deal unless like Cyto said, you have a big screen, in fact on smaller screen 720P can and is very good.