[Villages Kahuna]

If you want to see how much better "real" 1080 is, go to any of the big box electronics stores and ask them to show you a 1080i set hooked up to a Blue Ray DVD player playing a Blue Ray encoded movie. You can stand 2-feet in front of a 40-inch screen and not even see a pixel the definition is so great! Not that 720p on a new HD set is bad; it's just that 1080 is unbelievable!

But again, a new 720 set will probably wear out before the broadcast channels, cable or satellites provide a 1080 signal. A good example is the local Comcast programming. They have a lot fewer of the digital features available in TV than even in other parts of the country ("On Demand", phone service, etc.). Their explanation is, "we let the infrastructure fall so far behind that we need to upgrade it before any of those features are available here." If that's the case, you might only imagine how long it will be before they invest to provide the necessary bandwidth capacity for a 1080 resolution signal.