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Is 720 Better than 1080 in the Real World?

Posted by Mike Porper (A) on October 26, 2011 at 13:26:40

OK. Continuing with my brand new JVC JLC32BC3000 1080p/60hz. It's making me sick.

I live in Chicago. I don't have cable or satellite, and I never will. Thus, I get all broadcasts from the air. The major networks broadcast from 720 to 1080i on their main channels. But, on their secondary channels [which I watch], they tend to broadcast 480. Here's how it breaks down:

CBS 2.1 = 1080i
NBC 5.1 = 1080i
NBC 5.2 & 5.3 = 480
ABC 7.1 = 1080i
ABC 7.2 = 720
ABC 7.3 = 480

Here's the deal. On my spanking new JVC, 480 looks like crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. And yet, on my friend's 780 Panasonic, it looks great. Almost indistiguishable from 780. It looks hi def.

So, does that make 720 a better bet? At least you can watch all of your old DVD's without torture. And, so far, 1080 hasn't looked much better than 720. Am I totally wrong? Going nuts. Any more of this, and I'm going back to a nine inch Philco black and white tube, with real tubes in the electronics.

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