[MEncoder-users] Encoding to DVD: to deinterlace or not?

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 11:25:29PM -0500, James Hastings-Trew wrote:
> RC wrote:
> > On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:53:38 -0500
> > James Hastings-Trew <jimht at shaw.ca> wrote:
> >> You can't buy CRT tvs anymore, at least not around here.
> >>
> >> I find that extremely hard to believe.  The big expensive LCDs and
> >> Plasmas may be most prominently displayed, but CRTs aren't going away
> >> for a long time.  Direct-view CRT is the least expensive technology that
> >> can do HD, and CRT tubes remain the best (and least expensive)
> >> technology for projection TVs.  CRTs are still the most popular tech
> >> for new TVs here in the US.
> Here in Canada the only CRT TVs for sale are low end small models for 
> people who can't afford a $100 15inch LCD. The last time I was in a Best 
> Buy was about 3 months ago in Denver, and I didn't see a single TV that 
> wasn't a flatscreen. But yeah, you are right about the 1080i.

Yes, only because consumers are dumb. 1080i is 540 lines per frame.
720p is 720 lines per frame.

Rich