Byron Rabone a director of Queensland based home automation Company Rabone Systems has said that he has watched the debate over Hitachi and 1080p Vs 1080i with intertest. He claims that he finds it find it interesting that this argument exists in the first place.
In an email to SmartHouse he claimed that the use of the term "True HD" is allowing both consumers and retailers to be misled as it is open to much speculation.
He personally believes that Hitachi has done nothing wrong in stating that their products are true HD as the term HD, "High Definition" represents the resolution of a display and not necessarily the refresh rate or interlacing method. Under the two current Australian HD broadcast formats, 720p and 1080i, Hitachi's display meets these requirements and let's not forget that the introduction to high definition content to consumers originated from the broadcast world and was introduced long before Blu-ray and HD-DVD which is still under much debate with the current format war.
He goes on to claim that in the professional industry we discuss the performance of a display by "Native resolution" such as "1080/50P native". (Resolution/refresh rate/interlacing/the physical maximum output resolution of the screen regardless of scaling technologies used).
