At some point an interlaced signal has to be deinterlaced, whether it be at the player or the display. That's just one conversion. The 1080p signal coming out of the player should pass through the display without further deinterlacing. I fail to see where the extra conversion is. Are you saying the Samsung takes the 1080p data from the disk and converts it to 1080i then converts it back to a 1080p signal? If that's the case then the Samsung is indeed brain damaged.

That is exactly what the Samsung player does. Kind of silly isn't it?

And further more...if your display is 1080P like the newest ones on the market...then that just chaps my butt. Because then no conversion is needed.

You know as long as the chips are working properly, it shouldn't really matter. But there are chip solutions that will handle this without the conversion. I am still leary of the process, even though I know better. It just bothers me when signals are converted for no reason...why tempt fate?

As a late adapter I was going to wait until the dust settled before checking this stuff out but this has piqued my curiosity. I'll have to do some research now. More to follow...