| Re: HD vs Blu-Ray.....
They are not. Both formats have the movies encoded at 1080p. In the case described above, it is just how the signal travels.
You can view it this way, 1080i at 60 frames per second is equal to 1080p at 30 frames per second. And since the movies in both format are at 24 frames, and the player need to convert that to either 30 or 60...
It is just a matter of the signal and the display. if the signal is either 1080i@60 or 1080p@30 it won't matter on a 1080p display.
regarding teh specs you describe, you are probably talking about specific players. There are players in teh market that cannot output 1080p as a signal. Liek the Toshiba HD-A1. But teh A2 can do that and the ones that are on teh pipeline can do that as well.
The other side of teh coin is the samsung blu-ray player, that can output 1080p, but in reality it is just a deinterlaced 1080i from the internal bus (the same thing the TV does).
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