You mean ICT flag ? Naaah, I vote that ICT flag is already "dead"ubern00b said:
If they want to exchange all non-HDCP purchased "HD" units in last 4 years or so for "free" I may start to believe again 
By the way DVI can carry ICT flag - no problem.Quite a few years of technology "peace" is really relative,when we consider how rapidly everything is changing around us. It's dream come true. For the perfect (and large) multimedia/multifunction display panel, capable to handle everything you throw in ... I would say wait a year or so until things settle down. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's the feeling I have.
How do you mean source is "widescreen" ? Aspect ratio is one thing and upscaling is not strictly defined by this. You see, upscaling (or video source interpolation) is not just something which is there for granted. Implementation differs from manufacturer to manufacturer directly resulting in the final picture quality. More importantly, sometimes display device doesn't have to care about this! If all processing is done on the media player level (or A/V receiver itself), display device will receive nice, clean and already upscaled and aspect ratio fixed video stream. You just have to be sure that your can support the number of pixels requested. Anyhow, that's not important now.ubern00b said:
Did you know that 16:10 computer display aspect ratio is "historical" heritage of the CGA resolution (320×200)ubern00b said:
Anyhow, I understand you and I understand that people are keen to have 1:1 pixel mapping. In other words untouched HDTV 1920x1080 resolution so that correct aspect ratio is preserved and that you have black borders on top/bottom. That's just fine, but couple of things I would like to mention:- We are not sure about the scaler chipset quality in BenQ case (maybe it's good, maybe it's not).
- If you have HD-DVD or Blue-ray PC drive, your PC and media player software will take care of the problem and you are pretty much safe. In that sense, if your DVI input will eventually take care of PC desktop display, PC Games, HD movies playback ... I guess that gaming consoles and HD broadcast are left problematic ? I remember that TR mentioned that SkyHD 1080i broadcast was tested and it was just fine and we are left just with the gaming consoles and they definitely don't require HDMI for HD gaming (you may use even VGA input). Honestly, I would rather plug expensive HD separates (and that includes gaming consoles, high end HD players or even HD TV broadcast) into the big ass LCD TV then 24" PC monitor itself.
- It's problematic if you don't have enough GPU muscle to run games in native 1920x1280 resolution. Again, we are not sure about the upscaling quality and I'm also sure that people with lowspec rig are not potential users of this monitor.
Are we making a fuss too early and without any practical reason ? BenQ HDMI business is a nice thing (for marketing too), but at the sime time it's bringing the confusion on board ... especially if at the end is not THAT important - rationally. More importantly, what users will use this monitor REALLY for ? if we exclude the show off factor with that oh-so-trendy HDMI port
and picture quality will be still excellent. 1080i gives a more detailed picture of stationary subjects, 720p looks more crisp for moving subjects. You can even tell when switching from true 720p to 1080i that video starts to look jerky, it's not smooth and you may notice the flickering edges on horizontally moving objects. Honestly, for me, 720p is still fantastic choice.
and as far as I remember he mentioned this to me.
