If you take a Sony WEGA KV36XBR400 and connect a progressive scan DVD player to the 1080i input with high grade component Video cables. Then put in a DVD like Fantasia 2000. You will get a 16X9 1080i crystal clear photorealistic showing of the movie. If you get a chance to go to a sony store and check out that kind of setup on a XBR class WEGA tv not the FV WEGA you will be blown away. That demo is what it took for me to put down the money for the TV. What I am looking for now is a video card that can output to component video. Then i will have a huge Fish tank in living room. Funny thing is the tv weights about as much as a 36" fishtank would have
The XBR400 is Sony's only true HDTV WEGA. The rest are not HDTVs. And honestly, it's a waste of money to get that when a Mitsubishi HDTV looks just as good and costs less.
DVD is NOT 1080i. DVD is 720x480 or 480p. Playing a DVD on any kind of HDTV does look damn good, but it's certainly not 1920 x 1080. At that resolution, you could only fit about 26 minutes of video on a DVD.
If you saw Fantasia 2000 on HDTVs in a home theater-type store, I bet you a dollar to a donut that you saw the 4 minute Fantasia 2000 HD reel on DirecTV's HDTV demo channel. That 4 minute clip most certainly
is 1920 x 1080 and looks absolutely stunning!! It blows away the DVD, which already looked awesome on its own.