cyril7: I dont believe that the philips one you saw support mpeg4, HN was flogging these up untill a couple of months ago, they are only mpeg2 capable.

On the note of 720p, its not just the 720 aspect, but the more important thing is the p. Pretty much Universally broadcasters do HD as 1080i, this is recognised by broadcasters as the "common image format", the use of 720p50 or 720p60 may well be taken up by broadcasters for sports, however 1080i is what most material is generated in and distributed as. However the ability of most domestic digital displays to successfully deinterlace a 1080i source (as they must as they are progressive by nature) is a real problem. Some do quite well at it, others not, a good deinterlacer costs a fair bit of money, professional ones more than your average german touring car, and even higher priced domestic displays struggle with deinterlacing 576i let alone 1080i. Therefore by moving the deinterlacing back to the broadcasters means that that aspect is not handled by the consumers display, this is very important.

Cyril