Originally Posted by fs2k2isfun
While things will be moving toward 1080p in the future, there are no sources (other than a $1000 blu-ray player) which provide this quality. Broadcast 1080p is at least 5 years away, and probably closer to 8.
More than that, most likely. Broadcasters are constrained to use a 6 MHz-wide channel. The digital video coding method used by broadcasters and supported in digital TV receivers (called MPEG-2), coupled with the modulation method (called 8-VSB), cannot squeeze a 1080P signal into 6 MHz. You will, however, see 1080P DVD players.