Given that most of the material people will be watching on blu ray will be films then 1080i isn't necessarily such an evil, it just depends on how your tv deals with it.
I am sure it has been mentioned on these forums many times how the two consecutive frames from film material are actually two halves of the same picture rather than a true interlaced source where each frame would be from a slightly different image, so as long as your tv handles this properly those two frames can be combined to make a single frame of film without any loss in pq.
Having said that apparently a lot of displays do not do this properly so it would be nice if Sony could add 720p to the PS3 through a firmware fix in the future, if it is possible
Seem to be a bit of conflicting data floating around online about this so I thought I would just ask, can the PS3 display Blu-Ray discs at 720p?
Well I've just tried this with my PS3 and unfortunately with 720p set as my display mode it plays blu-rays in 480p. However if I select 1080i as my display mode then it plays blu-rays in 1080i and as most 720p TVs made support 1080i you should be fine.
well there is no problem with movies actually, since they are always in 1080p. Every TV set that supports 720p supports 1080i as well.Anything sold in Europe with a HD-READY logo on it, will display 1080i and 720p.
If you TV has a HD-READY logo on it, you have absolutly nothing to worry about. It's the early HD adopters, with their partial HD support, is where the problems lay...