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Old November 30th, 2008, 11:30 AM   #9
Alister Chapman
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It's more noise which equates to more stress on the codec which means more artifacts which will degrade multi generation performance. Yes 720P is softer than 1080 but I would take a clean 720P picture over a noisy 1080 one any day. Picture noise in the form of film grain is why channels like Discovery and Nat Geo don't like film. Super 16 is not permitted by most HD channels.
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