[Dennis Schmitz]

Originally Posted by Dominik Seibold

The noise-difference is only caused by the blur caused by the downscaling-component. It won't be clean 720p, if the 1080p-source was noisy, just a bit cleaner. The mpeg2-encoder of the ex1 works well enough, so I could apply that blur/downscaling in post with almost the same result, if I would want to. I don't care about multigen-performance, I like to see a lot of details in the picture and I generally prefer unprocessed footage.
So I clearly prefer 1080p.

No, 720p is not cleaner but it is nearly one stop brighter than 1080p and you don't have to deal with interlace artifacts! ;)

Dennis