[TheAnimus]

Rave mate, its not that simple at all.

You can save a lot of money just broadcasting in one constant format.

if you've got 1080i camera's covering the sport, then how can you just film it in 720p without extra cost. Then hardware constantly picking n choosing between the two, mixing between the two, its expensive.

Now, interlacing, with football, will only matter when something is panning against a form you know well. A football player will not look hideously stupid on 1080i.

I've seen a demo by Samsung of F1, which generally moves a bit faster, and just as tediously as football, and i couldnt tell the difference between 1080i/1080p But i had been drinking the free drink. Its worth noting this was only a 40" screen.

Also i don't know what the interpolation rate was. As bob's said they might use double our frequency. (thou now adays this makes little sense).

My guess is, if we're lucky will see that magic 76hz, aka enough to shut us up.

you have to remeber that with a lot of these highdef camera's they're using clever trickery to reduce the cost, now apparently they can do something with a cheap layer over the sensor to provide interlacing at about 3/4 the cost of progressive scans. Thats quite neat.