The AVS Forum has an interesting thread about the $40k 3-chip D-iLA projector by Faroudja. The DILA1080pHD package comes with the DVP4000 scaler, which does not do 3:2 pulldown properly for 1080i sources. They’re bobbing 1080i to 540 and scaling up. The Perfect Vision’s Shane Buettner said in an article for that magazine that Faroudja is working on a on update, which may be ready by the time you read this.

But my point, and that of the forum poster, is that this was quite an expensive projector. If you’re laying out that much cash, you hope that they do things right. On the other hand, Mr. Peterson, a contributor to the thread, notes:

This isn’t really much of a surprise. At the time the Faroudja was introduced, was any consumer product performing full motion adaptive 3:2 pulldown on 1080i sources? Consumer 1920×1080 progressive displays are new, so it isn’t unreasonable to assume that the rest of the video chain is going to lag in development a bit. Bottom line though, Faroudja was one of the first companies to fully support 1080p (via the DVP-1080) so Faroudja owners have a solution.

The moral of the story is that you still have to be very careful of what you buy before HDTV technologies catch up to what the format is capable of.

Link: AVS Forum - $40k Faroudja 3-chip D-iLA doesnt do 1080i 3:2 pulldown