I am certainly not going to get into a discussion about whether I'd rather have 60p as a standard rather than 60i. We are not supposed to talk about "better" in this forum, but I think I'm on safe ground saying that we'd all prefer 60p to 60i. However, as an engineer, I understand the fact that broadcast bandwidth, computing horsepower, computer memory, and many other constraints make interlaced video the best way to get a better picture than would otherwise be available to the customer, given these constraints.
It is true that most (but not all) viewing devices do create a "progressive reconstruction" (I like that term) for displaying the result, but I think most of the ones I've seen actually do a remarkably good job compared to 90% (or perhaps 99%) of the attempts to "do it yourself." There are clearly a few people in this forum who know how to do it right, but based on the video people send to me for restoration, I'd say that is the exception, and not the rule.
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