Just wondering if anyone at Pana wanted to chime in on plans, if any, to put advanced processing/deinterlacing for 1080 film material (originally shot at 24p) that is being broacast @ 1080i60?  I want the ability to input 1080i60 from my cable box, and get 1080p24 @ 48 or 96 Hz, per some of Pana's (former) competitors in the plasma market.  I know many of the Panasonic plasmas (including mine) can show 1080p24 input over HDMI at some multiple of 24 fps (48, 96), but when is Pana taking the next step, allowing for recovery of 1080p24 from cadenced 60 Hz material (cable, satellite, OTA broadcast sources shot at 24p) and final display output at a multiple of 24 Hz?

With the V series plasmas, from what I understand, Panasonic is almost there....They can properly de-interlace film material for display at 1080p60, they just need the ability to toss out the repeated frames and display it at 48 or 96 using 2:2 or 4:4.  Quite literally, these sets have all the capability one would need, they just lack that last, simple step of disregarding the repeated frame.  All the processing-intensive stuff is already being done, and I would think it would be a simple matter to allow for this via a firmware update.

I know of at least one plasma manufacturer that offered the capability to do this...but they're not making plasmas any more.