Ha ha! I identified my DVD player for you didn't I? I forget which is which sometimes! My projector is the Panasonic PT-AE900U. I never paid attention to its 1080p capability because I didn't expect to have a 1080p source any time soon. But now that I've seen some 1080p Blu-Ray and HD-DVD players' output ... whoo ... that's pretty tempting!
I take it those players I've seen were probably putting out 1080p/60? Seems odd that they'd use 3:2 pull-down if the native encoding was already at a 24fps rate and there are devices that can handle that. Wouldn't the best image come from projecting at the same rate at which the content was encoded?