When I got my BDP-83 in March the first thing I did was hook it up to the 26" Samsung LCD in my bedroom (my HT system still used a 20" wide screen computer monitor). The Samsung was capable of 1080i. I put the setup BD packaged with the player in and watched the demo. It was amazing, even at 1080i. But I was upgrading from a Pioneer Elite 59AVi DVD player, not from a 983H.