I think most professionals and those who make those critical visual decisions (i.e. executives and like producers) are lost when it comes to 1080p, HD and beyond the HD video tent.
I have recently changed careers from a 15-year professional veteran producer/cameraman to a sales and marketing guy for a start-up who has some really cool HD video routing and cabling solutions. My learning curve has been very steep. (The engineers slap me around pretty badly.)
Despite this, I must say that there are very strong indications that 1080p 60Hz is as close to most film as you can get. There is more to come, as we get closer to the promises of new technology changes.
Also remember, the blueray technologies are going to drive 720p out of the market as it will be obvious to the naked eye when presented on a 1080p screen or set. Those folks holding 720p broadcast cameras are going to be in for a shock and loss. Quite simply, remember when you bought that Cannon L1 Hi8 thinking you were going to change the world and was forsed to sell it on the cheap just a year and a half later.
By the way, I sold my DVCPro 50 Pack because I realized that the technology had just passed me by again. I've back gone to shooting super 16mm as the only acceptable format that won't break the bank. I will shoot with Sony 900 for interiors only. Yeah, you can shoot 35mm with less grain to be pristine imagining but how many productions can afford all that.
That?s my POV and I've been wrong before. But not this time.