windbane on 28 March 2007
shams said:
And me. Although I could buy one now ($1500) if I wanted - its still a WASTE of money. My HDTV doesn't play PS3 well (no 1080p) - the 360 would run a lot better. I barely buy DVD's - and couldn't care less about BluRay (I care about content/price much more than quality).
Why do you assume that the 360 will run better on a crappy TV? Why does anyone assume you have to have an HDTV to notice graphics are better? I have a crappy $200 Walmart-bought TV (they actually have good deals there it turns out), and I can tell that the games look better! For goodness sakes, you don't have to have HDTV to see that! Xbox games don't naturally look better on a standard TV! How would that ever make sense?
I can not imagine DVDs looking better on HDTVs because to me they look the same as movie theaters. Now, if movie theaters run the same resolution I'd be shocked. The main need for higher resolution is looking better on a larger space. Huge HDTVs don't look right with low definition content the same way a low resolution video on the PC doesn't look right if you make the video full screen. The more detail the bigger the image can be without distortion. However, at some point if the image looks exactly like it does on the camera that recorded it, how much better can it be? High resolution is just less compression and allows an image to look better on a larger screen.
Main point: images from any source that are high resolution do not somehow look worse on standard TVs when compared to an image designed for the lower resolution. Aren't Xbox games cramming 720p and above on DVD9 discs right now anyway? Isn't that why they are adding HDMI to the elite version? Wouldn't that look "better" on an HDTV because it would be bigger and still crisp? I would think so.
As for blu-ray. Okay, you don't want blu-ray movies. But I sure can't wait for games to take advantage of the extra space. I'll take it.
bums? That's a bit harsh... Im sure there are lots of students and other people out there who would struggle to come up with the cash.
Well, I came up with it somehow, and I'm a student. Then again, I recognize the present and future value of what I paid for.
