High Voltage - we're proving that the Wii isn't underpowered

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jake_the_fake1 said:

Chrizum said:

hsrob said:

PATRIOT7ME said:

dahuman said:

PATRIOT7ME said:

Guovssohas said:
About the Wii's power, it's NOT underpowered for SD games, it's an SD console for God's sake, Standard Definition. IF the Wii was designed as a HD console, then it would be way more powerful.

Is that so hard to understand?

THE WII is AN EDTV conosleNOT SD GEE! 480p means EDTV!

EDTV res is part of the SD res, if you don't believe me, go wiki it.

No it is a higher res and runs well on HD screen and SD looks like crap on a HDTV

By definition it is not a higher resolution it's just progressive scan and how it or any SD standard looks on a HDTV depends on the TV.

Actually, 480p is twice the amount of pixels of 480i. It really is a higher resolution. 480i never looks good on an LCD screen, never.

no that's wrong, the resolution is the same, what changes the is bandwidth required to display a 480p image, infact 480p requires double the bandwidth than 480i, the reason for 480i was that for free to air TV it required less bandwidth and like wise for composite cables cables which meant this technique of displaying the same data was cheaper, it also lost a little quality but it was worth the compromose back in the day.

480p is slightly better than 480i, but nothing beats true 720p/1080p HD.

Also the coments of 480i images not looking good on LCD has todo more with the LCD tv it's self rather than the 480i signal it's self. just remember that all LCD tv screens only accept progressive signals, it's the decoders and in essence the tv graphics chip which handles the de-interlacing of 480i images into 480p, so a cheap tv will of course have a cheap graphics chip and thus the de-interlacing would be crap, a good LCD could do a better job, but of course just feeding the LCD a 480p signal will bypass all this....but then of course you face an issue of the LCD upscaling the image to it's native resolution and this again boils down to the quality of the LCD tv.

So the moral of the story is....you get a good LCD tv so that the image is some what maintained when compared to tube Tv's, or you simply feed your LCD HD tv a HD souce and avoid all this, in this particular case being a bit cheap on the tv won't have to much affect on the image.

Wow, you kids sure like to feed your bias.

 

There are three different basic types of NTSC resolutions. There's SD, ED, and HD. An SDTV cannot display an ED resolution. It can't. Period.

480i is the "same resolution" as 480p, in the fact that it requires 480 lines to properly display the image. However, ALL "i" resolutions are precisely half the actual number of lines being displayed. Rather than DISPLAYING 480 lines, 480i displays 240 lines. Then it jumps and displays the other 240 lines. It "interlaces" them together, essentially.

As a result, 480i is an SD resolution. But 480p is not.

 

 

If you don't believe me, go Wiki it.

I'll even help.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlacing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/480i

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/480p