| MaxwellGT2000 said: Heh I'm not holding my breath especially since emulators for even older systems still have issues. And when you put that 720p mario you posted 8 feet away from you and on a TV screen you're not going to see much difference. I'm speaking from a practical standpoint, you're not seeing more detail just an image thats a bit more clear that will be less clear if you take it off a computer monitor that is right in your face and put it across the room while you're actually playing the game. Heh do this, put the image you posted on your PC screen, walk back 8 feet and tell me how big of a difference it really makes for you, then do the same and watch that video in motion, it practically looks the same except the emulated version has many graphical issues especially with the shaders that overall brings down the quality of the visuals. |
Your "walk back 8 feet" thought experiment is faulty, because PC screens have higher DPI than TVs i.e. smaller pixels.
I'll save you the trigonometry but the angular size of a pixel on my Macbook (13",1280x800, watched from ~55 cm) is about the same as that of a 720p image watched on my 42" plasma from my couch at ~200 cms of distance (1.40 vs 1.28 minutes of arc).
The same math says that in these conditions a person with good eyesight would keep distinguishing the pixels (1 minute of arc) up to about 900 pixels along the vertical. Factor in the AA (and latency on LCDs) and 720p can be enough, but 480p isn't for me and many other people.
Anyway, I'm glad you are now speaking of subjective impressions, as I never contested the fact that for some people and in some conditions the (objective) improvements could be negligible.
