| Fuzzmosis said: Odd question: If this be true, how can marketers be getting away with the advertising in these formats, or is there no technical specs or limitations on the P/I formatting? I.E. what's up with this? I proudly admit my ignorance in this area, yet desire to know, because if this is true, then most people proudly boasting their knowledge on games in HDalso knew about as much as me. Which is hilarious, and bad. |
From my extremely limited knowledge of the subject. I believe it was decided (I forget by who if I'm even right) originally both 720p and 1080i were HD resolutions, but it couldn't be settled which would be the standard, so there's simply both of them. Now we have 1080p as well, so that makes three. Then I've been told there's "TrueHD" and my TV isn't, and after that I just kinda said fuck it.
HD in my experience is simply a bigger damn picture. Like going from a thumbnail to a full sized image, you went to a HIGHER RESOLUTION of the same image. For computer screens you’re typically sitting less than a foot away and the image appears much bigger, so the higher resolutions are generally helpful. You up the resolution on your desktop it doesn’t scale the icons and pictures (kept maybe your wallpaper) so they appear smaller because it’s now on a higher resolution.
With a TV the image always has to fill the whole screen, which in HD sets SD signals get blown up and stretched out to fill the screen. On a computer it’ll play an SD video in a smaller window so to display it at it’s actual size. Switching it to full screen is more like what a TV would do. The picture actually isn’t that big so it’s scaled up and false details are filled in.
Typically SD looks like crap on HD sets because many HD sets can’t scale worth a damn, where as you were to put the image on an SD set of similar size, it’d look better because it’s built for that image size and doesn’t have to adjust it.
Now quality upscaling can take a lot of the ugly out of blown up SD images. In fact the 360 itself is probably the best damn upscale DVD player I’ve tried yet. Yeah it’s not HD, but it looks awesome, so screw it. This way I don’t have to rebuy my DVD collection on a more expensive media that’s split into two damn formats.
Whole thing gives me a damn headache. I don’t even know if what I said was even accurate, probably not. But I can’t be made to care, it’s easier to just forget about it for ten years and wait for them to sort all this crap out. =P
In response to your orginal question, I guess you can say it is false advertising since the machines are upscaling
from a resolution lower than these vaguely established HD standards.
