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Procrastinato on 09 November 2009
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CGI-Quality said:
Procrastinato said:
The "contrast differences" seen in these, and all comparisons across the board, really, are due to the PS3 conforming to the official DVI-VIDEO signal format (which clamps black to "16" and white to "235" rather than the 0-255 range allowed in some other signals). The 360 does not conform to said format.

I'm not positive, but the only real drawback to not conforming may be that the PS3 will work/look better on some televisions than the 360 will. I don't think the 360 signal could damage a TV, but... it might look odd in some relatively rare cases. Certainly the PS3 will seem more consistent from TV to TV than the 360 will.

Sony could change this at any time with a firmware update... however then they wouldn't be conforming to the DVI-VIDEO format, and that might cause some consumers to get upset, since their TVs might not work well with the expanded signal.

I usually learn something from you in these tech conversations...

Knowledge is power.

In this case, its the power to have an unbiased decision on which game is better for your library. =)