720p != 1080p

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Looks like my 720p decision was spot on according to hsrob's graph.

I do think too much HD can be detrimental to suspension of disbelief in many instances, not just in porn.

I made a thread a while back noting that the fakeness of the fake sets in Saving Private Ryan become glaringly obvious in glorious full HD, thus pulling you out of the immersion into the world of the movie.

I had the same sort of experience watching Avatar when I went for my semi-regular lunchtime electronic gadgets perv session at the nearest electronics store to my work. It was Avatar on blu-ray playing on a full HD LED TV. The image was incredibly crisp and detailed, Soooooo much more than my 720p TV. But what it ended up doing was accentuating the fakeness of the CGI world created in Avatar, especially around the things that CGI struggles with (hair, and contact between 2 surfaces). At the glorious full HD resolution the CGI-ness of the hair of the Na'avi creatures was made more obvious than it is at lower resolutions, and the unnaturalness of 2 surfaces coming into contact with one another (i.e. it still looks like one surface is floating ever so slightly above the other when seen from the side) is also more obvious.

So in some respects I think I prefer a lower res image because it helps to keep me immersed in the fantasy by fakeness being less obvious.

Too much of a good thing and all that.

Gaming wise, though, I think you can never have too much HDness, given we are coming from a world of having to pretend boxy images on a screen are people and creatures and scenery.