Barozi said:
A203D said:
BMaker11 said:
I thought the 360 couldn't even do 1080P natively because you need HDMI for that, and 360 originally didn't have that. Therefore, everything that's "1080P" on the Xbox is merely upscaled, while the PS3 was built with 1080P in mind from the ground up?
If my assumption is correct, the PS3 has more 1080P native games.....because the 360 has 0
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This is what i originally thought as well, but apparently HD is not to do with that if its a game, because the data stored on the disk is numbers, codes etc (except for audio and video), so the codes or numbers are translated into the resolution the hardware allows. therefore if the data is coded in 720/1080p resolution, the information sent to the monitor is displayed in that resolution.
the reason you would need a HD cable is because you need a better cable to allow for preservation of that signal from the hardware to the tv.
so in reality you are getting a true HD picture on both consoles (to the best of my knowledge). however for films the data needs to be written onto the disk in HD to be displayed in HD. so i think this means for the 360, when you watch cutscenes that data is not in true HD, but everying else is. but i mean i could be wrong, and it could just bt the PS3 does true HD and the 360 only does upscaled.
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Why shouldn't a 360 disc being able to hold a 1080p cutscene ?
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Dont worry, i'm wrong about that. it can hold a 1080p cutscene, depeding on how many cutscenes there are. most games i know of only do 720p cutscenes anyway.
but i meant with films like Star Wars, etc, those films are pre-recorded, when you publish those pre-recorded DVDs they cant be played in HD, but they can be upscaled using an upscaling chip some DVDs players have, but this is not true HD.
games dont have this problem because they're already motion captured and written on the DVD or blu-ray using HD (which is just a fancy way of saying 'more pixels on the screen'). the only problem with the 360 is that those pre-recorded scenes can take up considerably more space, so you need a larger capacity media or multiple disks for games with a lot of pre-recorded cutscenes.
so in a nutshell, both consoles are capable of doing full HD.
