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slowmo on 12 January 2011
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d21lewis said:
Badassbab said:
poroporo said:
Slimebeast said:

Resolution beyond 720p means practically nothing.

720p is beautiful enuff.


My 42" screen knows the difference. I'll take 1080p over 720p anytime, thank you.


My friend has a 720p 32inch TV, I have a 1080p 32 inch TV and boy can I tell the difference. A friend of mine commented how it looks as sharp as a stanley knife  on my 1080p TV while on the 720p TV it's not that much better than his standard def digital satellite picture quality.


Last week, I brought home a 46' Inch Toshiba 1080p LED LCD TV valued (by the furniture store) at $1700.  I took it home, hooked up my PS3, tried God of War 3 and Coraline on Blu-Ray.  The difference was noticeable but not too much better than my 32' 1080i/720p TV.  I only used component cables, though.  I wound up taking the TV back.

I plan to buy a 1080p TV (probably a Vizio) in the next seven days, though.  It's just that when I got it into my house, the difference between 720p and 1080p was not what I'd hoped for--and on top of that, until I realized what was going on, the PS3 would play video in 480i!!  Luckily I went to settings and made some adjustments.  As for the comment of 720p not being much different from Standard def digital satellite quality--I'm with DirecTV and I can DEFINITELY see the difference between standard def channels and HD channels!!

If you're looking at a 1080p TV then I would advise a couple of pointers.  Make sure the screen resolution is 1920x1080, TV manufacturers can actually get away with putting a 1080p logo on the box if the TV will accept that input even if it doesn't display at the full resolution. 

Make sure you look for a good brand TV and read plenty of reviews.  A lot of peoples complaints in here about being able to see a big difference between 1080p and 720p is them just proving their TV's have a pretty crap scaler in fairness.  If you run a game in upscaled 1080p and it looks better than the same game at 720p native on your TV then thats a pretty sure fire sign your TV's onboard scaler is inferior to your now 5 year old gaming device.  That's crap imo.  Obviously a native 1080p signal trumps a 720p signal everytime and this is why many TV displays in stores will use 1080p animated Blurays where possible to give the TV the best chance to look nice.  It would be more telling to run a normal HDMI DVD player on each TV and see the respective quality difference for the vast majority of buyers imo.