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slowmo on 27 April 2012
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brendude13 said:
slowmo said:
brendude13 said:

The difference between 720p and 1080p for gaming is very noticable.


Not unless you're on about PC gaming as 99% of PS3 and 360 games are upscaled from 720p.  In that case it's more indicative of a poor scaler in your display rather than the resolution that's making the difference.  If you mean in future that the difference will be noticable then I conceed you're correct , provided games are rendered at 1080p natively.  I still think there is a market for 720p 3D gaming next gen though as I don't think displays are cheap enough to do 1080p 3D gaming widespread and the consoles will not have the horspeower either.

Oh yes, I meant PC gaming. My friend has a 1080p monitor and Battlefield 3 wasn't running so smoothly. He said he would drop the graphics settings but I told him to drop the resolution to 720p, I couldn't believe how much of a difference it made.


It's a double whammy when you drop the resolution because as soon as you go below a panels native resolution you always get the slightest "fuzz" on edges.  In the scenario you mentioned a 720p panel would actually probably look better and sharper than your friends 1080p TV at a 720p resolution, it would be sharper and reduce the perceived quality gap.  It's just another limit of the display technology.