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hsrob on 14 August 2012
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disolitude said:
TheShape31 said:
disolitude said:
People who game on 32 inch TV's or less shouldn't give a shit about 1080p or 720p cause they won't be able to see the difference. 42 - 50 inch TV's people also shouldn't care unless they are extremely fussy or sit ridiculously close.

People who should care are the 60+ inch display crowd.


I love this argument where you tell me what my eyes can and cannot see.  I can see a clear difference on my 23" monitor, but just because you can't it doesn't mean that it doesn't matter.

The 60+ inch display crowd is not the "the human eye can only see so much" crowd, it's the "I'm rich enough to own a 60+ inch display" crowd.

I've been around here for a while now and have argued this with many people, frankly I'm tired and surprised people don't have a clue how to calculate optimal viewing distance per screen size.

Yes at 1 foot you may see pixels on your 23 inch monitor butmove back 2-3 feet..if you have 20/20 vision you won't see the pixels anymore.

Tell you what, go through this thread and if you have anything to add feel free to post a reply...

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=133541&page=1

or even better...here is the post you should read - http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4206563

Any time I've ever seen these stats my undestanding is that they are in the context of watching movies on a screen, not playing games, and I'm not convinced the two are exactly the same.

Very simply video sources at 480p, 720p, 1080p don't obviously suffer aliasing to anywhere near the same degree that you get in games,  so when watching a movie the benefit of 1080p over 720p can be quite subtle (depending on your viewing circumstances).  Going from 720p to 1080p in a game (all other things being equal) is in my experience much more obvious.  I'm sure there is more to it than in my explanation and I've read before articles from AV experts who still struggle to understand the optics behind why a 1080p video image looks 'cleaner' than a 1080p videogame image. Not something I have read up on recently though.

I say this from the perspective of someone who would much rather play F Zero at 720p 60fps rather than 1080p at 30fps.