shikamaru317 said:
I just put the information he gave into a PPD (pixels per degree) calculator. At a 10 foot viewing distance, a 50 inch tv playing 720p content has 61 PPD, that's over the 53 PPD threshold where someone with 20/20 vision can no longer distuingish between individual pixels. My own screen at my typical viewing distance has 54 PPD at 720p, just over the 53 PPD threshold (I tested the PPD threshold theory to see if it's true, Youtube videos running at 720p and 1080p look identical on my screen at my typical viewing distance). Resolution doesn't matter unless you have a very large screen or unless you sit very close to a smaller screen. Now in several years once 60+ inch 4K tv's become affordable, then native 1080p will become more important, but by that time we could see new consoles, it's been predicted that mobile graphics will catch up to the Xbox One and PS4 by 2018, and I doubt that Sony and Microsoft are going to let smartphones/tablets have games with better looking graphics than their consoles. |
this^^ in other words most people who have kinect friendly living room with a 50 inch TV will not see any difference between 1080p upscaled or not upscaled....
now that said even people with 1080p TVs over 50" seating closer than 10 feet.... I'd bet a ton of them have a poorly set up/calibrated systems, don't have a high end HD TV and therefore wouldn't see it either or better yet even if everything was set right and of good quality still don't have the eye to notice it.... that's like a lot of techie things most people have absolutely no clue what good full HD look like.... do the test with your relatives....
