Incubi said:
Bacause 90% of those people who own a HDTV's bought HDReady. HDReady TV's are capped at 720p. Many places in the world TrueHD is regarded as a luxury commodity, and since cable providers only offers 720p broadcasting they end up not caring too much about upgrading to TrueHD. |
90%? Are you sure? I live in Brazil and honestly, I can't buy a 720p TV, all of them are 1080p. It's easier to find one of the rare 4K displays than a 720p one. Even with older sets it's pretty unusual to find a 720p TV.
EDIT: I was thinking about it. Brazil started to jump in HD TVs with full force in 2010 because of the World Cup, so people here have newer TVs. Coutries that jumped earlier in the HD train probably will have more people with 720p displays that didn't bought newer ones yet.
| green_sky said: Anyone have input on how game looks at 1440/1600p? Would be interesting to compare. |
Probably not that good on a 1080p TV. The problems isn't just resolutions, it's interpolation. A 4K tv has 4 times more pixels than a 1080p one so, when viewing 1080p content, the TV simply uses 4 pixels to display 1 pixels of the content with zero distortion. Now, 720p has half of 1080p pixels but you can't just use 2 pixels (a rectangle) to represent a single square pixels of the 720p content. A 1080p TV only displays tha resolution, the pixels are fixed. So it interpolates the 720p image, aproximating the pixel values to fit on its 1920x1080 grid. The same applies to 1440/1600p.
The best way to view a content is in its native resolution or in a display that has the capacity of display 4 more (or multiples of 4) pixels. An example, 720p looks better in a 1440p screen than in a 1080p one because of this rule.
