the 1080p people...

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disolitude said:

elazz said:
When I put the settings on my pc to 900p or 1080p I already see a huge difference. Let alone 720p - 1080p. Even on a big television you clearly feel the difference. If you play CoD ghosts for a while on xbox one and afterwards playing on PS4 the difference is immense and I actually think that this factor alone can already define your purchase

Your PC monitor doesn't have a scaler and 900p does not upscale to 1080p properly hence why it looks like ass. A good scaler is needed to make 900p or 720p map 1:1 to pixels on a TV that has 1080 lines.

Truth on the matter 720p vs 1080p is just one part of the story, expecially when its upscaled with a good scaler like these consoles have at their disposal. Most PC gamers know that 720p with copious amounts of AA and a higher frame rate kicks the crap out of standalone "1080p" without AA and lower frame rate...when it comes to visual fidelity.

Of course a monitor has a scaler. They just aren't very good ones and they often go un-used, often the same goes for Televisions too.
Otherwise if you didn't have a scaler (Some Korean monitors don't have one) you just get a large fat black border around a 720P image on a 1440P display.

On the flipside PC GPU's can handle scaling tasks anyway and can do much more than what is essentially a "Fixed function scaler" in fixed devices such as a console, the reason why some upscaled stuff looks horrible on PC is because you are sitting close to the screen so you can see the shortfalls of an upscaled image.
Upscaling 720P and 1080P video and games on my 1440P panels always looks "good enough" if I'm across the room. - Get up close and you see how crap those resolutions really are, yet some people would still be perfectly content with it.