| OdinHades said: Well, if you ask me, 720p just ain't good enough for a 2013 console. I mean, think about it. It's not just about today, those consoles will be around for at least 5 years and it's very possible that even in 2020 people will still be playing with them. By that time 4K TVs will be dirt cheap and 8K will be right around the corner. And you really don't want a 4K TV to upscale 720p, trust me. 720p was never the real deal. It was a compromise to lower the cost in the early days of HD. The problem is, that it just doesn't want to fit with the other resolutions. You see, 4K is exactly four times 1080p. So if you upscale 1080p to 4K, you get four pixels for one pixel. The results are just what you would expect from a native 1080p display. With 720p that won't happen. The image gets messed up as you get double pixels, triple pixels or even quad pixels let alone pixels that just disappear altogether. Depends on the upscaler, but you will have issues like that every time when you view a 720p image on a TV with a higher resolution. After all, it's always the native resolution you will want to have. Only that gives you the optimal image quality. In 2013 1080p displays are more common than not and a device that releases in that very year should be capable of rendering in 1080p, no matter what the content is. It's called future proof and it's very important for consoles, not so much for PCs. Sorry for da bad engrish, I tried. :( |
You did great. And I definitely see and respect your POV.
