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SvennoJ on 27 December 2013
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disolitude said:
SvennoJ said:

There is no 1:1 mapping when scaling 900p or 720p to 1080p. You can have 1:1 mapping when scaling 720p to 1440p or 2160p, but otherwise you're stuck with 2 pixels for every 3 pixels on your tv. It looks better when your console upscales the render resolution since the HUD information is usually put on top in 1080p. Console scaler isn't always better, it depends on the tv. My projector did a bettter job at upscaling Alan Wake and Forza Horizon than the 360, so I left the console output in 720p.

I prefer 1080p on pc with less or no AA over 720p with copious amounts of AA. I rather have a sharp picture with some aliasing artifacts then the softness of upscaled dvd quality.

While you are arguing the opposite by saying that your projector is left to do the scaling, all I am saying here is is that that you have to let your console scale the image and enable the display to "just scan" or "no overscan". That way things are mapped 1:1 and the image doesn't resize itself again due to overscan. That should produce the best results IMO but I guess some projectors are miracle workers. :)  

Otherwise I'm surprised somepne using projector would say they want 1080p with less AA (and lower frame rate?). DLP projectors hide resolution loss much better than LCD screens, thanks to their "puffy" pixels and your detail loss should be minimal at 720p with AA.

Letting the 360 scale the image produced a blurrier end result then letting the projector do the upscaling. I use a Panasonic PT-AE1000U, which does a great job at hiding the screendoor effect of LCD. A native 1080p picture with no AA looks a lot better then the softness of upscaled anti aliased 720p.

If you buy a high end display it's not so strange to get a better scaler then the one in a console. For any mid range tv, as long as it supports native or dot by dot mode, I guess the scaler in the console is fine. (Apart from the sharpening filter and gamma adjustments in the XB1 scaler...)

How can it hide resolution loss? The detail isn't there, the only thing you can do is add a sharpening filter but that always looks like crap. A 720p picture looks fine anyway, but switching to 1080p makes a huge difference.