720p vs 1080p, Does Resolution matter? - A Utilitarian Perspective

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alrightiwill said:

Just going to put this here as a mere point of reference.
NOTE: This chart is not an exact approximation nor an exact science, it's just a general guideline to where the AVERAGE person loses gains in higher resolution. If you beat the chart, well done. I myself can't but I do have poor enough eyesight

I agree to that chart for watching movies, where there aren't additional aliasing problems (jaggies, flickering borders). DVDs and Blu-rays are usually downsampled from higher resolutions (2K, 4K) to 640x480 (anamorph) or 1920x1080, so straight lines are already smoothed.

Games without perfect antialiasing show their deficits much earlier, so they need a higher resolution than movies on the same screen in the same distance.