I just realised if 720p is so horrible, how did we survive

[Pemalite]

kirby007 said:

ArnoldRimmer said:
Yeah, fuck technological improvements. Mankind survived travelling by horse, living in caves and all. So let's get rid of our cars & houses, television, the internet and back to OXO-style 35x16 pixel, 1-bit graphics.

But serious: I'm really getting annoyed by these stupid "Resolution doesn't matter" threads. It feels more and more like men not getting tired of trying to convince others that "Size doesn't matter".

While these people do have a good point (on most TV screens, the difference between 1080p and 720p is neglectable), the fact that they tend to try to ridicule and downplay the matter does not make these people seem like neutral and objective. And such behaviour generally raises the question of whom they're actually trying to convince: Others? ...or themselves? And... why?!? To me personally, it feels more and like people simply trying to justify/rationalize their own video game console purchase.

I'mnot saying resolution doesn'tmatter i'm saying 720and 1080 are both crap

EDIT:  i'm saying that making fun of 720 from the perspective of 1080 doesn't make sense

Fun fact (And mostly a testiment to the PC...)
John Carmack made the origional Quake game on a 1080P monitor in 1995.
Although it was a 28" CRT monitor.

The Quake engine would be modified and used in games such as Call of Duty, Source and thus by extension... Titanfall, Half Life, Portal, Left 4 Dead, you name it.
That was a seriously high-end monitor back then, but consider that almost 20 years ago (Before some of you were even born) PC gamers could play games in 1080P....
This is Nintendo 64/Playstation 1/Super Nintendo era folks.

We should have made a *much* larger jump. :P
1440P is readily available, cheap and plentifull, not really that much more expensive than 1080P Twisted Nematic panels if you go for the Korean branded panels, heck some of those monitors can be overclocked, that's what last generation consoles should have been outputting.

720P and 1080P is what should be expected out of a 4.5" and 6" phone respectively, not a 27"-60" or larger panel, demand more of these companies and you get more.