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globalisateur on 13 April 2014
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ArnoldRimmer said:
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

Oh... I guess I really misread your OP then and need to apologize. I guess I prematurely considered this to be one of those countless "720p is enough, there's hardly any visual difference between 720p and 1080p" threads. Which I agree to, but consider the endless discussions about it to be pointless and annoying, because they're ignoring the actual problem.

I don't quite understand though why you claim both 720p and 1080p to be "crap", yet (as I remember) started this thread by pointing out how much worse it was just a few years or decades ago. If you consider 1080p to be "crap", you must consider N64, SNES or even NES graphics to be downright disgusting.

I already considered the image quality of my N64 crap during its era. Most particularly the PAL version which, I think, already kinda scaled the image into PAL format. Add to that the analog AV output... In the end I only played on my Jap N64 using the best available cable at times: SVHS.

The same image quality crap for my beloved PAL gamecube. But this time the RGB pal signal was better, but the image was still badly scaled internally notably in some games (compared to the more sharp NTSC signal) so the image was always muddy compared to the almost perfect PS2 image. Xbox was also very badly scaled and muddy (still comparing to PS2, comparing with MGS2 available on both consoles).

It wasn't a problem of resolution, but similar, really. People at 720p/900p on XB1 complain the image is muddy compared to the PS4 games at native 1080p. When the image is scaled (internally by PAL N64/Gamecube), or upscaled by XB1 or your TV, you can see the difference compared to a native/sharper image.