Consoles would benefit at running games 720p instead of 1080p.

[MikeRox]

Locknuts said:
I'm fine with 720p on consoles. For PC it's minimum 1080p because I sit a lot closer to the screen and anything sub-fullHD looks horrid. Plug my PC into my big screen though and from 3 metres away the difference is honestly difficult to tell for me. Anything less than proper 720p on TVs is noticeably blurry though.

Is your monitor 1080? as what most people conceive as the awful-ness of a lower resolution is just actually how bad scaling is. If you have a 1080p monitor, you want to play games in 1080p because the this gives 1 pixel of the monitor to 1 pixel of video output.

I'm not sure you'd find 768 as bad (for gaming at least) if your monitor had a native vertical resolution of 768. Though obviously you would notice there are less dots on the screen, it would look a lot better than it would on your 1080p display which would have to fake some pixels. The blurriness actually comes from the fact that a lot of pixels on the screen end up having to be parts of 2 different pixels in the image.

This is why SD content (particularly retro games) look way better on CRT monitors than they do on LCD.