The Playstation 4 Advantage. Can Gamers Tell The Difference Between 720p and 1080p?

[SvennoJ]

fluchtpunkt said:

SvennoJ said:
Obviously they thought they can, why else the horrible sharpening filter in the upscaler to fake more detail. MS gambled that most games wouldn't reach 1080p and that they would have the image advantage side by side with contrast boost, gamma adjustment and artificial sharpening in their upscaler.
Seems people could clearly tell the fake 1080p from actual 1080p and MS had to remove the sharpening filter after facing backlash.

So its all a conspiracy of evil MS right now? The hate of evil evil evil MS is absurd. Seriously.

What does that have to do with an evil conspiracy?

TV manufacturers have been using this tactic for decades to sell tvs, boost contrast, brightness, sharpening to stand out from the tv next to you in the shop. First thing any video calibration disc tells you to do is, turn of image sharpening, then lower contrast and calibrate a proper black level.
It works too, how many times have you not seen someone say the darker image with higher contrast looks better than the 'washed' out ps3/ps4 image. Yet plenty people can tell the difference between an artifically enhanced upscaled image and a native 1080p image, let alone 720p and 1080p.