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SvennoJ on 03 July 2016
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Pemalite said:
SvennoJ said:

Yep it depends on the tv. With Alan Wake I got better image quality on my projector by letting the projector upscale 720p to 1080p (setting the 360 to 720p output) instead of letting the 360 handle the full upscale. If you have a high end 4K tv you might get a more pleasing image just leaving it in 1080p.
It depends how the upscaler is going to work. If it's a simple quadrupling of pixels of the 1080p buffer to reduce lag and unnecessary switching of display modes than the tv can likely improve iq at the cost of added latency.

To be fair, the Xbox 360's scaler can't hold a candle to modern scalers that use more complex algorithms. But your point is valid.

 

Actually thinking a bit more about it, this could be brilliant if handled right.
It can make snap mode much more desirable. Instead of shrinking the tv picture down to 480x272, on a 4K screen it would only need to go down to 960x544, retaining half of the 1080p tv stream instead of a quarter. The main game image then takes up 2880x1620. Maybe a future update can let you adjust the size of snap mode and get the option of 1440p next to 720p or even two full 1080p images. The best feature of my old 34" HD ready CRT tv was the ability to put ps2 and SD tv image next to each other with hardly any image quality loss on either.