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SvennoJ on 13 February 2017
CladInShadows said:
m_csquare said:

i rarely see ppl complain abt 1080p. But if they're complaining abt 720p display on large monitor, then I completely agree with them. 1080p has been consumer standard for a very very very long time. Heck most of the industry are already shifting to 4k. so yea, it's not illogical to expect something that's been standard for a long time.

The worst thing about 720p is the fact that it doesn't scale directly to a 1080p screen.  If we still had 720p TVs, it wouldn't look back.  But the scaling to 1080 causes the pixels to not be uniform in size, giving it a more ugly appearance than it should otherwise have.

I don't think there will be a lot of people who complain about 1080p. As resolution increases, there are diminishing returns.  But also, 1080p scales perfectly into 4K (and so does 720p, for that matter).

Non native res on PC monitors looks far worse than on TV displays. You sit right on top of your PC monitor which have very defined square pixels, while on tvs and projectors the pixel structure is far less noticeable. On PC monitors you also need better AA solutions as any aliasing issues are far more apparent. I hate having to turn the resolution back on my laptop, yet on TV and projector 720p looked fine for all of last gen.

1080p has that extra crispness, but in all fairness most 1080p games are still blurry as fuck nowadays with dof and motion blur effects. And even if they don't have that the low res textures start to stand out.

1080p does scale perfectly to 4K, yet what happens to the screendoor effect? Won't that be back with nice square pixels again?