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Do you consider 720p to be a viable res for gaming in 2020?

Yes 27 55.10%
 
No 22 44.90%
 
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curl-6 on 02 April 2020
Pemalite said:
curl-6 said:

Our area's still not on NBN; not looking forward to what I'm told is a very painful process of changing over in the next couple months.

Was smooth and trouble-free for me. Hopefully you win the node lottery.

Yeah hope so. I just heard horror stories from a few friends and colleagues about being left without internet for weeks during the transition. Which would suck especially during this time when I'm stuck at home permanently. And thanks.



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Pemalite on 02 April 2020
curl-6 said:
Pemalite said:

Was smooth and trouble-free for me. Hopefully you win the node lottery.

Yeah hope so. I just heard horror stories from a few friends and colleagues about being left without internet for weeks during the transition. Which would suck especially during this time when I'm stuck at home permanently. And thanks.

Mine was offline for about 15 minutes. Took me longer to set-up the new Asus VDSL modem. :P



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curl-6 on 02 April 2020
Pemalite said:
curl-6 said:

Yeah hope so. I just heard horror stories from a few friends and colleagues about being left without internet for weeks during the transition. Which would suck especially during this time when I'm stuck at home permanently. And thanks.

Mine was offline for about 15 minutes. Took me longer to set-up the new Asus VDSL modem. :P

Damn I really hope mine goes that smoothly. Normally I wouldn't bother til after the pandemic's over but I think they're cutting off ADSL in like September.



hunter_alien on 02 April 2020
Pemalite said:
Ultravolt said:

"HD" is just an advertising name, it's not important.

1440P isn't HD either. It's Quad-High Definition or sometimes referred to as 2k.

And to add to the confusion Full HD is also sometimes referred to as 2K : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1080p

So yeah, its an advertising name and nothing more. Lately, we see a trend to push more "quality" pixels rather than "quantity" pixels anyways, as we see less and less return by simply pumping up the numbers. I had the chance my first native 8K content on an 8K screen a couple of months ago, and man is it underwhelming. If you don't plan to buy a >200cm diagonal TV, forget about it.



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Conina on 03 April 2020
hunter_alien said:
Pemalite said:

"HD" is just an advertising name, it's not important.

1440P isn't HD either. It's Quad-High Definition or sometimes referred to as 2k.

And to add to the confusion Full HD is also sometimes referred to as 2K : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1080p

So yeah, its an advertising name and nothing more. Lately, we see a trend to push more "quality" pixels rather than "quantity" pixels anyways, as we see less and less return by simply pumping up the numbers. I had the chance my first native 8K content on an 8K screen a couple of months ago, and man is it underwhelming. If you don't plan to buy a >200cm diagonal TV, forget about it.

I never understood people who refer to 2560x1440 as 2K.
2.5K or 2.6K would make much more sense.

If 3840 is rounded up to 4000 (4K), then of course 1920 also has to be rounded up to 2000 (2K).



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DonFerrari on 03 April 2020
Conina said:
hunter_alien said:

And to add to the confusion Full HD is also sometimes referred to as 2K : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1080p

So yeah, its an advertising name and nothing more. Lately, we see a trend to push more "quality" pixels rather than "quantity" pixels anyways, as we see less and less return by simply pumping up the numbers. I had the chance my first native 8K content on an 8K screen a couple of months ago, and man is it underwhelming. If you don't plan to buy a >200cm diagonal TV, forget about it.

I never understood people who refer to 2560x1440 as 2K.
2.5K or 2.6K would make much more sense.

If 3840 is rounded up to 4000 (4K), then of course 1920 also has to be rounded up to 2000 (2K).

For me 2k was basically 1920p but on a different aspect ratio.



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Pemalite on 03 April 2020
Conina said:
hunter_alien said:

And to add to the confusion Full HD is also sometimes referred to as 2K : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1080p

So yeah, its an advertising name and nothing more. Lately, we see a trend to push more "quality" pixels rather than "quantity" pixels anyways, as we see less and less return by simply pumping up the numbers. I had the chance my first native 8K content on an 8K screen a couple of months ago, and man is it underwhelming. If you don't plan to buy a >200cm diagonal TV, forget about it.

I never understood people who refer to 2560x1440 as 2K.
2.5K or 2.6K would make much more sense.

If 3840 is rounded up to 4000 (4K), then of course 1920 also has to be rounded up to 2000 (2K).

It's just a natural progression.

2k is 1440P or 4x 720P or QHD.
4k is 2160P or 4x 1080P or QFHD.

Sure 2.5k could be used, either way... I will probably personally keep calling it 1440P and 4k... 2160P out of convenience.



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curl-6 on 03 April 2020

I hypothesize that in my case it's probably cos these days most gamers have a bigger TV than me and sit closer to it, plus I suppose if others have been playing on PS4 Pro, PC, and Xbox One X for years and are used to resolutions above 1080p, 720p would look worse by comparison.

Like I say, I sit 3 meters back from a 42 inch screen. Dunno what the mathematics say about that, but I find it's not til games hit sub-HD ranges like 648p or 540p that they start to look notably blurry, and even then it's still playable, just not optimal.



DonFerrari on 04 April 2020
curl-6 said:

I hypothesize that in my case it's probably cos these days most gamers have a bigger TV than me and sit closer to it, plus I suppose if others have been playing on PS4 Pro, PC, and Xbox One X for years and are used to resolutions above 1080p, 720p would look worse by comparison.

Like I say, I sit 3 meters back from a 42 inch screen. Dunno what the mathematics say about that, but I find it's not til games hit sub-HD ranges like 648p or 540p that they start to look notably blurry, and even then it's still playable, just not optimal.

2m or less you need 4k on 65"more or less.

I would say 3m, 42" you can be satisfied with 720p.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

curl-6 on 04 April 2020
DonFerrari said:
curl-6 said:

I hypothesize that in my case it's probably cos these days most gamers have a bigger TV than me and sit closer to it, plus I suppose if others have been playing on PS4 Pro, PC, and Xbox One X for years and are used to resolutions above 1080p, 720p would look worse by comparison.

Like I say, I sit 3 meters back from a 42 inch screen. Dunno what the mathematics say about that, but I find it's not til games hit sub-HD ranges like 648p or 540p that they start to look notably blurry, and even then it's still playable, just not optimal.

2m or less you need 4k on 65"more or less.

I would say 3m, 42" you can be satisfied with 720p.

Ah, found the chart I was looking for, and sure enough it looks like 42 inches at 3 meters falls right in the middle of "720p worth it".