I have a 46 inches TV and it is 1080p, and all the content looks better in 1080 than 720...Weird

HAHAHAHA lol

I guess a lot of people care about graphics lol. I'm serious we are at a point in history where picture quality can't get much better than it is now. Regardless on what HDTV you have the picture will be the same, and your watching the same media but for some reason people are touting 1080p being the best of the best.

I guess someone should make a thread about which system is has the best graphics in HD then.

I watch Blu-rays fine in 720p on my 20" and I play my PS3 and 360 in 720p and still think its better than 1080p. Maybe its because my HDTV is 20" and I don't have the 43"+ bragging rights.

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^As various others have explained, you have to factor in 3 parameters: the screen size, the watching distance and the resolution. Only from those 3 you get the apparent angular size of the single pixel, which is the absolute parameter that can be compared to your eye optical resolution.

In other words, it's perfectly possible that 720p an 1080p look completely identical to you on a 20" screen, depending on the distance. On the other hand, saying that 720p looks better than 1080p makes little sense, unless your screen is simply downscaling the 1080p to a lower native resolution and is not very good at that :)

You really think picture quality isn't going to get better?  What, ever?  Like not even in twenty years.

Why would you think 720p is better than 1080p?  720p is fine, but it's clearly not better than 1080p by any form of empirical judgement, why would you honestly think it's better?

So now we are trying to bring the console wars mentality to TV's. Don't worry about what other people tell you. As someone said, decide on your budget, forget the hype, go to the shop and try out a few of the TV's in your price range with different sources, decide which one looks best to your eyes and be happy with that. 

People talk about 720p this and 1080p that, viewing distances, 20/20 vision blah blah blah. I can't locate the paper at the moment but there is research to suggest that when subjectively judging TVs in a blind fashion, resolution is only about the 4th most important factor in judging image quality, with colour, contrast and (something else) all having a greater impact on people's perception of image quality.

Don't buy into the hype, a crap TV that can do 1080p is still going to be a crap TV.

@reasonable

Obiviously I'm stating my opinion from a 20" HDTV owner perspective. Because honestly I don't care about picture quality. If I put or anyone puts a 24" 1080p (and there are some out there) against a 24" 720p do you honestly think a average consumer would care less and not see a difference. Because I did just that at Best Buy the other day and I couldn't find a slight difference, unless your a tech junkie.

Picture quality for me is fine, even DVDs are fine for me and to this day I still by DVDs over Blu-rays because having a sharp picture means nothing to me. Aa long as it plays the movie and the picture is fine, I'm sold.

@hsrob

I totally agree and understand your perspective.

My opinion so don't take it personally

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Burn a DVD, and buy an old 2x DVD drive, and run it on your computer. No matter what, you are having huge frame drops. Any computer you say? Current computer, theres the key word there. Not every DVD player is current, though I guess you can argue those old DVD players don't even have HD outputs, however older drives for computers thats a null point. Also, lower bit-rate = higher compress = more powerful hardware to decompress and stream.

but again, none of that matters when it comes to my statement that medium doesn't matter for storing 1080p video (or showing it), as it is possible. Sure, none of it is reasonablely feasible, but nothing is stopping anyone from doing it. I can say that watching 1080p on a Blu-ray drive is impossible on a SDTV, but all I'm doing is artificially restricting hardware just like you are. Obviously if people were going to make HD capable DVD drives, they would make sure the bitrate and processor power was high enough to handle the video.

xlost4 said: @reasonable Obiviously I'm stating my opinion from a 20" HDTV owner perspective. Because honestly I don't care about picture quality. If I put or anyone puts a 24" 1080p (and there are some out there) against a 24" 720p do you honestly think a average consumer would care less and not see a difference. Because I did just that at Best Buy the other day and I couldn't find a slight difference, unless your a tech junkie. Picture quality for me is fine, even DVDs are fine for me and to this day I still by DVDs over Blu-rays because having a sharp picture means nothing to me. Aa long as it plays the movie and the picture is fine, I'm sold. @hsrob I totally agree and understand your perspective. My opinion so don't take it personally Sent via BlackBerry

Oh I can understand that.  I buy for my budget and room size, not to have the biggest!  I was just somewhat taken aback at your statement that we'd reached the end of picture quality and that the picture quality is better on the smaller TV - which you still have actually explained!