Playstation 2 Question

[useless]

1080i at times gets washed out... 1080p is nice but if you see the cost of PS3 games suggested at $60-100 its going to be a very expensive game.

right now a LCD TV seems like the best bang for the buck in terms of gaming, but to be honest 480p by default uses 4xAA unlike 720p's 2xAA... so you dont loose out too much unless you are a high-res freak.

 

[BCO]

Wow, HD is some seriously arcane sh*t. I'm so glad Wii doesn't support HD, makes my life easier

 

[useless]

rofl!

i hope Wii at least has progressive scan support!

 

[doobiwan]

Wii definitely does 480p (Gamecube does and it's already been confirmed).
BUT that is NTSC ED. PAL ED is 576p, which the Wii won't support.

So is standard def PAL 576i better than "ED" 480p?

Doh! Whatever happened to simplicity I ask you!

 

[BCO]

*cries*

 

[useless]

its all due to the PAL and NTSC regulations... argh!

but note that 576i runs @ 50hz, so game frame rate is @ 25fps, while 480p games run @ 60hz since its progressive.

i would go for 480p but perhaps the Wii is going to be region free and thus comply with US 480p standards?

 

[doobiwan]

Was pondering the whole 25Hz thing, and y'know, SD telly runs at 25hz and it's fine. We as gaming are tuned to think of 25hz as bad because we normally see it as an average FPS, which will dip a lot lower than that. The human eye can't see much better than that anyway. If the games are locked at 25hz it's no worse than just watch TV, as we do every night . . .

 

[bboy]

i was playing bf2 on 1080i from my pc on my plasma... the frame rate was certainly not LOW.. i think it was running at 30hz.. we hadn't sorted out the the res properly and all that.. but it was running fine!

 

[arf9999]

i was playing bf2 on 1080i from my pc on my plasma... the frame rate was certainly not LOW.. i think it was running at 30hz.. we hadn't sorted out the the res properly and all that.. but it was running fine!

what plasma do you have that can handle 1080i? it's probably just scaling to 720, and all panels de-interlace, so you'll end up with (ta-dah) 720p.