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That leaves us with 720P and 1080P. But you have to be more specific and get in to framerates like this article talks about. I think the more important thing for a gamer is framerates... all those pixels aren't that glorious if I'm not pulling enough fps. For a fast action game like halo 2 (or 3) I would say that 720P/60FPS would be more adventageous than 1080P/30FPS. Of course this is all speculation as I haven't seen and played 1080P.

Now when we are able to play 1080P/60FPS.... oh man, will that be great!

PS, when playing halo 2 on my 360 if there is too much action on the screen my framerate will drop noticeably. Anybody else have that?]]>Feb 22nd 2006 9:50AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/21/major-nelson-asks-whats-best-for-gaming-720p-1080i-or-1080p/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/21/major-nelson-asks-whats-best-for-gaming-720p-1080i-or-1080p/
Can't say I've noticed, but it wouldn't suprise me. Emulation is a very resouorce intensive task. Take a game that was pushing the Xbox to it's limits, then run that in an emulator - you're bound to have frame rate issues. The fix? Halo 3! I'm anticipating that game more than I really should. So much of my life has been lost to Halo 2 that I should really hope for no Halo 3. It's a sickness.]]>Feb 22nd 2006 12:51PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/21/major-nelson-asks-whats-best-for-gaming-720p-1080i-or-1080p/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/21/major-nelson-asks-whats-best-for-gaming-720p-1080i-or-1080p/Feb 22nd 2006 1:52PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/21/major-nelson-asks-whats-best-for-gaming-720p-1080i-or-1080p/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/21/major-nelson-asks-whats-best-for-gaming-720p-1080i-or-1080p/BUT it requires LOTS AND LOTS of bandwidth/speed/power and memory to run at that resuloution. So many games will stay with 720p so they can still have other features like AI, collisions, physics and other fun game things.]]>Feb 22nd 2006 2:32PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/21/major-nelson-asks-whats-best-for-gaming-720p-1080i-or-1080p/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/21/major-nelson-asks-whats-best-for-gaming-720p-1080i-or-1080p/
Of course 1080p is better, but there's nothing wrong with 720p.]]>Feb 22nd 2006 5:46PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/21/major-nelson-asks-whats-best-for-gaming-720p-1080i-or-1080p/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/21/major-nelson-asks-whats-best-for-gaming-720p-1080i-or-1080p/Feb 22nd 2006 10:08PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/21/major-nelson-asks-whats-best-for-gaming-720p-1080i-or-1080p/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/21/major-nelson-asks-whats-best-for-gaming-720p-1080i-or-1080p/
What makes you think that?

Halo 1? Locked at 30fps.

Halo 2? Locked at 30fps.

I'll go out on a limb here and guess that Halo 3, assuming it exists and Bungie is working on it right now, is targeting a framerate locked at 30fps.

The entire philosophy of Halo's graphics engine, from the start, has not been to maximize the number of frames per second or to maximize the output resolution, but to maximize the number of texture passes on each frame.]]>Feb 23rd 2006 10:21PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/21/major-nelson-asks-whats-best-for-gaming-720p-1080i-or-1080p/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/21/major-nelson-asks-whats-best-for-gaming-720p-1080i-or-1080p/
p is for progressive scan, i is for interlaced
both can be 30 or 60, or 25, 50, even 24 i believe ;)

interlaced isn't good for games of course, because it generates interlace flickers ;) it is seen especially on sharp, vertical lines ;)

I have another question... Does someone knows if scaling 720p (1280x720) to 1024x768 (most popular in HDTV 42" plasmas) is THAT bad? But does 1024x768 have some other issues with viewing 720p, than a little drop in the resolution?

Write me if u know the answer or have some examples... fredro@autograf.pl]]>Mar 8th 2006 1:34AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/21/major-nelson-asks-whats-best-for-gaming-720p-1080i-or-1080p/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/21/major-nelson-asks-whats-best-for-gaming-720p-1080i-or-1080p/
Yes scaling a 720p image to 1024x768 is very bad, Firstly one is a 16:9 resolution whilst the other is 4:3. Secondly a 720p image doesnt even have 768 lines of horizontal information, so that has to be 'inserted' into teh image somehow (or leave black bars) and at the same time the 1280 is scaled down to 1024 leaving a distorted image.

I personally wouldnt even call 1024x768 high definition.]]>Mar 26th 2006 4:34AM