Ken Burkstrum
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http://www.joystiq.com/2006/09/20/tg...-bullet-point/
I'm trying to figure this out. In the article they say that xbox 360 normal xbox games to HD. What confuses me is, don't TVs do that automatically to fit the image to the screen properly? If it's true, whats the point of taking 480p and upscaling it to 720p, the image quality wouldnt be any better right? They say xbox 360 is having a software update that lets you display in 1080p, but they said it will just "upscale" 720p and 1080i to 1080p. Again, what's the point exactly? I know that video games arent like DVDs, they are rendered on the spot so they can output at any resolution (system performance willing). Are systems different somehow? I always thought that normal xbox games couldnt be in high definition not because they werent made to, but because the original xbox and the dvd drive itself couldnt handle the performance requirements.
As far as I understand it. If you take a 480p image, and blow it up to 1080p, it doesnt look any better, it's just a 400,000 pixel image being represented with 2 million pixels.
Where am I wrong?
I would of thought they were just talking crap but yah know, normal xbox games look alot better on my monitor using 360 then they did with xbox, not HD good, but better. I always figured it was because my 360 uses a VGA or something, and....now...I'm just damn confused.
If you had a dvd scaled up to a billion pixels, the picture still wouldnt look any better right??? The screen door effect.
I'm trying to figure this out. In the article they say that xbox 360 normal xbox games to HD. What confuses me is, don't TVs do that automatically to fit the image to the screen properly? If it's true, whats the point of taking 480p and upscaling it to 720p, the image quality wouldnt be any better right? They say xbox 360 is having a software update that lets you display in 1080p, but they said it will just "upscale" 720p and 1080i to 1080p. Again, what's the point exactly? I know that video games arent like DVDs, they are rendered on the spot so they can output at any resolution (system performance willing). Are systems different somehow? I always thought that normal xbox games couldnt be in high definition not because they werent made to, but because the original xbox and the dvd drive itself couldnt handle the performance requirements.
As far as I understand it. If you take a 480p image, and blow it up to 1080p, it doesnt look any better, it's just a 400,000 pixel image being represented with 2 million pixels.
Where am I wrong?
I would of thought they were just talking crap but yah know, normal xbox games look alot better on my monitor using 360 then they did with xbox, not HD good, but better. I always figured it was because my 360 uses a VGA or something, and....now...I'm just damn confused.
If you had a dvd scaled up to a billion pixels, the picture still wouldnt look any better right??? The screen door effect.