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1080i is for douchebags

720p > 1080i

The reason some people want 1080i support in games is because (although quite rare), there are TVs that have 1080i, but not 720p, so these people are forced to play games that only support 720p in SD, which sucks..

@Joe

That's a common misconception. The number (720 or 1080), is how many vertical rows of pixels the television has. Therefore, televisions that are capable of 1080i should be capable of 1080p. In this case, televisions that say they are 1080i are actually just televisions that can accept 1080i signal and downscale it to 720p, versus just rejecting the signal all together. Downscaling 1080i to 720p still brings in the interlacing issues with panning though, so you're basically left with a 720i signal. 1080i televisions are basically just marketing terms. A television either has 720 rows of pixels, or 1080.

@ BSprague

Incorrect. Early HDTVs (CRT and CRT rear projection) were in fact 1080i only and DISPLAYED in 1080i as well.

Phoenix and Joe are dead on - there are people I have known that had 480p/1080i TVs. Admittedly, though, I thought the PS3 was able to play any resolution on any other setting seeing as how I occasionally make the mistake of leaving my system on an improper setting (I switch for optimal settings from projector to monitor and for different games/movies) and the content plays just fine, if sometimes jaggy as sin.

Get a new TV. 1080i is chump.

I can attest to Phoenix2088's comment because I owned a rear projection [HD]TV that didn't have an HDMI port but could only accept an HD signal of 1080i through its DVI port. It's good I switched to an LCD HDTV when the PS3 started gaining momentum :)

Nope.

the PSP version is an entirely different game by another studio

honestly i like the psp costumes more
they seem more cutesy[sp?]

if you can afford to... keep the 360 and get the PS3, I am mainly a PS3 player and I will admit that I am glad I also have a 360 for the occasional exclusive.

Yeah, I'll save some money, sell a lot of my games, then just buy a used one, I could still talk to my friends off live.

Halo has to be one of the biggest games for custom content. Forge, Screenshots, Films, etc...

Yeah, two of my levels are unfinished just for that reason. I have to find crazy ways to destroy checkpoints just to be able to get sackboy to respawn there.

Dude, the lag isn't from the game but you. Go to your router settings, take off your firewall (You do have an anti-virus program on your PC?) and enable UPNP, then network test on PS3 and you should have Nat type 2.

And we still have water coming, imagine that! I think it'll give LBP a push of fresh new ways of creating levels with things that cope for water. Lets just hope that people can wait and not post whining posts everywhere, it must be close since MM already said it's coming, I mean. Why else would they tease us?

Err... whoops worse. I meant worse.

1080p is better than 720p. The big diference is whether you see the "p" or the"i" after the number. The "p" means that the image is "progressive scan" while the "i" means "interlaced".

Progressive scan is how computer monitors work: you are shown a full image, from the first pixel of every horizontal line on the left to the last pixel on the right, all at once just as if you were looking at a picture in your hand. This takes more processing than an interlaced image but produces better quality. The number (720 or 1080) indicates the number of horizontal lines present on that TV. The more lines you have the better resolution (and thus quality) you get as long as the source was recorded (or is processed) at the same resolution.

An interlaced TV, on the other hand, is based on the original technology used to display images on a cathode ray tube TV (CRT). Back in the dawn of TV, due to technical limitations, the creation of the image was split into two fields. That is, in a CRT monitor what looks like a complete image is actually created in two passes of "interlaced" fields. The cathode ray cannon first scans the first row of pixels starting with row 1 at the top left corner and moving all the way to the right. Once that line is activated it skips row 2 and jumps straight to row 3. It keeps doing this until all odd fields are activated (ending at field 719 on a 720i monitor). Once all odd fields are active it goes back to the top and starts scanning all the even fields starting with line 2 at the upper left corner.

Now, by the time the even fields have been activated the odd ones have turned off. The reason we don't see a gap is due to a property on our eyes known as Persistence of Vision. Bright images remain imprinted in our eyes for a bit longer after we stop looking at them as the chemical properties of the eyes go back to normal. Have you ever looked for several minutes at the drawing of a white ghost over a black paper only to turn your head to a wall and seeing the ghost floating there? That's persistence of vision working. On TV's because the scanning of the 2 fields are happening at milliseconds the image is completed in our eyes before we have the chance to see the gap. This is also used in film projections but for different reasons.

In regards to the quality between a 1080i and 1080p the difference is that because the interlaced image is made up of two halves of an image you are truly only getting half the resolution each time (half the lines for the odd fields and half for the even ones). Even if the TV has an upscaler to 1080p the only thing that is doing is taking the lines in one field and just repeating them on the other ones to fill the gap and show a progressive scan image. However since this was done by taking half the resolution of the image and duplicating it the final result is one half the resolution. If we were to put the output of a 1080i image into a progressive scan image we would get 540p. A 1080p is fully 1080p.

Hope that helps.

@ Pat

WOW... I wish I can shake your hand and thank you for that definition. Every time I try to figure out what the difference is, unknown lingo is always used which gets me more confused. But you used no lingo plus gave examples. Damn that was fantastic!

nice help there Pat! that was a surprisingly interesting read...