General High Def Gaming Question

i just bought a 26" samsung lcd hd tv today, i have my ps3 hooked up to it via hdmi and i have my ps3 set to 1080i.

But when i go to play games on it it looks like its running at a highly unoptimal resolution where the edges of everything look blurry and the amount of jaggies are really quite disapointing.

Its akin to when your playing a pc game on a big monitor at a crappy resolution and the picture doesnt look very sharp as a result. (best analogy i can come up with since i used to be a pc only gamer) maybe i'm expecting this to look as crisp as my pc games would run with a good video card at optimal resolutions or expected too much out of hd or there is a massive difference in graphics between LCD and plasma that i'm overlooking.

The majority of PS3 and 360 games only run at 720, not 1080. They will all get upscaled to 1080 and will have the same result as playing in a large screen with a lower than max resolution.

I dont think theres anything wrong with your image. If its possible, you can try showing us a picture, but things sound perfectly normaly, especially if you are used to the high crispness of PC gaming's resolutions.

If your TV is only 720p then set your PS3 to 720p not 1080i Also like someone else has already pointed out not all games run at 1080p. On PS3 Grand Tursismo 5 Prologue is the only game I have that runs in true 1080p, whilst other games may say so on the box it is misleading, it is saying it will run in 1080p mode not that it is actually running at 1080p. The big controversy is currently with GTA4 which only runs at 640p on PS3 and the jaggies are significant.

If you play GT5 Prologue on a 1080p TV then you will achieve a similar resolution to 1600x1024 on your monitor. It looks very sharp and very nice... Most other games running at 720p will be similar to 1280x768 on your monitor, but as your TV is gernerly bigger it may not look as sharp and most PS3/360 games lack any form of AA or AF so jaggis and image clarity is inferiror to the PC equivalents (As long as you have a good system).

I have a Core 2 Duo, 4gb ram GF8800GTx and after playing games like Crysis, Gears of War, even dirt on PC the graphics on my PS3/42" 1080p tv don't come close... with the exception of GT5 prologue that is... GTa4 looks pretty awful but its not about the graphics... the games amazing!