Dumbstruck, HD-ready television question.

Okay so the thing is that I bought this 32" Philips TV (Philips PFL5404h 12). I was told at the store that it's HD-ready (only capable of 720p output? The product info says that it has a 1366x768p HD LCD screen). Now the PS3 and the 360 put 1080p as the default resolution. I can also choose 1080p through VGA from my PC. I'm wondering what's up? The TV's info screen also states 'HD 1080p' as the resolution (I'm running Jet Li's Fearless Blu-ray atm) and the internal manual says that it indeed has a Full-HD screen.

My sister has a 32" HD-ready Samsung and 720p is the highest resolution it can output. Can anyone enlighten me with this issue? Does it just downscale the picture or what?

Yes, it's simply downscaling it.

Yeah I just scanned through the HDTV sticky and I guess that's it.

Change your settings so that the XBOX and PS3 output 720p and you should get a better picture without the downscaling step. Basically, your PS3/360 are upscaling and then the TV is downscaling. Eliminate those 2 steps and theoretically you will have a better picture.rastan

I don't know. 1080p does look cleaner/sharper. 720p is kinda fuzzier, at least on the PS3 menus. Gotta check out the 360.

[QUOTE="rastan"]Change your settings so that the XBOX and PS3 output 720p and you should get a better picture without the downscaling step. Basically, your PS3/360 are upscaling and then the TV is downscaling. Eliminate those 2 steps and theoretically you will have a better picture.Epak_

I don't know. 1080p does look cleaner/sharper. 720p is kinda fuzzier, at least on the PS3 menus. Gotta check out the 360.

Well, do which ever one looks better, but I would have said Rastan's suggestion was definitely the best way. There could be a possibility for some video lag with the extra scaling going on, but if it's not noticable than don't worry about it.

Okay so the thing is that I bought this 32" Philips TV (Philips PFL5404h 12). I was told at the store that it's HD-ready (only capable of 720p output? The product info says that it has a 1366x768p HD LCD screen). Now the PS3 and the 360 put 1080p as the default resolution. I can also choose 1080p through VGA from my PC. I'm wondering what's up? The TV's info screen also states 'HD 1080p' as the resolution (I'm running Jet Li's Fearless Blu-ray atm) and the internal manual says that it indeed has a Full-HD screen.

My sister has a 32" HD-ready Samsung and 720p is the highest resolution it can output. Can anyone enlighten me with this issue? Does it just downscale the picture or what?

I also have a 32" LCD TV (LG Electronics 32LG3000) which according to the product specifications has a native resolution of 1366 x 768. I'm also a bit puzzled about the resolution my Xbox 360 produces. When I go to change the display settings and choose the "Optimal Resolution" option, it gets set to 1360 x 768.

I'm curious as to what happened to the 6 remaining pixels...

On another note, does having a higher resolution setting affect the performance of my games? Hmm...

[QUOTE="Epak_"]

Okay so the thing is that I bought this 32" Philips TV (Philips PFL5404h 12). I was told at the store that it's HD-ready (only capable of 720p output? The product info says that it has a 1366x768p HD LCD screen). Now the PS3 and the 360 put 1080p as the default resolution. I can also choose 1080p through VGA from my PC. I'm wondering what's up? The TV's info screen also states 'HD 1080p' as the resolution (I'm running Jet Li's Fearless Blu-ray atm) and the internal manual says that it indeed has a Full-HD screen.

My sister has a 32" HD-ready Samsung and 720p is the highest resolution it can output. Can anyone enlighten me with this issue? Does it just downscale the picture or what?

monson21502

Up until recently very few TV's under 40" were 1080p. Monitors are a different story. Size does have a lot to do with it in that the human eye needs to be within a certain distance for a set size TV to be able to distinguish the difference between 720p and 1080p. Monitors have had it on smaller screens longer as usually you sit very close to a computer monitor so the difference is noticeable in the larger screens available today (That still doesn't mean you necessarily want a 12" 1080p screen as that would make for some very tiny details that would be hard to see). For a 32" set, you would have to sit closer than 4' from it to see the difference between 720p and 1080p. Here's a reference chart http://s3.carltonbale.com/resolution_chart.htmlrastan

Exactly, but the distance must be within the human limits of vision or 1080p/720p are indistinguishable. The reason I say monitors are a different story is that normally you sit much closer to a monitor than a TV and as such the higher resolutions were available in smaller monitors before they ever became available on bigger TV's.rastan

[QUOTE="Epak_"]

Okay so the thing is that I bought this 32" Philips TV (Philips PFL5404h 12). I was told at the store that it's HD-ready (only capable of 720p output? The product info says that it has a 1366x768p HD LCD screen). Now the PS3 and the 360 put 1080p as the default resolution. I can also choose 1080p through VGA from my PC. I'm wondering what's up? The TV's info screen also states 'HD 1080p' as the resolution (I'm running Jet Li's Fearless Blu-ray atm) and the internal manual says that it indeed has a Full-HD screen.

My sister has a 32" HD-ready Samsung and 720p is the highest resolution it can output. Can anyone enlighten me with this issue? Does it just downscale the picture or what?

monson21502

I'm quite sure I can distinguish the difference between 32" and 42" :P

It just happens to support 1080p from 24Hz up to 60Hz but the actual screen resolution is still 1366x768p. Why not limit the resolution to 720p (or 1360x768|) like my sisters Samsung does?

I've had no lag or other problems with games so far.