1080i or 720p

All PS3 games play at 720p but few do actualy play at 1080i till some fixes come around but I play Tekken DR at 1080i and it looks awsome, Ridge Racer was looking pretty good as well.

I playing Ridge Racer in 1080i ...only one thing to sai ..wow  1080i better

All games will play at least 720p and under. But most PS3 games will now play 1080i and under.

1080i is better than 720p! But 1080p is better than 1080i

Real HD is 1080p Only on the PS3 thanks to blu-ray!

Just get a TV that displays both.lol

Just get a TV that displays both.lol

 

killerkane246

The only tvs that can display both are 1080p ones, then you might as well do 1080p.

Yes there are tvs that say they support 720p and 1080i, but keep in mind that's support, while the tv's display is actually 720p or 768p, so it converts 1080i down. 

 So basically again, there's no tv that can display both 1080i and 720p, it's one or the other unless it's a 1080p tv. In some cases a 768p might look better with 1080i since that holds more detail downscaled into 768p than upscaling 720p to 768p.

[QUOTE="killerkane246"]

Just get a TV that displays both.lol

 

TimothyB

The only tvs that can display both are 1080p ones, then you might as well do 1080p.

Yes there are tvs that say they support 720p and 1080i, but keep in mind that's support, while the tv's display is actually 720p or 768p, so it converts 1080i down. 

 So basically again, there's no tv that can display both 1080i and 720p, it's one or the other unless it's a 1080p tv. In some cases a 768p might look better with 1080i since that holds more detail downscaled into 768p than upscaling 720p to 768p.

[QUOTE="TimothyB"][QUOTE="killerkane246"]

Just get a TV that displays both.lol

 

ghaleon0721

The only tvs that can display both are 1080p ones, then you might as well do 1080p.

Yes there are tvs that say they support 720p and 1080i, but keep in mind that's support, while the tv's display is actually 720p or 768p, so it converts 1080i down.

So basically again, there's no tv that can display both 1080i and 720p, it's one or the other unless it's a 1080p tv. In some cases a 768p might look better with 1080i since that holds more detail downscaled into 768p than upscaling 720p to 768p.

A 720p only tv will support 1080i because if it didn't it wouldn't work with have the video out there. Just like how it supports 480p input and other resolutions. So even if on the screen it says it's displaying 1080i doesn't really mean that, it's only telling you the signal, but it physically can't show 1080i if it doesn't have the resolution, and no progressive tv would run in an interlaced mode. Either you have a 1280*720 to 1366*768 progressive tv, or you have a CRT 1080i tv that supports 720p, but again it would have to convert that to 1080i. Again, the tv can only do one. There may be some cases of older CRT Tube HDTVs, but really, now-a-days, it's one or the other. So what is your tv?

well im currently on 1080i and its pretty awesome soo id go wid dat

My HDTV run play up to 720p but games somehow look alittle better on 1080i which is the better resoultion?jamesb215

That depends on the native resolution of the TV. Set the PS3 to run at the same res as your tv's native res.

Hi,

I just bought a Sony Bravia 32" S2530 720p tv. And i just bought the blu-ray movie Open Season to test the quality of the TV. When my ps3 is set to 720p, the movie will automaticly downscale to 480p. When i set the ps3 to 1080i, the movie itself is 1080i. The quality is amazing btw. My question: Is the movie itself running on 720p or 1080i? So again, when im wathing Open Season, it says that it's running on 1080i. The maximum resolution of my tv is 1366*768.

Greetz,
nooby

Hi,

I just bought a Sony Bravia 32" S2530 720p tv. And i just bought the blu-ray movie Open Season to test the quality of the TV. When my ps3 is set to 720p, the movie will automaticly downscale to 480p. When i set the ps3 to 1080i, the movie itself is 1080i. The quality is amazing btw. My question: Is the movie itself running on 720p or 1080i? So again, when im wathing Open Season, it says that it's running on 1080i. The maximum resolution of my tv is 1366*768.

Greetz,
nooby

noooby

The tv takes the 1080i signal and shrinks it down to 1366*768, so your still getting as good or better image as 720p since this way you end up with a 768p image. 

Progressive > Interlaced ALWAYS!guyhunter

 High resolution > low resolution.

Progressive > Interlaced ALWAYS!guyhunter

How can you say that? There are too many variables. Not like one tv does both 720p and 1080i, so usually the best resolution to use is the one native to the tv. A 1080i tv, use 1080i and so on and 1080i would look great because to your human eye you think you are seeing a full 1080p image. Then a 1080p TV, giving that 1080i from say a Blu-ray will actually result in 1080p because 1080i60 is the same as 1080p at 30fps.

All the 1080p tv needs to do is inverse teceline to convert that 1080i back to progressive. In that case, 1080i is basically1080p, obviously better than 720p. Progressive is not always better than Interlaced unless comparing the same resolution, like 1080i60 vs 1080p60. And like the other poster, higher res > low res works better.

Even the PS3 to do 1080p playback from blu-ray must first convert 1080p24 off the disc to 1080i60 then to 1080p60, so it's actually 1080i at one point in the process.  Thats the way it works except in cases of players that output 1080p24 straight from the disc.

[QUOTE="guyhunter"]Progressive > Interlaced ALWAYS!TimothyB

How can you say that? There are too many variables. Not like one tv does both 720p and 1080i, so usually the best resolution to use is the one native to the tv. A 1080i tv, use 1080i and so on and 1080i would look great because to your human eye you think you are seeing a full 1080p image. Then a 1080p TV, giving that 1080i from say a Blu-ray will actually result in 1080p because 1080i60 is the same as 1080p at 30fps.

All the 1080p tv needs to do is inverse teceline to convert that 1080i back to progressive. In that case, 1080i is basically1080p, obviously better than 720p. Progressive is not always better than Interlaced unless comparing the same resolution, like 1080i60 vs 1080p60. And like the other poster, higher res > low res works better.

Even the PS3 to do 1080p playback from blu-ray must first convert 1080p24 off the disc to 1080i60 then to 1080p60, so it's actually 1080i at one point in the process.  Thats the way it works except in cases of players that output 1080p24 straight from the disc.

[QUOTE="TimothyB"]

[QUOTE="guyhunter"]Progressive > Interlaced ALWAYS!captainhowdy23

How can you say that? There are too many variables. Not like one tv does both 720p and 1080i, so usually the best resolution to use is the one native to the tv. A 1080i tv, use 1080i and so on and 1080i would look great because to your human eye you think you are seeing a full 1080p image. Then a 1080p TV, giving that 1080i from say a Blu-ray will actually result in 1080p because 1080i60 is the same as 1080p at 30fps.

All the 1080p tv needs to do is inverse teceline to convert that 1080i back to progressive. In that case, 1080i is basically1080p, obviously better than 720p. Progressive is not always better than Interlaced unless comparing the same resolution, like 1080i60 vs 1080p60. And like the other poster, higher res > low res works better.

Even the PS3 to do 1080p playback from blu-ray must first convert 1080p24 off the disc to 1080i60 then to 1080p60, so it's actually 1080i at one point in the process. Thats the way it works except in cases of players that output 1080p24 straight from the disc.

If it's a 720p tv that can accept 1080i, that's still good. I mean, if all games were 1080p, and all HD movies razor sharp to take advantage of 1080p, then I might want it. But as it is, 720p HD movies still look great at 55inches, and most games are 720p. In 3 years there will probably be a better type of tv and all 1080p for less than I paid for my 720p tv.

[QUOTE="guyhunter"]Progressive > Interlaced ALWAYS!TimothyB

How can you say that? There are too many variables. Not like one tv does both 720p and 1080i, so usually the best resolution to use is the one native to the tv. A 1080i tv, use 1080i and so on and 1080i would look great because to your human eye you think you are seeing a full 1080p image. Then a 1080p TV, giving that 1080i from say a Blu-ray will actually result in 1080p because 1080i60 is the same as 1080p at 30fps.

All the 1080p tv needs to do is inverse teceline to convert that 1080i back to progressive. In that case, 1080i is basically1080p, obviously better than 720p. Progressive is not always better than Interlaced unless comparing the same resolution, like 1080i60 vs 1080p60. And like the other poster, higher res > low res works better.

Even the PS3 to do 1080p playback from blu-ray must first convert 1080p24 off the disc to 1080i60 then to 1080p60, so it's actually 1080i at one point in the process.  Thats the way it works except in cases of players that output 1080p24 straight from the disc.

[QUOTE="captainhowdy23"][QUOTE="TimothyB"]

[QUOTE="guyhunter"]Progressive > Interlaced ALWAYS!TimothyB

How can you say that? There are too many variables. Not like one tv does both 720p and 1080i, so usually the best resolution to use is the one native to the tv. A 1080i tv, use 1080i and so on and 1080i would look great because to your human eye you think you are seeing a full 1080p image. Then a 1080p TV, giving that 1080i from say a Blu-ray will actually result in 1080p because 1080i60 is the same as 1080p at 30fps.

All the 1080p tv needs to do is inverse teceline to convert that 1080i back to progressive. In that case, 1080i is basically1080p, obviously better than 720p. Progressive is not always better than Interlaced unless comparing the same resolution, like 1080i60 vs 1080p60. And like the other poster, higher res > low res works better.

Even the PS3 to do 1080p playback from blu-ray must first convert 1080p24 off the disc to 1080i60 then to 1080p60, so it's actually 1080i at one point in the process. Thats the way it works except in cases of players that output 1080p24 straight from the disc.

If it's a 720p tv that can accept 1080i, that's still good. I mean, if all games were 1080p, and all HD movies razor sharp to take advantage of 1080p, then I might want it. But as it is, 720p HD movies still look great at 55inches, and most games are 720p. In 3 years there will probably be a better type of tv and all 1080p for less than I paid for my 720p tv.

The blu ray movie can't display in 720p what;s so ever. The only way to get most out of blu ray is set tv at 1080i or 1080p. If u set it at 720p , blu ray movies can't view under that resolution so i just downscale to 480p which sucks. So if u have 720p tv, u need to set it to 1080i which looks amazing still , not so much worse than 1080pziweiwu

Well yes, that's with the PS3 only, any other Blu-ray player can convert down to 720p.

And what do you mean not so much worse than 1080p? You do realize just because a tv supports 1080i doesn't mean it displays 1080i. So while the PS3 can't lower the movies to 720p, your tv will when you give it the 1080i signal. So you area still ending up with something like 720p, not 1080i. Unless you just meant to say 720p doesn't look that much worse than 1080p.

Too bad there's no big warning to most users that might disable 1080i because they only need 720p and think the movies look bad because it's actually at 480p without knowing. I wish they'd update the PS3 to have a separate resolution just for blu-ray because having to leave 1080i on for movies causes some games to play at 1080i when I would want it to be in 720p.

lol forgot the link. http://www.bizrate.com/televisiontv/sharp-aquos-lc-20s4u-20-in-flat-panel-lcd-tv--pid283107586/solidsnaketight

That one is not HD. It's 640*480, 480p, so SD not HD. And being fullscreen that makes it harder to watch widescreen stuff since it won't use the entire 480 lines because of black bars.

How much did you pay for that? There are 32inch LCDs that can do 720p widescreen in the $500-$600 range all the time now.

If you get component cables for the PS3 then you can do 480p, which will make games clear, better than a normal tv. If you are forced to watch something widescreen 16:9, that will fit to this tv at 640*360, which is 4 times less than the basic 720p, 9 times less than 1080p.

I wouldn't even call it an EDTV since that would need widescreen 852*480. 

i paid $450 but not really for and hd tv just wanted a flatS. thanks for telling me now i will go buy a big HD tv.solidsnaketight

This one is decent and Circuit City alternates the price from $899 to $599. I just got it and it's pretty good for the price and having a built in HD tuner for free HD cable channels.

http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/OLEVIA-32-2-Series-LCD-HDTV-232V/sem/rpsm/oid/163702/catOid/-12869/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do 

If you have or know someone with a AAA auto account you can get a coupon to use online and pick up at store to get 10% off a $200 purchase. So got it $540 plus tax. Then a week after K-mart had it for $499, so I got them to price match and with the 10% difference I ended up paying $495 plus tax. Some people got a good deal where when K-mart had the $499 price CC was at $899, so a match of 110% price difference came to $460.

My tv says it can do 1080i and 720p but it also says 1080i native only thru the hdmi connection so yea my tv is weird..

(for any of you wondering my tv is a philips wide screen flat panel plasma 42')

[QUOTE="jamesb215"]My HDTV run play up to 720p but games somehow look alittle better on 1080i which is the better resoultion?Unassigned

That depends on the native resolution of the TV. Set the PS3 to run at the same res as your tv's native res.

[QUOTE="killerkane246"]

Just get a TV that displays both.lol

 

TimothyB

The only tvs that can display both are 1080p ones, then you might as well do 1080p.

Yes there are tvs that say they support 720p and 1080i, but keep in mind that's support, while the tv's display is actually 720p or 768p, so it converts 1080i down.

So basically again, there's no tv that can display both 1080i and 720p, it's one or the other unless it's a 1080p tv. In some cases a 768p might look better with 1080i since that holds more detail downscaled into 768p than upscaling 720p to 768p.

wait what r u talking about  my HDTV supports both 720p and 1080i, but not 1080p. u should get ur facts straight!!! and also, the thing is that 1080p TVs cost like 4000-5000 dollars.