Ok, I have a Polaroid 32" LCD TV Model FLM-3201 (if you wanna research it.) Supposedly it supports up to 1080i (which it says in the manual.) I set my PS3 to the three following resolutions forgetting 1080i by mistake (480p 720p 1080p) I then played the ridge racer demo and for some and figured out that something seemed different. I then went back to my system configuration and disabled 1080p and enabled 1080i. I went back to ridge racer and I could see the line stuff people talk about when they have 1080i instead of 1080p... For some weird reason my 1080i TV supports 1080p... Has this happened to anyone else or am I just crazy??? If I sound stupid posting this topic please don't insult me I'm new to the whole HDTV thing. (P.S. I'm using an HDMI to DVI converter cable)Â
Any tv that is under 45" you wont be able to see the difference between 720p and 1080p unless you are some crazy videophile, my guess is your mind desperately wants you to 1080p so it lies to you. (also you should set your ps3 to 1080i if your have blu ray movies otherwise it will scale down to 480p.
i actually have a Westinghouse 32" LCD and it supports up to 1080i but it works in 1080p with the PS3. It actually looks alot different on 1080p then it does on 1080i or 720p
Any tv that is under 45" you wont be able to see the difference between 720p and 1080p unless you are some crazy videophile, my guess is your mind desperately wants you to 1080p so it lies to you. (also you should set your ps3 to 1080i if your have blu ray movies otherwise it will scale down to 480p.epic_nemesis
your TV is just scaling the 1080p output from the PS3 to 720p or what ever your native resolution is. It's not real 1080p. My TV will either scale input to 1080p or take a 1080p native feed, so if I set the PS3 to 720p or 1080i the TV just scales it to 1080p, same thing your TV is doing, just at a lower resolution.
Ok I understand what all you guys are saying about a scalar but when my tv is in 720p it says that its resolution is 1280*720 and when it's in so called 1080p its my tv shows that its resolution is 1920*1080 the difference would be 1,152,000 which i think is quite a big difference... Now can anyone explain that oh and btw i disabled 1080i so the PS3 won't switch to that resolution. Maybe I'm just crazy but really it isn't the difference between 720p and 1080p that i see its the difference between 1280*720 and 1920*1080.
Ok I understand what all you guys are saying about a scalar but when my tv is in 720p it says that its resolution is 1280*720 and when it's in so called 1080p its my tv shows that its resolution is 1920*1080 the difference would be 1,152,000 which i think is quite a big difference... Now can anyone explain that oh and btw i disabled 1080i so the PS3 won't switch to that resolution. Maybe I'm just crazy but really it isn't the difference between 720p and 1080p that i see its the difference between 1280*720 and 1920*1080. gamer2damax
don't have an answer for you......looking at that TV I don't see how it can support that resolution.....
specs listed
Resolution: 1366 x 768 Supported DTV Resolutions: 480i,480p,720p,1080i
Ok I understand what all you guys are saying about a scalar but when my tv is in 720p it says that its resolution is 1280*720 and when it's in so called 1080p its my tv shows that its resolution is 1920*1080 the difference would be 1,152,000 which i think is quite a big difference... Now can anyone explain that oh and btw i disabled 1080i so the PS3 won't switch to that resolution. Maybe I'm just crazy but really it isn't the difference between 720p and 1080p that i see its the difference between 1280*720 and 1920*1080. gamer2damax
This is really simple. You have a low budget end LCD, you simply do not have the pixels to display 1080p content for starters. Almost any set can take a random number of resolutions in and convert them to their native res. Therefore, most LCDs can handle any resolution and then scale it to 720p. Your set is not displaying 1080p nor can it display 1080i, everything is converted to the resolution of your panel no matter what you do. Any difference you are seeing is likely to be negative since the set has to do more scaling (which a cheap scaler) and you should stick to feeding the set its native resolution. If you continue to think that a scaled image looks better, you might as well not own an HDTV.
Well ok scaled image got it. My TV is lying to me saying its displayed in 1920*1080. DAMN YOU LCD HDTV... Please mods lock this topic now b4 any more shame comes to me...
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