How far do you sit from your TV? Is 1080p really that important over 900p

I sit about 7 feet away from my 32'' LED TV in my living room. I kind of regret I didn't go for 37'' one but me and my wife were tight on budget. At least the set is one of the best in its category. I don't sit on the sofa unless I'd push it slightly forwards and at the same time I'd have to the same to the cabinet with the TV. I'm talking about 1 feet for each. However, I stopped doing that coz my wife always pushes them back :D

Back when I had a PS3, I played on a monitor. Let's just say it wasn't pretty.

thats your mistake, monitors dont have upsacling hardware, those are usually made for pc and upscaling is usually done in the gpu, hence monitors only look good at native resolutions, and since ps3 runs mostly at 720p well, d'uh-

I sit about 4 feet away from my TV, but for me, it does not really matter. My gaming TV (Samsung UN32EH4003) in the bedroom is only 32 inches, and is only a 720p display.

Trust me, at 7 feet away, even 37 inches would still have been a bit too small, if you ask me. For example, I have a 42" TV in the living room, and I sit about 6 feet away, and at that size, it feels about right. At 7 feet, you could definitely get away with 46 inches, if not more.

For the record, just telling you for future reference. I get you work with what you got. As a kid, there were times I played video games on dying CRT monitor that had weird picture issues.

Is this the difference between 180ppi? Nah, no one cares... Will be system wars fodder for a good long time though.

Not far. Dunno how relevant it is but I can tell Splinter Cell Blacklist (PS3 version) is sub-HD just by looking. So maybe I would see the difference.

Blacklist looks really terrible - especially in the prologue, but it's also wildly inconsistent since there are good looking sections as well.

Sorry, I'm not used to measurement in feet, since I live in Europe. It's actually half that distance - so 3 or 3.5 feet at most! I found 5.5 feet to be maximum distance for 32''. 6 and more it's too much for this kind of distance. The TV set I got is Full HD capable and it's a really good one in its price range, I bought it exactly a year ago, it's a Samsung Smart TV UE32ES5500.

Yeah, I wasn't impressed with the graphics (although I'm very early in the game). GTA V looks better to me which is a megamassivehuge open world.

@Floppy_Jim:

That could also be because of other factors like low quality textures, bad aa implementation and so on. I know the reviews generally tended to point out the visuals looking outdated, so may be more than resolution. Its hard to really say a definitive without having two identical sources side by side, and then it might not even have the difference.

There are so many factors to playing on a TV with a console including the quality of the display itself all going to effect the overall outcome. A still image on a monitor (compressed jpeg no doubt) isn't the best judge and it isn't close to reality. Its like hearing 16-19KHz test tones by themselves saying you can hear them and they are extremely important, but add that into music them frequencies will be about 20-40db lower in volume to the main frequencies we are most sensitive too, and it becomes a non issue. While maybe not a perfect analogy there is more to music and there is more to how games will look than resolution (up to a point of course go too low and it becomes visible)

They think everyone is as blind as them

Really

These forums remind of the school playground.

It depends on how good your vision is that will determine how close you need to sit to a certain size display to see the full benefit of 1080p over 720p and not sitting close enough to see the full benefit does not mean you cannot see a partial benefit from increased resolution of course to far away and any benefit will disappear

.I have a 34" Sony Trinitron and even from 5 1/2-6ft with less then 20/20 vision I can see benefit of 1080p over 720p in a game like sleeping dogs maxed out and this is with 2xsupersampling AA and FXAA. There are less jaggies and a you get a more detailed and crisp image overall. And mind you this is with a HD CRT so it does not upscale the image at all. Next-gen games will be even more advanced then sleeping dogs and continue to get more advanced where there will be a greater benefit from higher resolutions

On Modern display technology the quality of your scaler can make a tremendous difference in how non native resolution looks for example in the 60" DLP in the living room PS3 games like MGS4 and Demon Souls look horrible on they look so much better played on my CRT. Games running in 1080p from my PC look so much better on the DLP compared to consoles.