best settings for hdtv and xbox. mine supports 1080i

im curious because i really dont know the difference between 720p and 1080i. all of my games play fine with 1080i. i noticed when playing fallout 3 that it tends to get slow. i was wondering is it my tv or is it just the game.

Don't take dante's word for it. 720p is not always better than 1080i. It depends on the TV. The screen resolution you choose should also not effect your game's performance, so it's probably just Fallout creating the slowdown.SteeleInd

Play at your television's native resolution.Staryoshi87

[QUOTE="Staryoshi87"]Play at your television's native resolution.spazpol

how big is your tv? 720p is actually better than 1080i Dante2710

its a 32 inch sharp. yeah i just have no idea about all the 1080i 720p stuff.its one of the new sharp tvs

[QUOTE="Dante2710"]how big is your tv? 720p is actually better than 1080i patrickhorta87

its a 32 inch sharp. yeah i just have no idea about all the 1080i 720p stuff.its one of the new sharp tvs

meh...i have my 360 setup on a 51" rear projection on 1080i...whereas i have my PS3 hooked up to a 42" LG Plasma on 720p. I dont see a difference at all between the 2.

I personally think 720p and 1080i look identical.

This is one of the stupidest arguments ever, this is like the guys who say records are better than MP3's. There are points for this and that but I can't carry a million records with me so who cares. look the difference between 720p and 1080i is just this 720P has a resolution of 1280x720(wide-screen) the p stands for progressive which means that every line is refreshed top to bottom every cycle. Depending on your television this could be anywhere between 60times a second up to as much as 120times a second. (60hz=60times, 85hz=85times, etc.)

1080i is 1920x1080 (wide-screen) the i stands for interlaced which means every other line is refreshed each cycle. (Evens first cycle, odds the second.) I'm not sure if a television that refreshes 85 times a second is going to really see degradation on a picture doing every other line on a signal that is 30 frames a second at 60hz (television standard) I'm also not sure how much difference there will be between 1280x720 and 1920x1080 on televisions that by their very nature deinterlace and smooth pictures (as all television signals are interlaced and many televisions smooth to compensate for noise in antenna broadcasts.)(Though admittedly some no longer smooth with digital signals and the picture on a 1080i may be a little darker due to each line being skipped every cycle but this would still depend upon the cycle of your television it may not.) Please make up your own mind and end this stupid argument.

Sidenote: There are no 1080p atleast in the US, there are only 720p and 1080i, 1080i being the dominantly used.

whats the best brightness an contrass for my vizio i have my 360 on 720 because thats what it says its recomended.my vizio is 42 inches an i hatch hd all the time but when i look at pictures of nba 2k10 an that stuff it looks better than what it looks on my tv. i put it on 1080 but it jus makes the game wider. What shoud I DO?

Play at your television's native resolution.Staryoshi87

1080p>720p>1080i generallychaoscougar1

[QUOTE="chaoscougar1"]1080p>720p>1080i generallymitu123