HD Vs. SD picture thread

The difference is in small details...

You are looking at the same picture on both screens...

On an SD screen at SD resolution... you are looking at the picture at the definition of 480i (480x720) which is 345,600 total pixels to make up the picture...

On an HD screen at HD resolutions... you are looking at either 720p (720x1280) which is 921,600 total pixels to create the image or 1080p (1080x1920) which is 2,073,600 total pixels to create the image...

So in the end you have the same picture, but at a higher definition which is a higher resolution... you are viewing the same image made up many times the number of pixels used before so things like lines... which before were only a few pixels wide... are now dozens of pixels wide and clearer and easier to see... HD just makes the image sharper... it would be like on a game for PC... you increase the texture detail which makes the lines harder and less dull... HD is the same... it makes things more easy to see...

This is one of the problems with games now... games like "Dead Rising" were made for HD and the letters in the subtitles were not very big, but in HD they were clear and easy to read simply because of the amount of pixels used in them... then on an SD screen... the same letters in the subtitles were almost non-existent... there were barely any pixels at all used to make up the letters and although they were visible... they weren't legible at all because they were on a few pixels by a few pixels in size... so you knew they were there... but the human eye couldn't make them out into a recognisable image...

I recomend you buy a monitor that supports 1050/1680 resolution and the VGA attachment kit... then yu can set the resolution to 1080x1920 on the Xbox and see little difference... when that many pixels are used in the image... the human brain can't distiguish between a difference in verticle resolution as little as 30 pixels... so it would be as if you were playing in 1080p for barely a fraction of the price... I have 4 22" monitors in my setup and all of them combined cost just under $900 which is far less than the 61" Samsung DLP in my living room that I paid $2800 for... yet each one supports 1080p which is the same resolution of the 61" TV...

no way of getting SDTV pics, but once you go HD you will be like "OMG... WTF was I doing by staying with that old TV for so long"rbreckel

There is a way... go to google image and search for 480x720... that is an SD picture... then search for 1080x1920... that is an HD picture...

No Comparison...

There is a way... go to google image and search for 480x720... that is an SD picture... then search for 1080x1920... that is an HD picture... Squeets

Woops, what I should have said was "there is no way forME to give SDTV pics from my system... sorry for the confusion.

This is a scale representation of the resolution of a standard def and a high def tv

I found a couple pics that shows the difference between HD and SD:

Lord of the Rings SD vs. HD (mouse over each SD pic to see the HD version)

I'm sure you'll be able to find comparisons on the .Net somewhere - but I can tell you, HD video is incredible. The difference is mindblowing when you first turn on your Xbox 360 or other HD source. You'll never want to see an SD picture again after the upgrade.Aaron89

yeah i looked about before i upgraded and every photo i seen didnt do it justice at all, cud hardly tell the difference, coz most of the pictures are done in lower res than the hd so u dont see it properly.

trust me its definetally worth it. if you can play games on ur pc, its like turning the resoloutiion up so its much sharper , more detail. where i got to see the real difference was when i was in gamestation and they xbox had transformers on it on a small hd screen, i had the game at the time and thought whats going on mine dont look nothing like that. next thing i did was get the vga lead and used my monitor to get similar results and now on a 1080p trust me before u aint seen it then its hard to imagine what the fuss is about but honestly you will notice the difference and its not worth not getting the tv until u see it as you will not be disapointed.

haha that picture reminds me of the movies off xbox live, i donwloaded the sd version of 300 when it was 100 points, then thought lets play with the display options see if they a better ratio for my tv, and one was the raw ratio and it shrank the video down to small rectangle in the middle of screen, same sorta shape as compared to that image. then remermber pics like that.

to the guy that made the thread, if u can afford the tv then u will see the difference. without it then compare ur games to those that last come out on the xbox1 or ps2,. the games with the best graphics and its same resoloution just with more polygons, so the graphics are better, but they really come to life in the hd resolotuions. as long as u got one thats hd ready then you should be fine as alot of games dont utilize the 1080 as much as they should do. most just upscale the 720 image up which dont add as much as it wud if they made proper 1080 graphics.

HD is mindblowing, and completely changes the way you view and play games.

HD is worth it. There is absolutely no comparison on SD vs HD. Once you go HD, you'll get queezy just looking at an SD set for 5 minutes.

^^^480p ^^^

^^^more 480p ^^^

^^^720p^^^

^^^also 720p^^^

I see the difference.

you can get a full hd tv for under 1600 now a days... i would say it is worth it to go with the better quality hd's because you will WILL get an extra 2 years or so, i had a 19 inch rca and a 19 inch sharp, the rca died after 3 years and the sharp is stilll mint after 5 years. that could be just me.. and i got them when they where 1.2k ish for a 19 inch lol!

bah to lazy to retype so ill just say there 23 inches.

The difference is in small details...

You are looking at the same picture on both screens...

On an SD screen at SD resolution... you are looking at the picture at the definition of 480i (480x720) which is 345,600 total pixels to make up the picture...

On an HD screen at HD resolutions... you are looking at either 720p (720x1280) which is 921,600 total pixels to create the image or 1080p (1080x1920) which is 2,073,600 total pixels to create the image...

So in the end you have the same picture, but at a higher definition which is a higher resolution... you are viewing the same image made up many times the number of pixels used before so things like lines... which before were only a few pixels wide... are now dozens of pixels wide and clearer and easier to see... HD just makes the image sharper... it would be like on a game for PC... you increase the texture detail which makes the lines harder and less dull... HD is the same... it makes things more easy to see...

This is one of the problems with games now... games like "Dead Rising" were made for HD and the letters in the subtitles were not very big, but in HD they were clear and easy to read simply because of the amount of pixels used in them... then on an SD screen... the same letters in the subtitles were almost non-existent... there were barely any pixels at all used to make up the letters and although they were visible... they weren't legible at all because they were on a few pixels by a few pixels in size... so you knew they were there... but the human eye couldn't make them out into a recognisable image...

I recomend you buy a monitor that supports 1050/1680 resolution and the VGA attachment kit... then yu can set the resolution to 1080x1920 on the Xbox and see little difference... when that many pixels are used in the image... the human brain can't distiguish between a difference in verticle resolution as little as 30 pixels... so it would be as if you were playing in 1080p for barely a fraction of the price... I have 4 22" monitors in my setup and all of them combined cost just under $900 which is far less than the 61" Samsung DLP in my living room that I paid $2800 for... yet each one supports 1080p which is the same resolution of the 61" TV...

Squeets

yeah dude i did excatly what you said i bought a 24 inch widscreen samsung monitor at 1050/1680and used vgaand set the setting to 1080/1920 the picture is breath taking. the great thing about it was the monitor was only 309 dollars. i got a sweet deal.

You don't need to ask for Pictures to see a difference.

The Difference is beyond huge for the majority of the games. Once you see it, its very hard to even attempt to try SD again.

Its like Watching Sports in HD also. Foodball, Hockey, Baseball ect... once you see it in HD, SD looks like complete CRAP.

I have a 52" Sharp Aquos 92 Series LCD,

Heck. Making the change from 4:3 to 16:9 is amazing in its own right. You simply NEED TO SEE IT.