Will Halo 3 benefit from 1080P HDMI tv?

Halo 3 runs at a fixed unchangeable resolution of 640P which is not even considerd HD resolution, and thus the xbox 360 upscales Halo 3. So the question is will there be any video/graphic improvments? if I have a 1080P tv with an HDMI cord, any graphic/video benefits?dark_raven_claw

o darn.....dark_raven_claw

Will Halo 3 look better on a 1080p tv than a 720p? Yes. This game is designed to be upscaled. Take a 1080p tv and use component cables at 720p. Next, use HDMI at 1080p. I experienced a significant difference. Also, the most important thing for a tv is color reproduction and contrast ratio not resolution. I've seen 720p/1080i plasmas that make 1080p DLP or even LCDs look bad.gamecubepad

Yeah, I have a 1080p tv that has HDMI and component (I get 1080p through component as well) and it makes any game look better than the other TV's I have played the same games on. I have another HDtv that does 1080i and it looks slick and all but with any game my other tv still looks a touch better. It may not be this mind blowing/HUGE difference but it's still a change none-the-less.

I think upscaling is being thrown around too much. Upscaling DVD players that started it all rated from hardly doing anything to amazing. THe amazing players were ones that had advance imaging chips to help reduce aliasing, artifacts, and better decoding all for a smoother more natural picture on a large detailed HD tv. Without that, sometimes it can be easy to tell you are just watching a low-res compressed mpeg video.

With games, there are no compression, they are already mostly high-res already. And with no anti-aliasing, nothing can be done during upscaling to reduce that but maybe make it clearer, razor sharp stair stepping edges, which would be the opposite of whay you want.

Example, lets go extreme with the Wii. I first played the Zelda game on composite at 480i, it was detailed enough, and the jaggies were not that bad. Switching to 480p with component on the Wii, suddenly the jaggies were so clear and sharp it was distracting and I was forced to lower sharpness enough to blur the jaggies back to the quality it was with composite.

So for a 640p jagged game like Halo, I would guess using a better quality cable like HDMI will only make the problem of it being low-res and jagged more visible, no imaging tricks are done or can be done like real video dvds, and the upscaling won't do much at all to reduce any problems. The best thing you can do with a game like halo 3 is reduce sharpness. That's what I did on a 65inch 1080p tv with HDMI.

Halo 3 looks ... well, not like what the Flagship series for Microsoft should look like.

The jaggies are very evident, and the textures aren't much better than Halo 2. The levels are larger in scale, but this game has not improved graphically THAT much from Halo 2.