[QUOTE="TheFlush"] Also can someone explain to me how resolution works in relation to framerate. If you play a pc game, the higher the resolution, the lower the framerate (which is logic because it has to push more pixels per second). How does this work on the ps3? Especially when the framerate of some games is a mess in 720p.....will it be disastrous in 1080p? Well another main difference with interlaced and progressive, at least what I've always considered and why I play mine at 720p (unless I have a 1080p source; but my HDTV is native 768 do i run my ps3 hdmi at 720p. PROGRESSIVE: 60 hz/frames per second INTERLACED: 30 hz/frames per second This is why 720p is clearly better for 90% of games out there on the market today. I tried to play 2k11 on 1080i the other day and it felt slow and laggy (because not only is it being downsampled and scaled, its still interlaced and basically just running at 768i on the HDTV I have. With basketball games (and shooters, and most games) having 60fps and your native resolution is going to run a hell of a lot better than running it at 30fps at a resolution twice the size of the screen, haha. I'm an FPS junky, and PS3 has some power. I do have the newer model though, the Slim with 120gb and new processor; so maybe it runs better? Or either I just haven't played the games you have that suck the power up in 720p (if you have a long, CHEAP, silver HDMI cord over 8 feet it is likely causing you some serious issues as well). While I'm not saying to buy monster cables for 80 bucks, I suggest you get a gold plated cord that is 3 feet -4 feet and works perfectly (its amazing the difference I got from switching from a 12 foot cheaparss HDMI that was 15 bucks to a gold plated 3 foot HDMI cord for my PS3.... it seems like it runs at 60fps consistently in all the games I own (NBA 2k11; God Of War 3; Red Dead Redemption seems to range from around 40-60; hard to notice though. But if you have a PS3 or 360 with an HDMI hookup and an HDTV that's not gigantic 60 inches, I would say NO MATTER WHAT: -Always run your games at 720p (1080p if u have it); the 60fps is great and the game just reacts quicker. Progressive is how video games are to be played. -Now when it comes to movies.......... most movies would be better off at 1080i because the frame rate is 30fps in Interlaced; normal film these days runs anywhere from 30fps, to 29.97fps, to 24fps. It only makes sense to run it at 1080i then. -I DO want to note that with Blu-Ray movies, if the disc supports higher HZ thus FPS I would go back to 720p; like these 3d movies that are coming out, pretty sure they require 120 HZ (which means you need a sexy monitor). Hope that helped. For those of you that don't think you can see a difference between 1080i and 720p on 25-40 inch 720p native displays... well I am just going to say what I tell my friend who thinks its the same: "you didn't grow up playing PC games like Counter-Strike at 60hz getting about 50 FPS pretty consistently back when Half Life was unheard of and Counter-Strike was in beta stages. I also am currently writing from a 25'' HDTV/PC Monitor that has HDMI, DVI, etc, and runs at 60hz, and at 1920 x 1200 resolution. When I hook up the PS3 to this screen and play 2k11 at 1080p (native for my monitor) it looks amazing, and also runs just as well as it did at 720p for all my games. Because PS3 is a console, most games utilize its exact hardware so well that games run perfectly or close to it. While with PC's there are 1,000's of combo's you could have between your video card, processor, memory, etc, which is why raising the resolution often causes some frame rate slowing; but honestly, if you have a game playing at 60fps on your computer at 1280 x 720, you should be able to higher the resolution a bit and maintain the same FPS; if not yo can always adjust the textures a bit to make up for the increased resolution by lowering SOME textyures.
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