i really enjoyed kingdom hearts 1's ending.

It makes absolutely no sense to buy a 1080p 32" set that you watch from 10' away. In fact, at that distance, even full 720p is not completely evident to the human eye. People that say 1080p is the only way to go without any other point of reference have no idea what they are talking about. Resolution is entirely dependent on how far you sit from a set size TV and the limits of the human eye to discern that resolution. As for PS3 gaming at 1080p, all you are really seeing is upscaled 720p games as there's something like 2 PS3 games that are natively 1080p available. alphamale1989 states the most truth in his first 2 sentences, but then makes a mistake in the the last one by not saying "But ideally you'll save up and get a good 1080p if you are going to sit close enough to the set such that your eyes can discern the difference. See the chart: http://s3.carltonbale.com/resolution_chart.html" Lastly, if most of what you watch is 720p, you will probably have a better picture watching such material on a 720p set. Don't believe me? Look how good a 480p Wii game looks on a 720p TV. It's an issue of having to scale the picture up to whatever the native resolution is on today's fixed pixel flat panels. HDTV CRT's had some downfalls (namely size and heft), but they could natively accept 480i/p, 720i/p, 1080i/p, etc such that they could adjust to natively display these resolutions with no scaling or artifacting.rastan

I'm currently in the same situation as OP, trying to figure out whether or not to go with a 1080p or 720p screen for my consoles (although I'm looking at getting a 22-24" screen that I'll be sitting 2 feet away from, not a 32" screen from 10 feet away).

The conclusion I've come to after looking around online is that it's best to go with a 720p screen. Very few games on either the PS3 or X360 are in native 1080p and the ones that are tend to have simple graphics (hence why the console can run them in 1080p native). As a result the image quality actually looks worse on a 1080p TV than it does on a 720p TV (as any PC gamer who's tried to play a game at a lower resolution than their monitor's native resolution can tell you). You get the same issue with television broadcasts, most are in 720p/1080i, not 1080p.

1080p only seems to be worth it if you have an extensive blu-ray collection or want to play PC games on it. The infrastructure in place for TV broadcasts doesn't allow for enough bandwidth to transmit uncompressed 1080p signals and current gen consoles are too weak to play games at resolutions higher than 720p (in fact, many games don't even run at 720p but rather at resolutions slightly lower like 540p).

Also, if you sitting 10 feet or more away from your television you're not going to see a lick of difference between 720p and 1080p. Hell, it's questionable whether you would even be able to see a difference between SD and HD at all from that distance. And on a screen that's 32" you wouldn't see a difference between 720p and 1080p unless you're sitting very close anyway.

gameguy6700

okay so i am going to be getting a new HD tv for my ps3 in the next few months whether it be 3 months or 10 months. now i was considering buying a 32 inch model but don't know whether i should get one which is 720p or 1080p. i watch tv and play games from about 10-11 feet away from my tv. now my question is would i be able to see an improvement or difference between the 1080p and 720p at that screen size and viewing distance?

jill and leone

are ff xiv and versus 13 going to cost a monthly fee to play online?

mgs4

Out of the following games:

GTA IV

Valkyria Chronicles

Dead Space

Bioshock

Which one should i purchase?

2 weeks and loving every second of it.

yeah as i recall the cd add on for the snes was supposed to originally be called the "nintendo playstation."

Sony created the playstation one, but it was nintendo who came up with the name "playstation."