You should be comparing 720p and 1080i on a HDTV, not 1080i vs 1080p.

GTR12

If my memory serves my correctly, 1080p is 2 Million pixels and 1080i is 1 Million. Big difference it seems, but barely recognizable to the human eye(like 30 and 120 FPS).

Zevante101

1080p is technically a higher resolution than 1080i.

Blade8Aus

Your question doesn't really make sense. A smaller screen is better in every circumstance for gaming anyway. I have a 32" TV and I hate the f***ing thing! With gaming, it's allways good to have a good clear view of everything on screen at the same time, bigger screens restrict that. And just by commonsense, on smaller screens the 1920 x 1080 pixels on screen are more compressed, meaning better quality whereas on a bigger screen there spread out more.

Defy_The_Fallen

Budget is low. If you were comparing 720p vs 1080p, I'd say go with the bigger tv as none of your games are 1080p anyways. However difference between a 32" 480p and 720p 24" is clearly evident and I 'd say go with the newer tv.rastan

While screen size is important to an extent, the difference between 480p and 720p is HUGE.

480p = 337,920 pixels on screen
720p = 921,600 pixel on screen

There's almost 3x the amount of detail (rendered pixels) in 720p vs 480p. The difference is night and day.

In short, the smaller screen at 720p will have much much better image quality than a 32inch screen running at 480p.

ndawgdrake

If your going for a smaller TV, go for 720p, anything equal or greater than 32 inches go for 1080p. Also do your research, i.e look at reviews, from several sources. Chris_53

Higher resolution, all other aspects of image quality being equal, trumps sheer size for me. In fact, I find it rather baffling that they'll make 30" 2560x1600 monitors, but anything bigger instantly downgrades to 1920x1080. Anyway, with an Xbox 360 as the source, the actual game resolution is only 1280x720, sometimes slightly less and then upscaled. You wouldn't get much benefit out of a 1920x1080 display unless it could display HD movies at that resolution.NamelessPlayer

Don't know why this popped my mind, but I wanted an answer to this. My friend has something like a 32" TV in his room with his 360 hooked up. It isn't HD however, it's SD, so probably 480p. Now, I'm going to be getting an HDTV in the near future, probably 24-26" and was wondering, which would look better?

(The TV will be 1080p by the way, but I'll probably put the 360 in 720p).

EDIT: Don't mind that last paranthese, my real question should be, which looks better: A 32" TV at 480p or 24" at 720p.

I'm getting a 1080p regardless as Wii U and all other next gen systems will display in that.

Nozizaki

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the xbox 360 has a better gpu, more vram, and can push more polygons

Snugenz

You're forgetting the 360 GPU also has that 10mb of edram at its disposal, and that the 360 GPU has access to the full ammount of ram in the 360 which the RSX doesnt.

So there's more trade off's that you failed to mention.