Is it better to play in 720p or 1080i?


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I think it's best to use 720p with a TV that's 42" and under. Anything higher and I'd use 1080i or 1080p.

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I would output whatever the native resolution of the game is as a I trust my tv's upscaling more than the 360's. But you could always try both and see what looks best.

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Interlacing looks like garbage so its probally better using 720p on <40ins TV's. Anything higher and I think some TV's will remove the interlace from 1080i giving you a nice clean picture

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It depends on what kind of TV you have. If you have a 720p native TV ( DLP/LCD/Plasma) then its better to play in 720p. If you play in 1080i in a 720p native tv then most likely it will downconvert 1080i to 540p and then upconvert it to 720p.

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hmm it weird when i plug in all the cables the white red green blue and yellow i think i switch the switch to HDTV on the adapter i turn on tv and it says not supported even though its a HD TV so would could i do. when i switch to TV it plays at 480i.

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hmm it weird when i plug in all the cables the white red green blue and yellow i think i switch the switch to HDTV on the adapter i turn on tv and it says not supported even though its a HD TV so would could i do. when i switch to TV it plays at 480i.

You don't use yellow with HDTVs

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hmm it weird when i plug in all the cables the white red green blue and yellow i think i switch the switch to HDTV on the adapter i turn on tv and it says not supported even though its a HD TV so would could i do. when i switch to TV it plays at 480i.

Wait what?

For HD over component: Use the three connected Green, Red, and Blue for the video inputs. (component) and the two separate Red and White for the audio.

360_HD_Adapter.jpg

^ The top two are for audio. The next 3 are for video. Don't use the yellow. (it's for composite, not component--which is 480i)

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composite is <480i. More like 350 lines visible.

It is very much a debatable subject. The best thing to do is to try both on your set and see what looks better to you.

It makes sense to me that 1080i > 720p because 1080i runs at ~60 fields per second which translates to about 30 frames per second which will give you more pixels per second then 720p provides. Although I've seen it explained enough to be completely inverse of that but somewhere it always loses me.

Another factor to consider is that some games will lower the anti-aliasing at the higher 1080 resolution to keep with up the frame rate. I would rather have lower resolution with higher anti-aliasing myself and thus go with 720p.

Try both and see what is better for your setup. Some people are reporting that 720p looks better, others are reporting that 1080i looks better. I think that we can all agree that there is enough differences in people's setups that one particular format is not always going to be better then the other one.

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all the games i have say 720p, so im guessing i may as well put it to 720p for the better picture, so nothing is downconverting or upconverting..

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It depends entirely on your equipment.

If you have a 1080i or 1080p TV - go with that. If your TV's native resolution is 720p or something close to that - go with 720p.

The idea is to achieve as little scaling and conversion as possible since that's where information is lost. So if you set it to 1080i but your TV's native resolution is 720p - your TV will have to de-interlace the signal (bad) and downscale it (also bad). This is even worse because some games only render natively at 720p - which means the image will be upscaled by the Xbox and then downscaled by the TV which is very bad.

If your TV's native resolution is 1080i/p, the 360 will upconvert games that only render at 720p - and the scaler inside the 360 is extremely good, and almost certainly better than the one in your TV. In this case, there's no way to avoid some scaling on 720p-only games, it's just a matter of which device does it. But 9 times our of 10 the 360 will do a better job.

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Interlaced pictures usually don't look as good on progressive displays, especially during fast movement. If you have a CRT TV, then the 1080i should be better, but 720p for LCD/plasma. From what I can see, most progressive displays buffer an interlaced image so to make it appears progressive, which is usually 2 frames blended together.

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