What should I set my HDTV to?


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I have a 1080i/720p HDTV and was wondering if its better to set my PS3 to 1080i or 720p.

Every game i own runs in 720p so what's the smartest choice?

Iv heard that games look crap in 1080i and 1080p on the PS3 except for a couple coming out soon like GT5 and Killzone 2.

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Just got my Sharp Aquos and it automatically adjusts depending on what the game supports... the xbm interface is in 1080i res and most of the games are 720p....

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The way I see it, go with any progressive scan resolution over an interlaced one. I use 720p on my 22" monitor and it looks wicked, for both movies and games. I can also do 1080p on this monitor but it's pointless and slightly distorted because of the size.

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This question comes up everywhere.

Basically: You want to do the fewest number of conversions as possible, and have any conversions / scaling done by the highest quality component.

I just got my PS3 so I'm still learning about how it works, but in generaly I'd suggest you set it to 720p since that is most likely the resolution of your TV, and won't require scaling most of the time. What you really don't want is to have the PS3 scale something to 1080i and then have you TV scale it back to 720p.

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This question comes up everywhere.

Basically: You want to do the fewest number of conversions as possible, and have any conversions / scaling done by the highest quality component.

I just got my PS3 so I'm still learning about how it works, but in generaly I'd suggest you set it to 720p since that is most likely the resolution of your TV, and won't require scaling most of the time. What you really don't want is to have the PS3 scale something to 1080i and then have you TV scale it back to 720p.

I agree to a point, but the native resolution of many "720p" sets is actually slightly higher...1360 instead of 1280. Which is worse for image quality? Having to scale 720p up to that native res or scaling a 1080i image down?

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go for 720p, progressive scan > interlaced when it comes to fast paced games, otherwise you get de-interlacing artifacts. LCD screens are progressively scanned, so when it gets an interlaced feed, it'll deinterlace it, which don't always work out great.

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go for 720p, progressive scan > interlaced when it comes to fast paced games, otherwise you get de-interlacing artifacts. LCD screens are progressively scanned, so when it gets an interlaced feed, it'll deinterlace it.

Yeah but you have to realize all tv's deinterlace differently in terms of quality. some tv's may not deinterlace very well at all while others can so well that you can't tell the difference between a 1080i feed and 1080p.

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I agree to a point, but the native resolution of many "720p" sets is actually slightly higher...1360 instead of 1280. Which is worse for image quality? Having to scale 720p up to that native res or scaling a 1080i image down?

Depends on the kind of TV. For a plasma or LCD, it probably is something like that. But I believe 720p DLPs really are 1280x720. I could be mistaken, though.

Even still, scaling that tiny amount is probably not going to have much of an effect. Although it's unfortunate the PS3 can't do the scaling to that resolution like the 360 can (over VGA at least).

As for your question, that depends on the scaling methods being used. Here's a list of some of them:

http://www.hdtvprimer.com/720p/720p.html

Apparently example number 8 is popular, which means the 1080i scaling probably isn't very good. The other question is - when it scales from 1080i, does it scale it to 720p first? You'd hope not, but you never know with these guys.

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