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1080i Vs 1080p
mariocaseman:
I thought mt TV (which max resolution is 1080i) was the highest I could have gotten... What the hell is 1080p? Any difference? I use old-school consoles on my hdtv so would the 1080p make them look even shittier than they look on my 1080i? Assuming that 1080p is better.
Arseen:
1080P is the best at the moment.
Do checkwhat is your TV's true resolution.
Is it HD Ready 720 (720x1280) or Full HD (1080x1920)
if it's the latter I'd supriced if it could not do 1080P.
And crap your image looks depends on your TV's video prosessing chip.
Zapper, Super scope and other light gun games you can't play anyway :'(
Oh and to answer your question
i means interlaced where the TV first draws every other line then the rest, where as p draws the lines in order.
I is left over from old TV times.
P has less flicker but difference can be miniscule.
scarmullet:
1080i isn't the highest your TV can go. When your TV interlaces, it shows half the vertical resolution in one frame, and the other half the next. In all reality, 1080i is really 540p, 480i is really 240p. The Hierarchy goes 480i, 480p, 1080i, 720p, 1080p.
Arseen:
Now it makes sense to me.
For some reason I've always thought that the TV draws when interlacing half the vertical resolution 0F THE SCREEN and image first then the other half.
Like that the beam was too slow to draw every line in order, so they had to draw the lines in the alternating order to be able to draw in time. :-[
AppleQueso:
--- Quote from: Arseen on January 23, 2012, 05:15:23 AM ---Now it makes sense to me.
For some reason I've always thought that the TV draws when interlacing half the vertical resolution 0F THE SCREEN and image first then the other half.
Like that the beam was too slow to draw every line in order, so they had to draw the lines in the alternating order to be able to draw in time. :-[
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That is (more or less) what's going on.
480i and 240p aren't the same thing at all. If they were, you wouldn't see people going gaga over 240p and RGB and whatnot when it comes to old consoles.