720p ps3 issue to be fixed says Sony!

[JTK]

Originally Posted by Hollywood__

The long list of Sony screw ups with this console continues.

^^ Good riddance to bad rubbish.

[BTBuck1]

Originally Posted by phranctoast

The burnout series kicks some ass!!

Motorstorm looks like Burnout in Baja trucks...It's a blast...I will def pick this up on launch day.

[Blackraven]

Originally Posted by Brian@BBY

Motorstorm looks like Burnout in Baja trucks...It's a blast...I will def pick this up on launch day.

Too bad though for the 1080i-only set owners as they'll find out that their signal would get sent again to blurry 480p.

I'd personally recommend that they stay away from the game until Sony releases a fix for the 720p issue.

[phranctoast]

I think the fix will appear in games instead of a software patch. The new games will support upscaling if the tv doesnt support the 720p resolution.

[JTK]

Originally Posted by Blackraven

Too bad though for the 1080i-only set owners as they'll find out that their signal would get sent again to blurry 480p.

I'd personally recommend that they stay away from the game until Sony releases a fix for the 720p issue.

Those games aren't coming out until March so I doubt that will even be an issue by then.

[dialog_gvf]

Originally Posted by Blackraven

The blame on this goes to Insomniac only releasing a game that has its resolution half-assed to just 720p.

This is an important point. Generally you want the game to have optimizations for several target resolutions. And if they were going to settle on 720p and scale, the game itself should be involved in the scaling process to insure the maximum quality.

Scaling is a compromise. A cheat. It's never as good as something targetting a specific resolution.

Now, keep in mind MANY (like 50%) of 1080p sets improperly de-interlace 1080i inputs. So, even if people got their 1080i output from a 1080p upscale, it might end up being 540p.

How would this scaling go?

720p -> 1080p -> 1080i output/input -> 540p -> 1080p?

Ugh.

Gary