Make decisions for HP (Gaming)

by uberfoop , Seattle-ish, Sunday, November 10, 2013, 22:28 (4030 days ago) @ Ragashingo
edited by uberfoop, Sunday, November 10, 2013, 22:33

My silly TV only does 720p so I have no real interest in who can output what.

Image rendered natively at 240p:

240p image downsampled from a much higher resolution:

Not only does the lower image look cleaner when still, you'll get far less pixel crawling from motion. Having a 720p TV will put some limits on the raw sharpness of your image, but you'll still get huge benefits from higher-resolution native rendering. Downsampling is glorious, and part of why I was totally okay with Reach when I only had an SD CRT on hand. In some ways I appreciated its visuals on that TV more than on my HDTV. It wasn't as sharp, but pixel-for-pixel the 360's output seemed much cleaner in SD.

tl;dr 1080p games will look better on your 720p TV than 720p games, all other things being equal.