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Originally Posted by STiInYourEye
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Originally Posted by RC45
So you buy the HD-DVD drive for your Xbox360 for $200, buy/rent a bunch of HD-DVD's that would in theory be 1080p movies, but only playable as 1080i on your big screen HDTV...
Not to mention the games will only be 1080i...  |
I agree that advertising 1080i as 1080p is misleading, but there HAS to be an HDMI cable available for the XB360...Right? Anyway I think your worries that you will be stuck viewing things "only" in 1080i is unjustified. 1080i looks amazing and in reality there is not an appreciable difference between 1080i and 1080p. Progressive sounds better in theory, but the tangible benefits are not huge. |
Actually all the research I did has shown that Microsoft announced
no HDMI cable for the XBox360 - because they say they don't think its needed.
As I understand it, an interlaced recorded source is reinterlaced to display on a progressive display. And as such I noticed that as an example, GT4 1080i when displayed on a native 1080i display seemed smoother and less prone to combing than when the 1080i source is displayed on a 1080p display.
So in short, if there exist no 1080p sources for XBox360 then I will always have combing when viewing the computer graphics at 1080p.
*shrug*
The main deal was to be able to enjoy Blu-Ray at 1080p which is flicker free and pristine
this we have accomplished... I understand if I had bought a 720p/1080i TV then it would make no difference as even 1080p source would be deinterlaced to display in an interlaced fashion on the 1080i display.
And to all the PGR3 FanBoys who claim it is awesome at 1080.. it only has 720 res graphics