Playstation Game Resolutions?

LeoN88

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I noticed today when i looked on the back of sega rally that it has a resolution of up to 720p thought the games are 1080p like blu ray dvds? or have i been mislead?
 
No they aren't all 1080p like blue-ray films. Mislead how?

Check the faq your sig is too big:).
 
Games run in different modes, check the back of the box and it should tell you.

Sega Rally is 720p

Also some games (such as RB6Vegas) support 1080i for example but actually look way better in 720p

Just experiment with a few games to find the best setting for yourself.
 
I've never been able to ascertain whether our PAL games run at 720p50 or 720p60. Are we getting shortchanged on 10fps over the NTSC versions?
 
interspaced said:
Lair and gt prolouge are examples of games that support 1080p. Not all will since many are ports from 360 and it is the playstation's first year.
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The odd thing with the PS3, that isn't a huge deal, is it's hardware scaler doesn't quite work properly...

On the PS3, it seems to lack the ability to hardware scale properly, for example if a game is rendered at 720p, it can't scale this to 1080p if your TV supports it, it will only output at 720p over HDMI, this is why on the back of games they usually will say it doesn't support 1080p.. that doesn't make it a worse game then the 360 version, it just can't scale the rendered output to 1080p for your TV...
The nuance is, developers can 'support' 1080p, like GT5 (The demo at least), by rendering at a resolution slightly higher then 720p to help the scaler work properly, and it can then upscale to 1080p, and the game can be classed as supporting 1080p.. however, that doesn't always mean it's rendered at that..

GT5 isn't true 1080p, in the same way Halo 3 isn't true 720p either..

What a game 'supports' and what it's rendered at internally can be two very different things..
 
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