Why don't Microsoft add more resolutions for LCD monitors?
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Caporegime
Some games do 1080p - that outside basketball NBA Court or something runs at 1080p.
The 360 will output a 1080p signal, aye...
The games are rendered at a specific resolution during development, which the 360 upscales (or downscales for SD TV's) to whatever resolution signal the console is outputting.
Most games are rendered at 720p (some less)... and games are starting to appear that are rendered at 1080p, Virtua Tennis for example (I think).
I wouldn't have thought it would be hard to add other resolutions, especially ones that are the same aspect ratio as existing ones. Other ratios (16:10 for example) wouldn't be too hard to support. As mentioned, they'd just need to add borders if a game wasn't developed to support that aspect ratio.
The games are rendered at a specific resolution during development, which the 360 upscales (or downscales for SD TV's) to whatever resolution signal the console is outputting.
Most games are rendered at 720p (some less)... and games are starting to appear that are rendered at 1080p, Virtua Tennis for example (I think).
I wouldn't have thought it would be hard to add other resolutions, especially ones that are the same aspect ratio as existing ones. Other ratios (16:10 for example) wouldn't be too hard to support. As mentioned, they'd just need to add borders if a game wasn't developed to support that aspect ratio.
andy said:
If you go into MS booths and notice an abundance of Samsung LCD TV's imo thats no coincidence, thats all I'm saying.
And to answer your first question, what would they have to lose if they helped to push LCD TV sales, through pushing certain resolutions used by the console? By helping these manufacturers, MS will create stronger links with them for deals or associations done the road.
SDTV's are very much old tech and all the TV manufacturers would love all the SDTV owners to switch and buy their new ranges of LCD HDTV's, one way of doing this would be through supplimentary (not the best word but I'm struggling to think of it atm) products.
From what I have read on these forums, many users have bought a next gen console only to find that the resolution of their monitor or TV is not supported natively, what do they do? They either live with it, or they buy a brand spanking new LCD HDTV.
Every 360 game would need a patch to support the new resolutions. Also the games all render at 720p anyway (apart from a very few undemanding games that can do 1080p), so you wouldn't really gain anything.Mephisto said:
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Athanor said:
he's not asking for that, i think he's asking for 1680x1050, which id like to see as well. Maybe in the next update, last one added lots of cool vga stuff so maybe this will finish it off.
Associate
dunno if its useful, but i noticed in the ati CCC theres an option which adds 720p and 1080i and such to the resolutions list for your screens. i'm sure theres something similar for nvidia cards, and besides theres a custom app or two on the net which should let you downscale the signal (recieved) by your monitor if its out of range, so you can get the most out of it even if your just on a 19" wide like me.
Soldato
GAMEfreak said:
You do realise we're talking about screen resolutions on the Xbox 360 here? We're stuck with the choice of resolutions Microsoft give us.
Or am I missing your point?
Caporegime
andy said:
it is, but most games are 720p, then upscaled if you run it at 1080p.
