Will a Xbox 360 be......

Carl_Bennetts · 12 Jan 2007 at 11:10

Slower on a new 46" LCD tele rather than my bog standard 21" tube tele?

Sorry if this has been discussed before! I know with pc's the higher the res the lower your FPS will be does this apply with the 360?

I don't want to buy a new funky 1080p LCD to find out the Xbox has a slow down on the higher res.

Any info would be great.

Cheers

Darkwave · 12 Jan 2007 at 11:20

Doesn't it just upscale and not do true 1080? If so then the performance should be identical.

Datamonkey · 12 Jan 2007 at 11:21

nope,

consoles are not effected so to speak.

The next gen consoles are designed to run 720p really, and 1080i though in a lot of instance the 1080i is just upscaled from the 720p.

You will be fine.

SiD the Turtle · 12 Jan 2007 at 11:29

As I understand it the 360 renders everything at 720p regardless, and then upscales/downscales according to your TV. So no performance penalty in real terms.

Carl_Bennetts · 12 Jan 2007 at 11:35

It's a good job you lot know what your talking about!

Thanks for the info

nintenjo · 12 Jan 2007 at 11:59

Thats just annoying as id prefer to lower the res but maintain 60fps rather than have it be clamped at 30 becuase of the 720p..

ic1male · 12 Jan 2007 at 12:25

Eh? 720p is 60 frames only. 720p30 is not a true HD standard, I don't think.

SiD the Turtle · 12 Jan 2007 at 12:33

ic1male said:
Eh? 720p is 60 frames only. 720p30 is not a true HD standard, I don't think.

Don't think so, HDTV modes don't specify frame rate, country specs do, such as PAL-I, NSTC-J etc.

Sclodion · 12 Jan 2007 at 13:49

SiD the Turtle said:
Don't think so, HDTV modes don't specify frame rate, country specs do, such as PAL-I, NSTC-J etc.

the rates are standardised.

At a high level

For 720p its 24 (film), 50 or 60

For 1080i its 50 or 60

For 1080p its 24 (film), 25 (european film although unlikely to be used as HD sets support 24), 30, 50, 60

60 for TV / DVD actually means 59.97. Silly yanks

There are loads of others but these are the conmsumer deliverable formats

Kreeeee · 12 Jan 2007 at 13:54

The 360 can output at 1080p natively and I believe 1 or 2 games can currently do it.

SiD the Turtle · 12 Jan 2007 at 14:03

Sclodion said:
the rates are standardised...

Yeah so there's lots, rather than saying 720p has to do 60fps

Sclodion · 12 Jan 2007 at 14:55

SiD the Turtle said:
Yeah so there's lots, rather than saying 720p has to do 60fps

The point was you said theres no such thing as 720p 30 which is correct, but a previous poster stated some games are locked to 30fps, which you misinterpreseted to be they display @ 720p 30. They are displayed at the higher refresh rates using frame doubling. The rest was just to fill in what modes could be done at the various resolutions.