720p in monitor 1080p Vs Console

[Rodrigo_gb]

Hi folks.

This is a big doubt...But almost no one could help me.
So, I have a 1080p monitor [for PC games]. If I put in 720p to gain FPS, the quality will get worse and blurry. Ok. This is horrible at first...I know.

But, almost everygame for PS3 or X360 are in 720p. So the TV does "upscaling" to 1080p.

The point is: When I turn to 720p 'blurry' in my monitor, it gets the same quality as the Console at 720p (on a TV 1080p)? So, even blurry, we can say that this is the overall quality of consoles? Play blurry is not that bad?

(all this because I was forced to worsen my resolution, and it made a big difference. If the Consoles are the same, OK for me. But I dont have a Console to compare).

 

[AUnlikelyPotatoe]

Probably, it's a little different, but it's still a little blurry. But whatever you do, don't get a console, I spent $400 on PC parts and got a PC that runs a lot better that any console. And why were you "forced" to lower resolution?

 

[Rodrigo_gb]

Probably, it's a little different, but it's still a little blurry. But whatever you do, don't get a console, I spent $400 on PC parts and got a PC that runs a lot better that any console. And why were you "forced" to lower resolution?

Because my PC doesnt have power to run games like The Witcher 3, for example. I lose many FPS in 1080p. :/

 

[Suzuki@1473780084@1473780163]

Wrong.

They both output 1080p, the TV isn't upscaling anything, unless the TV you're using is a 4k TV.

"When I turn to 720p 'blurry' in my monitor, it gets the same quality as the Console at 720p (on a TV 1080p)? So, even blurry, we can say that this is the overall quality of consoles? Play blurry is not that bad?"

Would you mind rephrasing that? I'm having trouble understanding what you mean.

Are you saying that the Xbox 360/PS3 games look a lot worse than your PC games at 720p?

 

[Rodrigo_gb]

Monitor Master,
It is actually the opposite, "my games at 720p look worse than x360/PS3?"

When we play at TV 1080p, and de console game is 720p. The quality is the same if I play 720p in my monitor 1080p?
What I mean is: if I put 720p and turn "blurry", this is the same console quality?

See, reduce and adapt to the blurred resolution is a problem for everyone. I just want to understand if this "blurred" is actually the resolution of the console games at 720p. What I want is to have the feeling, "Well, I reduced to 720p, but on the console is the same way ... So, Ok, this blurred is not the end of the world after all, because the consoles are so."

So let's compare a 720p console game on a TV 1080p and 720p on the PC monitor 1080p. The quality is the same, the resolution, definition is the same?

thanks!

 

[Suzuki@1473780084@1473780163]

It's not necessarily the resolution that's causing this. It's the fact that you've lost 1:1 pixel mapping as soon as you move away from your native resolution, this doesn't only mean that lowering the resolution is the only cause for this "blur" either. Another cause is overscanning, regardless if it's only a 5% overscan, you will blur the entire image, and you will lose small details.

Your TV actually isn't upscaling anything sent from either the Xbox 360 or the PS3. They both have internal scalers, and output at 1080p. Your TV doesn't see 720p, it sees a 1080p signal, and displays it natively. This may or may not be better than a PC game, but there's more to it. The age of the hardware, color rendition, and so on, all those things matter.

Are you sure that you're outputting 1080p from the console(s) you're using? You can find this setting somewhere in the options/systems menu for either console. My guess would be that a modern PC would beat both of the consoles picture quality, so should be less blurry. With that said, I'm playing Xbox 360 games among other systems including PC, on my projector 1080p screen, and I don't notice any immediate blur, other than the much lower texture and color quality in games, because the older consoles just can't keep up with modern hardware, because new things are constantly coming out. And, the hardware in the Xbox 360/PS3 are basically 11 years old.