Not for the quality of picture, it's only important because the text is far too small to read on standard def for most new games. It's daft.
How important is High-Definition to you?
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I don't have an HD yet. I gotta say it can be hard reading stats and all playing Ps3 on an analog tv... And I can't read Shepard's answers in advance.
ewot?
ewot?
For current gen gaming it's pretty much essential.
With movies it's just a nifty little luxery. Though every spectacle movie needs to be on blu-ray by default for me.
With movies it's just a nifty little luxery. Though every spectacle movie needs to be on blu-ray by default for me.
Using that logic you should only ever eat out of garbage cans. And don't ever drive a car, because it'll make walking feel like you're a caveman.AnarchistFish said:
But seriously, for anyone that hasn't noticed the pattern from these few comments already: those that don't have HD don't seem to think it's important, those that do are never going back to SD. Me, I think HD is fantastic, the difference in quality is enormous.
This. I know it's the sort of thing that gets console gamers crying about PC elitists, but seriously, even a phone can have an 'HD' screen these days, it's just TVs that are playing catch-up. I've never been excited about HD as I've been gaming on a 1920x1200 resolution display for a full 4-5 years now, so the introduction of a 1920x1080 now screen doesn't exactly 'wow' me.Plinglebob said:
What is impressive is the ability of HD tvs to increase the resolution of standard definition footage, very clever stuff despite the occasional scene that the effect stands out in, and it works quite well on, say, output from the Wii. Not work buying one for, but impressive tech none-the-less.
No, because HD isn't necessary or particularly noticeable. Driving a car actually has a long term use.crotchdot said:
Again, it's still more noticeable. You could say that, but you'd actually be losing out long term if you didn't switch to colour.Casual Shinji said:
HD is one of those things you can live without indefinitely if you haven't seen it.
But once you start watching HD TV shows in particular, you very quickly start noticing how bad SD looks
But once you start watching HD TV shows in particular, you very quickly start noticing how bad SD looks
I like my games to look sharp. I can play low-res stuff, and never really minded, but when I started PC gaming I loved the clarity it provided. Hi Def isn't a necessity, but it's a definite improvement.
Also, my family bought a DVD upscaler thing, because my mum's partner is a bit of a technophile. This thing is unintentionally hilarious. Because it's trying to produce a HD image from an SD source it has to try and fill in the blanks itself, and it makes some amusing mistakes. You get people's facial features swimming around on their face, gun muzzles wobbling on the ends of guns and a variety of other things.
I had problems with MW2 on PC not so long ago, and I dropped the resolution down to the bare minimum with all the other details turned up to see what would happen. OH GOD. WHY.
I also decided to go for everything at minimum. it looked like the DS version. no joke.
Just thought that little horror would be fun to share.
Also, my family bought a DVD upscaler thing, because my mum's partner is a bit of a technophile. This thing is unintentionally hilarious. Because it's trying to produce a HD image from an SD source it has to try and fill in the blanks itself, and it makes some amusing mistakes. You get people's facial features swimming around on their face, gun muzzles wobbling on the ends of guns and a variety of other things.
I had problems with MW2 on PC not so long ago, and I dropped the resolution down to the bare minimum with all the other details turned up to see what would happen. OH GOD. WHY.
I also decided to go for everything at minimum. it looked like the DS version. no joke.
Just thought that little horror would be fun to share.
It wasn't important to me until i first experienced it, then I simply couldn't go back.w9496 said:
It's one of those things that you're not bothered about until the experience hits you.
Then again, most people don't realise that HD (or full HD) is 1920x1080, which is what most modern monitors are at these days. So if you run a PC with a 1080 monitor, that's HD. As usual, the PC crowd are far ahead of the mainstream. But it certainly has improved television viewing and stuff like that.
