*Upconvert

Native > Upscaled.

This is very old news, and is not recommended even by Sony. Those that own Uncharted 2 will notice that on the back of the box it lists support for 720p, 1080i, and 1080p but 720p is highlighted at the recommended resolution.

It's not much point in running most games in more than 720p because that is the resolution and the game will have to be upscaled to 1080i/p.

And the reason why PS3 doesn't do this automatically like the 360 is twofold: 1. PS3 doesn't have as good a upscaler inbuilt in hardware. 2. For compatibility reasons it defaults to 720p because not every HD set supports FullHD (1080i/p).

But as others have said this isn't really news. I can't remember, but I think it's covered in the Ps3 manual too...

WOW this guy doesn't know a thing, native is always best and upscaling is never recommended unless the game does it automatically(which in some cases isn't even a positive result)

i didnt know this! thanks , but supposedly on some games 720 p will look better than 1080i

Wow, that's REALLY old news. You can't call yourself a ps3 gamer and not know this already. This guy must have seen all this talk about 720p and 1080p resolutions and thought he could get hits over this.

Anyway, like others have said, there's a BIG difference between having a 720p native resolution and having 1080p native. It's also a big difference between having a native 1080p and when you say that you can play a game in higher resolution (1080p) but it's only upscaled by the ps3 from 720p or even lower. Unfortunately, the ps3 does usually take the lower supported resolution over the upscaled one. I don't think it can be that hard to fix this; they just need a patch that will check a game's compatibility and see the HIGHEST resolution it can play against.

Nah its not news its old school junkie. apparently this person likes old shit that people already are quite aware of?

ive noticed that even if a game says its 1080p the quality still drops, cause my tv says it goes to 720p. And if it dont, if you look at the XMB while the game is running, the easiest way to tell is to look at friends avatars, there not as crisp as when not running a game...

native 1080p>>>>>>& gt;upscaled. do some research and you'd understand. upscaling is just stretching an image thats why native 1080p looks MUCH MUCH sharper than an image upscaled to 1080p

he still plays MW2?...mine sold before black ops came out

This just shows after all these years debating about most console games natively rendered in 720p (or less), a lot of gamers will want to "feel" better by seeing their HDTV showing "1080p" when running 720p native games.

I happened to be talking to a friend at FYE today about 1080p and after explaining to him, he was surprised that most console games are only 720p native even they can be upscaled to run at 1080p.

This running at "1080p" debate will not end because there will always be gamers who want to see their HDTV showing "1080p" when playing games.

Here's a quiz. Before X360 HDMI model came out, X360 games listed max resolution as 1080i. Once X360 HDMI model came out, how did every game release "magically" having 1080p? Do gamers even question that? I even talked to a sales at Gamestop long time ago that sweared that all X360 games are native 1080p because the game box says so. The point is people wants to see the "higher" resolution on the game box and HDTV because it feels better.

I remember doing this on socom confrontation, you would end up with black bars on 1080p.

1080i, 720p, don't matter to me, on console all games look low res as heck!!

1080p or better for me please, on a sexy pc!

new consoles needed bably

i put halo odst in the 360 yesterday for the f of it while rift was downloading a 1gb patch and wanted to puke!!

at first i thought it looked as bad as a ps2 game, granted it was not quite that bad but man, it was ugly as hell!

it is a neat little trick to force the ps3 to put the game in that resolution. but what happens if i have it only checked off at 1080p and play little big planet 2 that only supports up to 720p? then i have to go back and mess with the settings again just to get a hd resolution out of that game. better off just dealing with its native supported resolution.

who couldn't have though of this them selves. If you don't want to play in 720 then dont check 720, simple.

i laughed when he mentioned xbox360, but what he forgot is most games are native sub 720p on xbox lol:-d besides the point is ps3 can upscale unlike bots said, so please can they all stop winging now this little trick has been shown...

you stick with 720p

issue solved

and use a hdmi not a component, lol fail

What a dumbass. Up converted garbage is still garbage. Try up converting a DVD to 1080p and compare it to native Bluray images to see if there's a difference.

Huh......

HD whinging.

This is the reason why many ppl believe whats being outputed on the screen is native 1080p..... lol

The simple fact is most console games this gen CANNOT handle the native 1080p because it requires alot of juice

Comparing an xbox game that is upconveted to 1080p to a ps3 game you dont notice any difference in rez.

Forcing a game to display in 1080p is not going to look better than the 720p resolution. The developer makes sure the game runs 720p resolution no matter what, so when you change to 1080p, you're still looking at a 720p image upscaled to fit your screen.

Even though my TV supports 1080i i choose to stick with 720P because it works better with fast images. Also most games are 720P or below very view are native 1080P.

Native > Upscaled

Not that much benefit on further upscaling a game which is native 580p or something like that. It's not natively, any of the resolutions on the back of the box anyway. If it's something like Wipeout HD or RR7 then I make sure i'm playing it in the highest resolution possible but if it's something like COD which isn't natively HD you're not going to see much benefit anyway.

My Bravia plays Modern Warfare 2 and Black Ops in 1080p automatically. I just let the game pick the rez it wants because I really don't feel like messing with the settings every time I play a game to get 1080p. Most newer PS3 games play in 1080p, it just upscales itself.

If you have a 1080p tv, you either let your tv do the upscaling or make your console do it. My tv's upscaler is better than the ps3s so I just let my tv upscale.

This is a horrible video, this trick just makes games run and look way worse. Its not like a pc when ya turn it up to 1080P. Because the console version do not support 1080p or i, They can be ran at them, but they are not developed properly. Doing this trick makes games on ps3 look way way worse. This video is stupid. You are just up scaling a 720P image. It gives you no better resolution. This is the truth. .

Thought this was common knowledge