Did no one ever make 720p TVs?

[Bassline_Addict]

As already mentioned several times in this thread, it probably wasn't true 720p. I too had a "720p" TV but no 720p image was ever sharp on it. Not something you'd usually notice with video games or TV/movies but definitely noticeable when you hook a PC up to it. The same was true for every "720p" TV that my closest family owned. 720p just wasn't a common resolution for panels, despite this being the resolution targeted by early HD content.

What's worse, they often did not even have any support for displaying content at the panel's native resolution. So even if you forced the PC to output 1366x768, it would just get cropped, or it still wouldn't be sharp because the TV scaled everything down to 720p before sending it to the panel. Some TVs handled this better than others.

Wow I did not know that thanks for the info

 

[pustal]

That's nice, but when it comes to PS3/360 we can't really care too much about resolution or framerate otherwise you'll end up avoiding most games.

MotorStorm 2 and Blur are two of my favorite games and even though they run at 30fps, they're tons of fun.

At that point in time, a stable 30 fps was the standard, yes.

But this thread was about OP wanting specifically a 720p display and I just don't think you gain anything relevant from it, particularly considering the quality or lack thereof of early LCD displays.

 

[Bassline_Addict]

At that point in time, a stable 30 fps was the standard, yes.

But this thread was about OP wanting specifically a 720p display and I just don't think you gain anything relevant from it, particularly considering the quality or lack thereof of early LCD displays.

Yes they were horrible