Hello all i just got a 37" 720p for $410.38 which has a 3yr warranty when i saw the deal i jump at it. I am going to get a PS3 for it so i can have blue ray and game on it i know that blue ray is played in 1080p. Ok here is my question Will the picture look better then a normal tv it being 720p and all?
720 and 1080 both look awesome...i've been told that the naked eye can only legitimately tell a difference between the two at a screen size of 40" or bigger. I'm not entirely sure how accurate that is but its just food for thought. Enjoy your new tv bud, you will love it!
From wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1080p 1080p: This creates a frame resolution of 1920×1080, or 2,073,600 pixels in total. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/720p 720p:1280x720, for a total of 921,600 pixels. Bluray will downscale to whatever resolution your tv has. I can tell a major difference in realism, coming from a 19" 1440x900 monitor to a 26" 1920x1200 monitor.
At that size you will not see a difference between 720 and 1080. I have a 46" 1080p tv and I sit about 10 feet away and I can't tell the difference between the two resolutions. Now if I sit close enough I can definitely see but it isn't worth the extra money on a smaller set.
At that size there is no practical difference in IQ at all on video content. If you plan to use the TV as a PC monitor it'll be different, but for video content, there is no difference. I have a 50" 9th gen. Pioneer Kuro and the difference between high quality 720p material and 1080p is small even on this set. On anything below 40", 1080p is a waste, unless of course you want to use it as a monitor. Most new sets these days are 1080p anyway though. Surely doesn't hurt.
Most movies are currently encoded using 720p. If you have a 1080p, it just stretches the 720p movie to 1080p. deltatux
Where have you gotten that information from? Makes no sense. Why would they telecine the movie only to 720p in the first place? Doing it the other way around is the only way it makes sense. Please post some sources.
Think he was probably referring to downloadable movie rips, but thats not overly true either since its an even split between 720 and 1080p rips, but most TV show rips are 720p though. The jump from SD to 720p is larger than 720-1080p, so you will still see an appreciable jump in quality, especially on a screen that size, plus SD stuff will be of more acceptable quality when blown up to 720p too, as well as most PS3 games being 720p anyway.
Most of my movies used to be 720p on an oldish 26" Sony Bravia but nowadays I'll stick to 1080p for my LG 42LH5000. The difference is truly remarkable.
i barely notice the difference between 720p and 1080p on my 32 inch lg tv when i use it for movies but for xbox360 and pc it is rather large difference.