mrmez :
So in other words....
Your a Idiot
Brilliant, just brilliant. [:thegreatgrapeape:9]
mrmez :
Since when is 480i (i, above all formats) condidered hi def?
720 i thought was considered SD with 1080p being true HD
Heck no; 480i is standard-def. 480p is considered enhanced-def, and contrary to what a lot of companies (like Sony) try to tell you, yes, 720p is, in fact, high-definiton, just as 1080i and 1080p are. The last is no more "true" than the previous two; anything to the contrary is just an advertisement from someone who wants to SELL you 1080p equipment.
And it's not like most people can readily tell the difference anyway; very few seem to have recognized that outside of sports games, hardly any games put out for the Xbox 360 and PS3 can actually support 1080p rendering... Instead, if you set it to that mode, it renders at 720p and upscales it to 1080p, which doesn't improve visual quality at all; it just partially prevents it from being degraded by being displayed on a television of the wrong resolution.
mrmez :
Most crt tv's have ~480 lines, and slow refresh rates. While they do upscale much better than lcd's, 10x7 is probably the highest it will work well.
Technically, a CRT TV has 486 visible lines, sometimes more; NTSC signals actually include 525 lines, though typically not all of them are displayed. It's only digital signals that are cut down to a flat 480 lines. So yes, technically, excepting signal loss and interference, standard-def digital television is of lower image quality than analog.