[PS3] Resolution question

Well it's like this:
I have a big LCD for my PS3 in wich all my games are played on 760p ( or sth like that ) ( I use HDMI ). Recently I got Assassin's creed wich says on the back it supports 1080i. The menu on my PS3 works on 1080i (I don't think my lcd supports 1080p) but the game shrinks at 760p when I enter.

Help ?!? :)

Your monitor have to support 1080p as well.

And if I understand the system correctly 720p stands for 720 pixels in heigth.

720p = 1280 x 720
1080p = 1920 x 1080

I might be completely incorrect on this one but I think 1080i have the same resolution as 1080p only that the "i" stands for interlaced (non progressive) and "p" stands for progressive.

Wikipedia says this:

"1080i is directly compatible with CRT-based HDTV sets. 1080i is compatible with newer 720p- and 1080p-based televisions but must be deinterlaced first in order to be displayed on those sets."

Don't know if that helped you any :p

(has absoloutely no clue about ps3's but will try anyway)

do you know if the menu for ps3 (assuming it has one) is displaying in 1080i? if so it might be that assasins creed does not support the interlaced scanning process.

either way i think your better of sticking to 720p rather than 1080i as it performs better when under pressure

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Originally Posted by Flawz

Your monitor have to support 1080p as well.

And if I understand the system correctly 720p stands for 720 pixels in heigth.

720p = 1280 x 720
1080p = 1920 x 1080

I might be completely incorrect on this one but I think 1080i have the same resolution as 1080p only that the "i" stands for interlaced (non progressive) and "p" stands for progressive.

Wikipedia says this:

"1080i is directly compatible with CRT-based HDTV sets. 1080i is compatible with newer 720p- and 1080p-based televisions but must be deinterlaced first in order to be displayed on those sets."

Don't know if that helped you any :p

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I meant TV - LCD ( a preety big one ) not monitor. I'm not sure what's the difference on 1080p and 1080i just that my TV doesn't support 1080p ( I think )

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Originally Posted by Ramuthra

(has absoloutely no clue about ps3's but will try anyway)

do you know if the menu for ps3 (assuming it has one) is displaying in 1080i? if so it might be that assasins creed does not support the interlaced scanning process.

either way i think your better of sticking to 720p rather than 1080i as it performs better when under pressure

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So it's like this:
-PS3 menu fully works on 1080i
-On the back on Assassin's Creed it says it only supports 760p and 1080i
(nothing regarding 1080p so far)
-When I enter a game (most of the games I have only support 760p, but some, or atleast Assassin's Creed supports 1080i also) it shrinks into 760p, if I'm not mistaking on my TV when the resolution changes it says 1080i/60 and 760p/60 (or sth), I'm not sure if that helps.

I'm almost surtain it should work, I checked my TV settings, there wasn't any setting regarding HDMI and resolutions tho so no help.

I'll contact PS3UK to see what I can do.

Thank you for your help aniways :)

im so glad i spent

Yah, that's nice :). Aniways I guess I'll play at 760p or what is, it's not like the graphics don't rock :). Thread can be closed.

nTi it's 720p and not 760p.

Do you want the long explanation or the short one? Well I'll tell you the short one.

There are two formats. Progressive Scan (p) and Interlace (i). The difference between them is p gives you a full constant image per hertz while i gives you only half the image per hertz. So on 1/60th of a second the screen will display a full image under p and only the odd lines under i. Then on the 2/60th of a second the screen will display the same full image as 1/60th of a second for p but for i it will display the even lines. Then for 3/60th you'll get the next frame and so on.

See how they are different? 1080i = only 520 lines at once while 720p = 720 lines at once.

Not only do you get more lines under p you also get a smoother picture and no flickering from the alternating frames.

So when a PS2 games supports 720p and 1080i most of the time it chooses the 720p as it's the superior one of the two. The 1080i support is just there for the first gen HDTVs that only supported 1080i.

As for 1080p. You are getting the full image every hertz instead of a half image like in 1080i. But with the PS3 most games do not support it as it's very GPU intensive and most games on a high end computer cannot run at that resolution with good settings.

Also for the comment about the x360 doing 1080p in everything. That isn't true. There are only a few games that actually supports 1080p natively and the rest are just 720p images upscaled to 1080p and not truly 1080p images.

My suggestion for you nTi is not to bother. 720p is much better for games as you wont notice any graphical improvements over it with 1080i and it will just cause some flickering. For movies on the other hand it should be 1080i as you do notice some improvements along with the flickering but the flickering isn't noticeable in most movies.

NoPeace - out

Yah, that helped thanks :). And yes the movies are on 1080i.

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Originally Posted by NoPeace

nTi it's 720p and not 760p.

Do you want the long explanation or the short one? Well I'll tell you the short one.

There are two formats. Progressive Scan (p) and Interlace (i). The difference between them is p gives you a full constant image per hertz while i gives you only half the image per hertz. So on 1/60th of a second the screen will display a full image under p and only the odd lines under i. Then on the 2/60th of a second the screen will display the same full image as 1/60th of a second for p but for i it will display the even lines. Then for 3/60th you'll get the next frame and so on.

See how they are different? 1080i = only 520 lines at once while 720p = 720 lines at once.

Not only do you get more lines under p you also get a smoother picture and no flickering from the alternating frames.

So when a PS2 games supports 720p and 1080i most of the time it chooses the 720p as it's the superior one of the two. The 1080i support is just there for the first gen HDTVs that only supported 1080i.

As for 1080p. You are getting the full image every hertz instead of a half image like in 1080i. But with the PS3 most games do not support it as it's very GPU intensive and most games on a high end computer cannot run at that resolution with good settings.

Also for the comment about the x360 doing 1080p in everything. That isn't true. There are only a few games that actually supports 1080p natively and the rest are just 720p images upscaled to 1080p and not truly 1080p images.

My suggestion for you nTi is not to bother. 720p is much better for games as you wont notice any graphical improvements over it with 1080i and it will just cause some flickering. For movies on the other hand it should be 1080i as you do notice some improvements along with the flickering but the flickering isn't noticeable in most movies.

NoPeace - out

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[QUOTE=Ramuthra;3297043]im so glad i spent