The mere idea that we are eventually moving to 4320p resolution.

I kind of went for the same sort of approach though.

Always, somewhere, someone is fighting for you. As long as you remember them, you are not alone.

I wonder if someday someone is going to look at Final Fantasy XIII and go all "Man, these are some retro graphics."

If people learned from their mistakes, there wouldn't be this thing called bad habits.

Inevitably. We thought FFVIII's ballroom scene running in realtime on PS 2 was pretty impressive, remember?

And I'm gonna dig someone's eyeballs out with a rusty spoon if we don't get that PS 3 update of FFVII we were so obliquely promised. Hell, I'd be happy with a DS port, just as long as somebody finally has an excuse to go back over that script and fix the hell out of it.

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For computer monitors, 1080p is already too damn small. I run at 1920x1200 (Macbook Pro, either on its native screen or external monitor) and that's a bit better, but any screen bigger than the one I have would need greater resolution.

I do share the frustration at graphics hardware advances mostly giving the same quality at ever-higher resolution rather than actual better lighting etc., though.

A brighter future for a darker age.

I never really notice a quality difference on fullscreen with 720p or higher.

If people learned from their mistakes, there wouldn't be this thing called bad habits.

@Spork: Hey, if we can get cameras to output videos with resolutions that high, we can get better images of people who commit crimes. Security would be improved greatly.

Plus, imagine if we took that tech and put it on military drones and whatnot.

edited 31st May '11 9:24:38 PM by RocketDude

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I'm sure there's some difference that I might be able to see if I saw the things side by side. As it is I can't think of a difference I have consciously noted or particularly care about...Same with blue ray...I'd only want one for when DV Ds get phased out of existence...

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Ah, thank you. It's good to not be the only one in here who thinks that anything above 1080p isn't completely pointless.

edited 1st Jun '11 12:35:14 AM by Ukonkivi

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Then turn on antialiasing. There's not really any reason to makes file size jump orders of magnitude for the laughably small visual effect you'd get from this.

Security cameras are hindered far more by suspects not looking at the camera than resolution issues. The increase in file size would do more harm than good — you would have far better gain for the added storage space by just placing more low-res cameras.

edited 1st Jun '11 12:35:50 PM by Pykrete

I once had a class that relied on an SD projector for everything. I barely noticed the pixels, even though I was in the front row (and if you look for them, they're not hard to spot). Then one day, we had a slide projector set up for 35mm projection. I was floored by how much the quality improved.

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