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**Enjoymms** · 07-30-2007, 07:14 AM

I don't think that on smaller screen sizes you will really get the benefit of a 1080 source. I think looking at the downscaled 1080 -> 480 images on that site you'll see you can't really get a grasp of how much detail is in those pictures. It looks better yes, but it looks a lot better when you can see the image at its native resolution.

Well no doubt about that. I think for the price of admission, it's probably not worth getting HD content onto an SD or EDTV. You'd be better off spending that same money on making the move to HD. But there would definitely be a noticeable improvement in image quality over an SD feed.

I'm also pretty sure that watching a 1080p movie on a 720p set won't result in any better picture quality.

Any better picture quality than what? It's definitely going to look better than anything that has to be up-scaled to the 720p, but you mean compared to something at 720p? That's debatable. I think 1080p playing on a 720p screen could actually look slightly worse than a 720p source, seeing as it has to do some scaling. Whereas the best possible display is going to be 1:1. I'd imagine the difference is negligible though.

07-30-2007, 07:14 AM	#19
Enjoymms Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 610 Senior Member	I don't think that on smaller screen sizes you will really get the benefit of a 1080 source. I think looking at the downscaled 1080 -> 480 images on that site you'll see you can't really get a grasp of how much detail is in those pictures. It looks better yes, but it looks a lot better when you can see the image at its native resolution. Well no doubt about that. I think for the price of admission, it's probably not worth getting HD content onto an SD or EDTV. You'd be better off spending that same money on making the move to HD. But there would definitely be a noticeable improvement in image quality over an SD feed. I'm also pretty sure that watching a 1080p movie on a 720p set won't result in any better picture quality. Any better picture quality than what? It's definitely going to look better than anything that has to be up-scaled to the 720p, but you mean compared to something at 720p? That's debatable. I think 1080p playing on a 720p screen could actually look slightly worse than a 720p source, seeing as it has to do some scaling. Whereas the best possible display is going to be 1:1. I'd imagine the difference is negligible though.
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