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>I have both the PS3 and the Xbox 360, however I am unable to determine
>which
> one has better graphics. I notice that the 360 offers all games in 1080i
> and
> 1080p but the PS3 has some titles (Resistance for example) that operate at
> 720p or lower in some cases. Am I to assume that if Resistance came out
> for
> 360 it would be graphically more impressive than the PS3's offering.
> Anyone
> have an opinion??
>

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> I notice that the 360 offers all games in 1080i and
> 1080p

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> "SGT Cory M. Privitera" <cory.privitera@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Name one 360 game that can be played in 1080p. I have never seen a 360
> game where it specs say it can be played at this res. Now to say "all
> games" is way overboard.
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> ALL 360 games can be scaled up to 1080P! Of course you need a VGA
> connection as the 360 doesn't support HDMI.
>
>
> "Tom" <noway@nothere.com> wrote in message
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> If that game came out for the 360, it would work on ALL HDTV in HD!

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> The PS3 has a Design FLAW. It can't Scale UP at all. That means the
> Game has to support 720P, 1080i, or 1080P to work at that Resolution or
> your own HDTV has the scale it up on it's own.
>
> The problem is older CRT Based HDTV's, like my 4 year old Mitsubishi, will
> have nothing at all to do with 720P. It doesn't scale on it's own, it
> relies on the HD device you plug into it, to handle that job. So a game
> like Resistance that ONLY supports 720P, when you try to run it on your
> PS3 that's set to 1080i because that's the only HD mode it supports, the
> game will tell you that you need to set the PS3 to 720P to get the best
> Graphics Results and then drop you down to 480P. Well since you can't
> change the PS3 to 720P because then your HDTV would show no picture at
> all, you have a problem!
>
> I think Sony was counting on ALL games to come out in 1080P, in which case
> this wouldn't be a problem, but I think the PS3 just doesn't have the
> Power Sony thinks it does. If they make the games in 1080P because of
> limited Graphics Memory, then Graphic quality and frame rate would go
> down. The problem is, unlike the 360, it can't scale up a 720P game to
> 1080i or 1080P, it expects your HDTV to handle that. Well that screws me
> over and millions of others that have a HDTV like mine because 4 years
> ago, HDTV's were really, really expensive, and these lower cost HDTV's
> were more Reasonable in price so a lot were sold.
>
> Every other HD device works how it's suppose to, it's ONLY the PS3 that
> has this problem. I also don't expect Sony being able to fix this
> either. They wouldn't say they were working on the problem, and then a few
> days later retract that statement. This is only one of quite a few
> problems the PS3 has, but this is one of the biggest.
>
> I don't know about you, but I want to play games in HD, and when the game
> is dropped down to 480P, it's no longer HD but ED. Not to mention the
> fact the PS3 doesn't even come with any HD cables with it. Pretty sad of
> Sony, spend that much, and no HD cables and problems on millions of older
> HDTV's out there, including some of Sony's own HDTV's! For ALL Sony
> promised, what a big let down.
>
>
>
> "SGT Cory M. Privitera" <cory.privitera@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "JBDragon" <JBDragon@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> I beg to differ. We've got an Xbox 360 hooked up to a 42" Philips LCD
> flat-screen, and have been delighted with the 360 stuff that runs on it.
>
> Prenote on our HD:
> Doing cartoons about DVDs means you come in contact with lots of
> information about not just production but issues like the ongoing HD-DVD
> vs Blu-Ray I've avoided HD until this past summer when we moved all the
> television down to the basement and reclaimed three feet of a room by
> putting a flat-screen above the fireplace. Mind you this is the UK, which
> is following a bit behind the US in many ways, and as such there are still
> less than five HD broadcasts in the entire country (thanks to Sky's shared
> monopoly with the BBC) - and you know that two of the "HD" channels are
> not really HD except in terms of the 1080i support (the content is of
> course not HD at the source, just the signal). Lots of blokes here went
> silly last summer and went out to buy "HD Ready" TVs in obeyance to the
> hype surrounding the World Cup - the week before England's toss-in you
> would lose count of the number of guys lugging the things down the
> sidewalk - but they don't realize that they'll have to buy another real HD
> screen in just a few years.
>
> I mistakenly bought a 360 version of Lego Star Wars II, embarrassing
> myself in the process (but then when was the last time one had to remember
> which platform you were buying a program to run on? For me it was
> 1982..). I fired Lego Star Wars II for the 360 up and was given the
> 'incompatible'/check for upgrades screen. I then did the upgrade via the
> Xbox 360's port, restarted and ran the LSW game - only to find that it was
> situated in 4:3 on the left side of the wide screen. There wasn't any
> correction that followed despite re-setting-up the video options in both
> game and Xbox 360, 720 or 1080i. The only alternative was to take the
> non-360 program back and exchange for the 360 version.
>
> So I would guess that, unless an upgrade for a game really makes it
> support something the non-360 Xbox didn't before, it's not really
> effective. The Lego Star Wars II game was after all just released in
> September, and one would think that its non-360 revision would have
> anticipated the HD mode of the 360, but then we're looking at fairly new
> integration of PC-style technology, and of course other games might fare
> better in this regard.
>
> I was waffling about Xbox360 vs PS3 and had originally decided to size up
> both of them when both were out in the market being played on; also I had
> planned to purchase a pair of USB controllers for the PC that were like
> Xbox360 and the PS3, to make sure I liked the interface before sinking a
> ton of cash for a games console. My wife pre-empted me and got us the
> Xbox 360 and so there we are. I'm quite happy with it other than the fan
> noise.
>
> --
> Stephen Goodman
> *
> * Cartoons about DVDs and Stuff
> * http://www.earthlight.net/HiddenTrack
> * The Loop Of The Week since 1996!
> * http://www.earthlight.net/Studios
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>
>
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> I'm not sure what your talking about?!?!?! How about who cares about
> Lego Star Wars? ALL 360 games are suppose to be in 16x9 and at least
> 720P. I'm not quite understanding what your getting at, that a XBox Game
> didn't support HD correctly on your 360? Which would be because only some
> Xbox games supported HD and only some supported 16x9. Doesn't matter if
> your trying to play it on your 360, it's not a 360 game, it's a Xbox game.

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> It sucks about the worthless HD in the UK. Hopefully MS will be able to
> get Movies and maybe TV shows, and in HD over there in your country, so
> you can see what real HD is like. That would be some competition, and
> maybe kick things into gear over there, of they can try to block it, slow
> it down so they don't have to change their ways.

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> As for the Noise. Most of the Noise is from the 12X DVD drive. When it
> spins up it is pretty loud. I really don't notice it anymore. I could
> be used to these noises though. I've been a long time TIVO user, I have a
> pretty old Dual Drive TIVO Box with a lifetime subscription that I can
> still transfer over to another Box if I want. Few TIVO users can still do
> that. the HDD aren't the quietest things in the world anymore but it still
> works great. What's a little noise. I normally have the Volume up
> anyway.

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> "SP Goodman" <earthlight2k@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I must assume you're not in the UK. Would you believe that people here
>have only just recently started to get used to pressing the power button to
>turn their flat-screen sets on, as opposed to the '3' button? I'm not
>kidding.
>
> "JBDragon" <JBDragon@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Go back and read what I wrote. It's more than sufficient I think to
> figure it out.
>
> Gist: While even major games that were released in September on the Xbox
> might claim to be a proper upgrade enabling it to run on the 360, this is
> not necessarily the case.
>
>
> I'll put up with the lackluster HD in the UK because I know I'll have the
> real thing when I move back to the US. Doesn't mean I have to be quiet
> about it though.
>
>
> I've been covering the DVD biz since 2001 and don't restrict myself to the
> limited information they rely upon here. I'm American and know there's a
> world outside the UK. My favorite trade show is VideoForum, where people
> can see REAL HD for themselves, for free, whether they work for BBC or
> not. So I'm quite aware of how much better things are in the US - and
> someday I'll actually be able to return!
>
>
> A little noise can completely distract if one is sensitive to such things.
> When you compose and record as I do you learn to pay attention for any
> glitch in the sound. The DVD drive in the UK Xbox 360 (qualifying what I
> say for clarity) is as loud as the CD-ROM drives were when they first came
> out - and it really shouldn't be that loud given the technology available
> to one and all.
>
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> Again, I don't know what your talking about. 3 button?? Why, that's a 3
> button.

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> Yes, I'm in the US, and a Power button is a Power button, Always has
> been. Never heard of such a thing as turn on a TV pressing 3. Again why?

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> How about if your changing your channel to 3, does the TV turn off on you?
> I don't get it. Was there Never a Power button until Recently?

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> Then again, where most ALL places here in the US a light switch is Up to
> turn on and down to turn off, and yet at my grandmothers house all the
> switches are turned upside down, so now off is up, and on is down. Kind
> of confusing. To this day, I still don't know the reason for this.

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> "SP Goodman" <earthlight2k@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "JBDragon" <JBDragon@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> You seem agitated. By '3 button' I mean, 'the button on your remote with
> the number 3 on it.'
>
>
> I've never understood why this is the case either. Though if my new
> Philips is any measure, the turning-on of one's telly in the UK via
> pressing '3' (honest, no other button on the remote would function with a
> TV off) is diminishing. Perhaps some common sense is seeping in through
> the protectionistic technology they use here.
>
>
> After you get the TV on with the '3' button (again, this should be evident
> to be 'on the remote' because most flat-screen sets don't have a full
> numeric button set on them) pressing the 'power' button is thankfully
> accepted as standard 'turning off behaviour'.
>
>
> One has to rotate ones' axis a little to deal with wall switches over
> here. They're all like rocker switches, the kind you see on switches
> mounted on the cable to a light, for example. When the bottom section of
> the rocker is out from the switch, it's supposed to be 'off', and thus the
> top section of the rocker, when out from the switch, is supposed to be
> 'on'. I got an irritated response to my query about this once, though I
> suspect the guy felt logically cornered when he said "Isn't it enough that
> the light's ON?" No, alas. Things in the UK are often the way they are
> because, well, they've been that way. Silly isn't it?
>
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> Well, you got to be different. That makes the world such a great place,
> and a good Reason to visit to see for myself. It's all the little things
> you just don't know by looking at pictures. I would so love to travel all
> around the world.

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> "SP Goodman" <earthlight2k@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I must assume you're not in the UK. Would you believe that people here
>have only just recently started to get used to pressing the power button to
>turn their flat-screen sets on, as opposed to the '3' button? I'm not
>kidding.

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> "Dan White" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> Yes, I've had it up to nearly 'here' with the crap that goes on here. And
> some citizens defend such inanity with the dedication of the truly
> deluded. You need to find out about life outside the UK, me thinks. It
> exists!

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> "SP Goodman" <earthlight2k@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Well coming from a Septic that just about blows the irony meter off the
> scale really... How many of your fellow countrymen could even find Europe
> on a map, or even own a passport? It's a dead certainty that the average
> UK citizen knows a hell of a lot more about the rest of the world than the
> average American.
>
> Do you *seriously* think that everyone needs to press the "3" button to
> turn on a screen? Perhaps you saw someone do it once and thought everyone
> did. Never occurred to you that someone might have wanted to watch Channel
> 3, and that pressing the channel selector would take the TV out of
> standby?