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Saturday, February 03, 2007

HDTV rulez!!


Yesterday I found out just what all the big fuss is about HDTV. Yeah I know the specs and the hype and the info. Known about it for years but I never really got hands on with HD. So I went out and bought a nice new 32" LCD HDTV with HDMI and 1080p. The change in the gfx on the PS3 when shown in HD is outstanding. There is such a shocking detail upgrade in picture quality that I was blown away. (I had seen old 1080i on HDTV's years ago and thought that they looked very sharp but nothing to write home about ya know?).... Movies played on my HDTV look very very clear , and when I put a normal DVD on it looks a bit shabby now compaired to the Blu-ray version.

This is all well and good and your thinging "yeah we know ,we know" but! the PS3 creates the 1080p gfx on the fly and are 10x more impressive than a pre-made movie. Going direct from HDMI the image is taken from the video frame buffer stright to the screen with no conversion what so ever. This leads to the best picture i'v ever seen on a TV. Well thats my rant out of the way lol.

Bottom line ..... Get an HDTV with HDMI if you have a PS3 !!! O yeah also dubbles as my PC monitor now :)