Do you currently own a HDTV?

[digitalwanderer]

42" plasma Magnavox 1080p.

 

[scooby_dooby]

46" Hitachi F510
1080i

Also have a 25" rca SDTV sitting in my bedroom not seeing any use.

 

[slider]

Stop it. I'm getting TV envy.

I've been tempted to invest in a 720p set purely spurred on by my 360. When I manage to get a PS3 the next thing to save up for will be, you guessed it, a sooper-dooper tv.

 

[Carl B]

Ok unless I miscounted after 52 votes we're still at around 77% HDTV penetration.

 

[JasonLD]

Do you guys prefer big DLP or smaller LCD...if they have same resolution and same price range?

 

[hey69]

i had one just for gaming a 27" samsung lcd tv.. but sold it does that count

 

[ERP]

I don't really know what you're trying to measure here, but it should be noted that although I own multiple HDTV's I still play console games on a CRT SDTV.

 

[MrWibble]

I have a 50" plasma for the living room and a 26" LCD in the bedroom (courtesy of Microsoft...)

I took the liberty of ticking most of the boxes because at least my living room setup does a decent stab of anything up to 1080p (I've actually got an external scaler to sort out any device that's not at the native screen resolution - which is none of the options here, so I can't choose that anyway...)

I will seriously consider upgrading the plasma to a native 1080p model if anyone bothers to sell one in a sensible size - the only one I've seen is 65", which is lovely to look at, but would be too large for me.

In my view, the presence of HDTVs right now isn't a very useful statistic however - from what I understand, the adoption of such technologies is usually driven by content, and what's more, you need content from different sources to be truly convincing. So while you might get a small amount of adoption now from people who are into stuff like home media servers and other niche applications (idiots like me, in other words!), it'll only be when a number of different HD sources are on the market that you see a large increase. Over here, broadcast HD is only just being launched (or botched, if the news recently is anything to go by), but combined with gaming (X360 and PS3) and next-gen DVD (be it HD-DVD or BluRay) then there's enough stuff to sway even an average consumer into upgrading. So I think it'll be interesting to watch over, say, the next year, and see what the sales of HDTVs are doing. Even people that say they have no plans right now might have very different views in a few months time, when they're surrounded by HD devices in every high-street store.

 

[AzBat]

I checked SDTV, 720p and 1080i since I have a Sanyo 4:3 tube tv that's native 1080i, but displays 720p too.

re: my Sanyo HDTV

I finally upgraded to component cables, didn't think it would matter much for Xbox1 games, boy was I wrong. I had an S-video cable before that. It was enough of a difference that my wife even noticed!

I read Joystiq's interview with CliffyB where he said "I have what I call the "mom test." Take a game that's on 360 and on PS3, can your mom tell the difference in graphic quality? If she can't, is there that much of a difference?" So in a sense he doesn't think there will be much of a difference this gen comparing those 2 platforms and I would agree from an average Joe perspective.

However, I think once regular people see games on Xbox/PS2/GCN in SDTV and then see 360/PS3 games in HDTV, they'll definitely see the difference. They'll see value in it, but they may not perceive that value to be of the same calibur as when they went from VHS to DVD.

Anyway, I'm glad I got the HDTV first. I wanted it before I purchased the 360 that way I was seeing games as they were designed. However, until the 360 drops $100-$200 for the premium package I'll keep playing my Xbox1. It's purely for financial reasons. And with PS3 coming in at $500 and $600, I doubt I'll ever get one of those. I'm more apt to buy a Wii or a 2nd 360 instead.

Tommy McClain

 

[Shifty Geezer]

I don't really know what you're trying to measure here, but it should be noted that although I own multiple HDTV's I still play console games on a CRT SDTV.

As I understand it, it's just a count of the types of HDTVs out there. Some 88% of voters have HDTV of some sort or other, which shows it's definitely not representative of the masses! And out of those TVs, all of them are going to manage 720p, 44% can handle 1080i/p. So half of the HDTV owners here should see a resolution beenfit from PS3(?). XB360 doesn't render to 1080i does it? I recall the idea that everything was rendered in 720p and scaled, but that theory seems to have been blown out of the water. Can it render to 1080i buffer? Any games doing that yet?

 

[AlNom]

I have a 26" Acer LCD/TV for gaming in my room, 720p native.

 

[scooby_dooby]

So half of the HDTV owners here should see a resolution beenfit from PS3(?). XB360 doesn't render to 1080i does it?

Errr...what? They'll both end up upscaling a 720p image. 360 can render or upscale to 1080i, but just like PS3 it doesn't have enough power to render at 1080i/p and will be stuck upscaling from 720p for the vast majority of games.

 

[ERP]

As I understand it, it's just a count of the types of HDTVs out there. Some 88% of voters have HDTV of some sort or other, which shows it's definitely not representative of the masses! And out of those TVs, all of them are going to manage 720p, 44% can handle 1080i/p. So half of the HDTV owners here should see a resolution beenfit from PS3(?). XB360 doesn't render to 1080i does it? I recall the idea that everything was rendered in 720p and scaled, but that theory seems to have been blown out of the water. Can it render to 1080i buffer? Any games doing that yet?

So FWIW the HDTV I use in my living room will NOT take a 720P input signal. It's a CRT projection set and old by HDTV standards (4 or 5 years), but it wan't uncommon for older HD sets to only take 1080i as an input. Like most CRT rojection sets it won't actually resolve all the horizontal detail.

I do have a second HD display that will though.

MS "requires" at least 720p for a game, but 360 can render 1080i or larger just fine.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Errr...what? They'll both end up upscaling a 720p image. 360 can render or upscale to 1080i, but just like PS3 it doesn't have enough power to render at 1080i/p and will be stuck upscaling from 720p for the vast majority of games.

If you can render 720p @ 60Hz, you can render 1080 @ 30 Hz. It'll be down to devs to decide whether to got that route or not.

 

[scooby_dooby]

If you can render 720p @ 60Hz, you can render 1080 @ 30 Hz. It'll be down to devs to decide whether to got that route or not.

And the same goes for 360, so what's with the "half of the HDTV owners here should see a resolution beenfit from PS3" nonsense?

 

[Arwin]

Quick introduction to EDTV.

Could have looked that up myself, obviously. Anyway, thanks!

I'm still at SDTV, and will probably wait until I get a PS3. Then, I'll see what the best value is probably in January, as prices are lower after Christmas. If needs be, I'll get a cheap display first, that I can use in my setup upstairs (have an old car-seat and DF Pro wheel for racing games) and then maybe something nicer for downstairs later, depending (the reverse could happen too).

 

[cthellis42]

Who the hell are you people with 1080p sets? PM me your addresses!

 

[Sis]

I don't really know what you're trying to measure here, but it should be noted that although I own multiple HDTV's I still play console games on a CRT SDTV.

Interesting. I have both an SDTV and an HDTV. I play the 360 on the HDTV and the PS2 on the SDTV (the original Xbox is hooked up to the HDTV, but mostly because I'm lazy--I prefer previous gen consoles on an SDTV versus my "I'll Show You Every Flaw" HDTV).

ANYway, I think it'd be equally interesting to find out what resolution TVs people are gaming on. The past month has seen me spending the majority of my time on a SDTV, just because I have the PS2 hooked up to it, and I recently bought Guitar Hero. But the majority of my gaming is on an HDTV.

 

[trinibwoy]

I'm surprised at the number of people with HDTV's. Didn't know they were that widespread already.

 

[RancidLunchmeat]

Interesting. I have both an SDTV and an HDTV. I play the 360 on the HDTV and the PS2 on the SDTV (the original Xbox is hooked up to the HDTV, but mostly because I'm lazy--I prefer previous gen consoles on an SDTV versus my "I'll Show You Every Flaw" HDTV).

Same here. I've got my PC and Xbox connected to my HDTV and my two PS2's connected to two SDTVs.