GT4 IGN Review up!
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Does it really matter if it is true 1080i, or some "hack", as olong as it gets a job done, in this case providing a visibly better iq than standard resolution.
To me it really doesn't matter. 1st because I don't have a display that could take advantage of the fake 1080i mode, 2nd because that feature is not in the PAL version (or so I heard).
To me it really doesn't matter. 1st because I don't have a display that could take advantage of the fake 1080i mode, 2nd because that feature is not in the PAL version (or so I heard).
PC-Engine said:
Yeah, ever heard of screenshots and reviews?
Pretty much everyone that has the game and played it in HD, said it looks better and more smooth. And the "way old" screenshot that was posted clearly had more resolution, i even think that Faf said it was "as he thought" a Double Vertical Res trick.
And if you want to discuss Upscaling, go to avsforum and spend a lifetime there, it's an artform!
-tkf- said:
Um if your tv supports 1080i and upscales everything hooked up to it through component then everything would look better including Xbox, GCN, or a regular DVD player LMAO. Oh and uh maybe it is you who need to visit the AVS Forums since you need to go to school on the subject of what a real 1080i HD signal is.
PC-Engine said:Oh and uh maybe it is you who need to visit the AVS Forums since you need to go to school on the subject of what a real 1080i HD signal is.
Man.. how do you answer such flamebait? Ignore it of course and hope that a mod will tell you to shut up? (HAHA UNLIKELY!)
But since you haven't understood the difference between the GT4 "upscale" and the way a HD set upscales i guess there really isn't any reason to try and help you... I wouldn't want to end up with another OMG SUPERBIT IS A HACKED FORMAT thread..
PC-Engine said:
GT4 1080i probably uses 540-line field buffers, so you should be getting more resolution than 480p even per field. And when the two 540-line fields are interlaced, the effective vertical resolution is 1080i. Upscan conversion of a 480p signal won't get you this.
The horizontal resolution probably isn't much higher than the horizontal for 480p, though.
PC-Engine said:
I thought the point you were trying to make was ROFLMAO
GT4 IS CRAP I MEAN 1080I IS FAKE AND HEY I MEAN LOLLLL HOW CRAP IS THAT MWAHAHA But maybe that's just a wrong impression.
Is there going to be some "Special Edition" GT4 for Europe?
I read in CVG that "Yamuchi-san has discussed the future of the series in a book entitled Driving the Game, which appears in the limited edition European version of Gran Turismo 4"
Does the US version have this book?
I read in CVG that "Yamuchi-san has discussed the future of the series in a book entitled Driving the Game, which appears in the limited edition European version of Gran Turismo 4"
Does the US version have this book?
PC-Engine said:
480p signals have effective resolution of 480 lines. When you upscan up to 1080i, you're not going to get any more information from interpolating between those 480 lines, so the information in that 1080i image is still just 480 lines. GT4's 1080i image, OTOH, contains 540-line fields that aren't just interpolations from a 480p source, but staggered renders of a scene, and so what you do get is a scene rendered with 1080 distinct scan lines, so the effective resolution is much higher, not slightly higher.
Of course, there are drawbacks to interlacing which we all are aware of...
You can say that again.phat said:
Makes is hard to walk.
PC-Engine said:
Do u?
Wow Yesterday I got to see GT4 on a 42" plasma.
It ran on the relgular resolution, not the "fake" 1080i.
The image quality was great! Much better than GT3 and GT Concept, don't know about Prologue as I haven't sen it in person. Didn't really see much jaggies or flickering (just some in far away thin poles and such, but such that can be seen in any game, in any console because of the fact that these are relatively low res), in fact I think in those respects the image was surprisingly clean. The tracks were the canyon track and New York track. Maybe there'll be more flickering in some more high contrast tracks, but at the moment I really don't see those being a problem to even more critical eyes.
Overall the game looked jawdropping. I didn't think a PS2 game would amaze me any more, but imo GT4 really looks incredible.
Didn't play the game, just watched.
Yesterday I got to see GT4 on a 42" plasma.It ran on the relgular resolution, not the "fake" 1080i.
The image quality was great! Much better than GT3 and GT Concept, don't know about Prologue as I haven't sen it in person. Didn't really see much jaggies or flickering (just some in far away thin poles and such, but such that can be seen in any game, in any console because of the fact that these are relatively low res), in fact I think in those respects the image was surprisingly clean. The tracks were the canyon track and New York track. Maybe there'll be more flickering in some more high contrast tracks, but at the moment I really don't see those being a problem to even more critical eyes.
Overall the game looked jawdropping. I didn't think a PS2 game would amaze me any more, but imo GT4 really looks incredible.
Didn't play the game, just watched.
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