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Tue, 24 Jun 2008
Outrage over PlayStation.Blog calling 1080i 'almost HD'

Criterion Games’ first post on PlayStation.Blog is causing a stir among some gamers. In the Burnout Paradise announcement, designer Simon Phipps noted that a new update would include “1080i support for PlayStation 3 owners with ‘almost HD’ sets.” That one line doesn’t sit well with the PlayStation community. “We really appreciate the 1080i support. However, calling 1080i TV’s ‘almost HD’ is a good way to piss off those same people you were doing a favor for,” one poster wrote. “So let’s keep the snide comments and insults aside please.” According to David Katzmaier, Senior Editor at CNET, some of the gamers have a right to be upset. “HD is clearly defined by the CEA (on fixed-pixel displays) as anything with a vertical resolution of 720 pixels or more. So people who own 1024x768 plasmas, for example, which qualify as HD by the CEA’s definition, have a right to be upset because their sets are truly HD,” Katzmaier told GameRush Entertainment. “I believe the intent of the ‘1080i support for PlayStation 3 owners with almost HD sets’ quote is to differentiate between 1080p sets that can accept a 1080p signal and sets (of any resolution) that cannot.” “‘Almost HD’ is just more pointless confusion; a display is by definition either HD or not,” he said. Read the full article
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