> The speed and graphics quality is something that computers can't > reach..yet. > > -Gel
Even though people think they look great, the graphics quality of consoles is nowhere near the quality of computers. This is because of a.) console processor power; and b.) TV resolution. Modern consoles are only giving you about a 640x480 image. In addition, the textures and such are extremely optimized (i.e. low quality) to take advantage of the TV screen's forgiving nature. To give you an example of how forgiving the TV screen is, here is a jpg that looks absolutely gorgeous on a TV screen: http://itv.wpt.org/gardener/images/gardener1.jpg Notice that it's a relatively small image, but when shown on a TV screen it's full size and all the banding and jaggies are smoothed out. The key thing here is that it's compressed so much that it's only 13K as opposed to say, 100K or more that it would need to look as good on a PC monitor. Here's another one that's 5K: http://itv.wpt.org/gardener/images/gardener3.jpg If you look, you'll see tons of banding and blocking, but again it looks smooth as silk on a TV screen. That's why consoles can play so well with such low specs. They cut a lot of corners to do it. Fortunately, the quality appears good enough for people to still like them. If you were to play exactly the same game with the same textures and resolution on a PC it would look like crap. So with PC titles, they have to provide higher quality textures and higher resolutions to make it look good. It will be interesting though to see how well XBox games work when people hook them to HD displays. I know that Metal Gear 2 for XBox has some serious framerate issues at times. -Kevin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
