Woppum Posted December 16, 2006 Report Share Posted December 16, 2006 Hi All, Ive just bought a new PC with a Dell HD screen, however can the machine process HD? The game I am playing'Dark Messiah' dosent seem to be HD but are any? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omi Posted December 16, 2006 Report Share Posted December 16, 2006 HD resolution is typically 720 pixels or 1076 pixels... Your snazzy new PC can run that game at 1900 x 1200, which will be the native resolution of the wide panel. (If you got the system I recall you did) - Kinda makes "HD" a moot point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woppum Posted December 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2006 So the PC processor is better than any TV processor, is that correct? If PC's run on a different system, why do they bother calling the monitor HD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizze Posted December 17, 2006 Report Share Posted December 17, 2006 The usually call a PC monitor HD when it has a native resolution of 1920x1080, and also they are also cashing in on everyone wanting 'HD' at the moment. HD was a label, the manufacturers and software houses decided they needed a label, so they cam up with HD. 1080 resolution has been around for years, Jap laserdisc working on teh Muse system was 1080i and still looks stunning today, that was out in the mid nineties. PC's have been doing higher than HD resolution for years, but resolution is nothing, you can play Quake at 1920x1080, still looks poor, you can play Gears Of War at 480 and it looks stunning. HD is getting worse, when it was a niche product with D-VHS etc. etc. it was all pretty stunning, now half the stuff is no better than a high bitrate dvd, it is getting too mainstream and they are chucking anything onto tv in HD whether it is good or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntW Posted December 18, 2006 Report Share Posted December 18, 2006 Gizze has it spot on If you running at 1920x1200 resolution (the native res of the dell 24" panel) then you are running at HD resolution (slightly above to be picky). However, it depends what signal you feed it. ie: Doom 2 will look poo at 1900, but HL2 will look good at 800x600 etc etc. Can't comment on Gears of War 'cos I don't have a 360, someone buy me one for Christmas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_B Posted December 19, 2006 Report Share Posted December 19, 2006 [ QUOTE ] HL2 will look good at 800x600 etc etc. [/ QUOTE ] All Source games have nice widescreen modes, great on my 1920 x 1200 Sony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntW Posted December 19, 2006 Report Share Posted December 19, 2006 get Dark Messiah Chris, you'll love it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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