For all six of you out there with an HDTV that will do 1080i but not 720p, I’m not here to point and laugh… well, not that much anyway. It looks like Criterion Games took a little pity on you if you own the PS3 version of Burnout Paradise as they’ve found a way to add 1080i support to the game. But what about the 360 owners you might ask? We all know resolutions don’t really matter on the 360, it’ll take any old resolution and upscale or downscale it to whatever your television will display.
The new Burnout Paradise 1.3 patch (code named Cagney) will enable this new mode.
For those that don’t really know, pretty much the only folks this affects are the EARLY, early adopters that bought HDTVs before 720p content (and support) was very prominent. Folks with those TVs have traditionally been stuck with SDTV signals from the PS3 with a couple notable exceptions. It’s one of those “this is one of the risks being an early adopter” situation.
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6 responses so far ↓
1 Cube // Apr 1, 2008 at 5:56 pm
IF your TV suffers from this problem it is time to give it a leathal injection and get a new TV.
or start using it with out power surge protection in a lighting storm so it will die quick and painless.
It has to be 10 years old by now or test tube baby clone knock off from the china pirate bin.
put it out of its misery.
2 Mehar // Apr 1, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Wow, the PS3 seems really picky on what resolutions it would support and under what conditions. Atleast with the 360 HDCP compliancy only applies to movies and not games.
3 Kalroy // Apr 1, 2008 at 7:58 pm
I thought the PS3 would upscale to 1080i?
Kalroy
4 Sean "Rothbart" Workman // Apr 2, 2008 at 12:40 am
@Mehar: This has nothing to do with HDCP compliancy… HDCP _does_ only apply to movies. This has to do with the 360 have a scaler chip that’ll take any resolution and scale it to another. On the one hand there’s the ease of use of it outputting whatever you want, on the other hand, there’s the fact that devs can put out whatever sub-HD resolution they want, and the system will upscale it to what you’ve got set. Some don’t care, some feel cheated but that.
@Kalroy: The PS3 _will_ scale some content to any resolution… unfortunately, that consists of just about everything _but_ PS3 games… they need to be coded to output in all the resolutions they’re going to support. The PS3 can scale video files, PS1/PS2 games, DVDs, and Blu-ray movies to any resolution you need/want from the standard 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, or 1080p set of standards.
5 Mehar // Apr 2, 2008 at 11:35 am
Ahh alright that make’s sense, I can see why some developers wouldn’t want to add HD resolutions to PS3 games. That seems like one huge advantage that the 360 has over the PS3, some resolution is better then none.
6 Aaron // Aug 11, 2008 at 10:17 pm
You know what really sucks… Sony made some of the TVs that support 1080i but not 720p, and they’re still not correcting the problem. WTF Sony?
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