Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

MegaZoid. · Post by **MegaZoid.** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:36 am 0

I'd get one of these if i had the money http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/15/phil ... sor-aurea/

Saw one playing at house of fraser in maidstone the other day the picture quality was out of this world

Ratsoap · Post by **Ratsoap** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:46 am 0

Rod_S wrote: Yeah, if I was buying a TV mainly for films it'd be the 37" Panasonic Viera plasma instead of the Samsung - demoed it instore and thought it definitely had the edge for movies, very bloody nice indeed with Blu-Ray.

My brother has that TV, and it is really nice. Watched a couple of Blu-Rays and played Resistance and Motorstorm on it. It knocked my Dell FPw2407 into a cocked hat in terms of quality. The scaling of standard def stuff is better than anything I have seen too.

I just wish the bank weren't willing to give me so much credit.

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 11:39 am 0

SMG looks lush on my bro's 26" LCD over component, so anything bigger and better is gonna be... well bigger and better

Deckard · Post by **Deckard** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 12:59 pm 0

Goimg from component 40" Bravia SMG to my nephews 20 inch CRT made the game look...frankly...well...not good - how to undo all that polish and effort in one easy move

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 1:03 pm 0

For best effect SMG should be played on...

WhiteSpy · Post by **WhiteSpy** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 1:07 pm 0

My flatmate installed a Samsung 52" HDTV a few weeks back. I rushed out for component cables for my Wii, wired it in and set it to EDTV. Nice, sharp picture, but jaggies galore. The 360 looks fucking lush though.

gilesgoat · Post by **gilesgoat** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 4:03 pm 0

I did not find it .. someone else gave me this link .. honest ...

*WARNING* SILLY but NOT very safe for work and a bit LOUD
( turn volume down ).

http://kotaku.com/gaming/clips/the-wii- ... 329304.php

As they say in the page as well " .. you decide .. " ..

The Caffeine Kid · Post by **The Caffeine Kid** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 4:33 pm 0

Oh.............dear............

GeeZa · Post by **GeeZa** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 5:32 pm 0

Bloody nora I wish I hadn't started thinking about TVs. BestBuy (an electronics chain out here) are doing a 42" Panasonic (720p) for $899 and with a 10% voucher that brings it down to a shade over $800. Most of the feedback on the set is super-positive. I can feel COD4 and Unchartered demanding this set in the back of my mind. Will 42" be too big for gaming, especially for the Wii??

Bugger.

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 5:35 pm 0

On large sets the Wii doesn't look bad, but it will obviously accentuate things like aliasing and the like. Your PS3 however will love it

Although now I can't help but picture Drake as an Accountant

Cheers

Bubba

Jamesac · Post by **Jamesac** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 5:41 pm 0

gilesgoat wrote:I did not find it .. someone else gave me this link .. honest ...

*WARNING* SILLY but NOT very safe for work and a bit LOUD
( turn volume down ).

http://kotaku.com/gaming/clips/the-wii- ... 329304.php

As they say in the page as well " .. you decide .. " ..

Proving once again that there's a time to game and a time to pay attention to real-world considerations.

As for Best Buy's $800 screen, I'd highly recommend against spending money on anything less than 1080p. It's more expensive, of course, but that extra couple hundred is guaranteeing a several years more service as that format becomes the standard for HD in the future.

James

GeeZa · Post by **GeeZa** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 5:53 pm 0

Bubba wrote:On large sets the Wii doesn't look bad, but it will obviously accentuate things like aliasing and the like. Your PS3 however will love it Although now I can't help but picture Drake as an Accountant

True, that doesn't really bother me though, I've played some Wii stuff on larger sets and thought it looked fine really. I'll leave the Drake typo intact I think.

Jamesac wrote:As for Best Buy's $800 screen, I'd highly recommend against spending money on anything less than 1080p.

Good point, I'm really too much of a HDTV n00b to have any opinion on this either way. I was thinking that perhaps 720p would scale SD stuff a little better than 1080p but then I really don't know what I'm talking about. The closest 1080p TV is something like a Philips but then you're up to about $1300, quite a jump. I do have some HD channels but have no idea what they broadcast in. Hmmmm.

xav · Post by **xav** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 5:55 pm 0

Jamesac wrote:As for Best Buy's $800 screen, I'd highly recommend against spending money on anything less than 1080p. It's more expensive, of course, but that extra couple hundred is guaranteeing a several years more service as that format becomes the standard for HD in the future.

It depends on how far you are from the screen. I recently bought a 42" Panasonic plasma that does 1080p natively, but compared with a lot of people I sit fairly close to the TV. More than 8' from the screen and it's debatable whether or not you'll gain the benefit of 1080p on a 42" screen. More than 10' or so and you almost certainly won't be able to see the difference. In which case you may as well save some cash.

FWIW the Wii looks great on my screen - yes you can see clear jaggies sometimes, but nothing that really detracts from the gameplay. Interestingly the web browser has now become fairly readable at 100% zoom - on my old 32" CRT (which was correspondingly closer to where I sit), it was virtually unreadable unless I zoomed in a notch or two.

Jamesac · Post by **Jamesac** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 6:54 pm 0

Honestly, I still don't own an HD set yet and my research is still in the "half-assed" stage. I just fully believe that, when buying a device that I expect to last me over a decade of use, I should plan on being happy with its performance at the end of that decade. 1080p is the format I expect to be the standard at the end of that time, so buying something that doesn't fully support it makes no sense to me.

For what it's worth, I wouldn't even consider dumping my current set, which I've owned for well over 15 years and counting, if it wasn't for the advent of HD. Even then I've held off due to both money and, up to now, no real pressing need. Now I've got enough shiny fancy consoles screaming out for a better monitor that I'm finally thinking of the switch.

James

phattslagg · Post by **phattslagg** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 6:58 pm 0

xav wrote: I recently bought a 42" Panasonic plasma that does 1080p natively, but compared with a lot of people I sit fairly close to the TV. More than 8' from the screen and it's debatable whether or not you'll gain the benefit of 1080p on a 42" screen.

I recently bought a 32" Panasonic LCD, and at 8' the quality even of SD freeview is amazingly good on channels with decent compression. My Wii looks great over a cheapo Logic component cable from Maplin, and I don't get any problems with the TG16 titles, which I'd heard could be a problem over component.