According to the latest issue of the UK' s Nintendo: The Official Magazine, the Wii will output at the relatively impressive 720p, not the low-end, and still rumored, 480p.

The magazine says that " At the time of going to print, Wii games will output in 720i and 720p." Of course this is the same magazine that (incorrectly) said that the Wii' s base was its power brick.

If it is true, it could be the " revelation" that Nintendo was hinting at.

I have a call into Nintendo for possible explanation, but more likely no comment.

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Due to knowing much less about Wii' s technology than PS3 and 360, we can' t work out when it' s technically possible. It' s interesting that it says 720i though, and i' d guess if it were true it would be a scaling method and not a " true" 720p image.

Well first of all, there is no such thing as 720i so the author of the original information does not know what he is talking about. This leads me to the following conclusion: Wii = 480p for most games (some will undoubtedly be 480i only, just like the Gamecube Nintendo aka GCN).

I don' t doubt it, but then again I think this is going to be incorrect info.

I know it isn' t a broadcast standard but it' d be possible to have a 720 interlaced image wouldn' t it?

Why not just go with 576p?!

It would be good news, whether its fake or not!

because your TV would splode

ORIGINAL: locopuyo

because your TV would splode

Hahahahaha, ...where have you been lately?!

Nintendo has officially denied this story and has confirmed that 480i and 480p will be the resolutions the wii will support.

well there goes my hopes of playing wii games on 1080p

I was hoping for 2160p, was I setting my standards too high?

Nah.... Your standards were ok.It was Nintendo that could not come up to your expectations

I was hoping for 2160p, was I setting my standards too high?

Can a human eye even see the diffrance?

Due to knowing much less about Wii' s technology than PS3 and 360, we can' t work out when it' s technically possible. It' s interesting that it says 720i though, and i' d guess if it were true it would be a scaling method and not a " true" 720p image.

I dont know why they cant though, because there were 720p Xbox games, and the Wii is slightly more powerful than the xbox. Come on Miyamoto, work some magic(no pun intended dragon )

Can a human eye even see the diffrance?

You mean " difference" ? You bet it can.

A few xbox games ran at 720P (one being that snowboarding game?? i forgot)

ORIGINAL: f3hunter

A few xbox games ran at 720P (one being that snowboarding game?? i forgot)

Amped?

Actually, i wanted to know something...

...if i' m playing in 1080i, and HDTV' s de-interlace the image, ...what is happening to the resolution?

Lots of bad stuff if your TV has a native resolution BELOW 1080i or p. More than likely it scales each field individually, so you' ll have a half-frame with the resolution of 1920x540 and that gets scaled to 1280x720 (or some odd-fuck resolution like 1330x768 which doesn' t have the right to exist). It really messes up 1080i sources which most over-the-air television is. As for playing games in 1080i, there wouldn' t be a point to have the Xbox360 scale 720p to 1080i and then have your TV scale it down to 768p (which isn' t an official format, by the way). If you have a 1080i native set, it is still better to let your TV do the scaling vs the Xbox360. Unless, of course, the game itself natively renders in 1080i.

In short, HDTV is seriously fucked up. There should be only one format and one format only.... 1080p.

ORIGINAL: Joe Redifer

In short, HDTV is seriously fucked up. There should be only one format and one format only.... 1080p.

Eventually, that' s what will happen, I think. I think they said that SED tvs will only be 1080p, and probably laser tvs will be as well. I believe that the whole 720p thing was like a stop-gap to keep the price of HDTVs low until the component prices came down to where 1080p sets are reasonably priced. I think we' re reaching that point now (except for 1080p projectors, which are still over $5000. It is a lot better than a year ago when you couldn' t get one for under $10k, though).