Quote Originally Posted by Laraul View Post
Resolution is subjective. I mean FFXIV's opening movie (the pre rendered one) looks the same at 1280x720 as it does at 2560x1440. You can not tell what resolution the game is running as that video plays. And even during game play 2560x1440 doesn't look much better than 1280x720 (except on the IPS display 1280x720 looks a bit blocky for some reason). On the TV 1280x720 doesn't look blocky at all. The TV also is better at creating true black versus the monitor. The TV (which is an old Toshiba DLP) produces better color than the monitor (an Apple Cinema Display). It's all about color not resolution that produces the best picture.
Subjective..... Oh boy. Displaying a pre-rendered video at a higher resolution than it was made at will of course look worse due to scaling. And I wasn't even talking about colors and such, and if I was I would mention that a properly calibrated IPS panel is going to output color better than just about any TV. However, the point of resolution isn't so much "looking good", it's about screen real estate. I can display the same amount of readable chat lines/whatever on a higher resolution display, yet take up less space. In EVE this is far more useful than some games. And in many games it gives you more of a view and you can also see more detail in the models dependent on the resolution of the textures used.

Also, running a resolution lower than an LCD's native res will look blocky 99% of the time. Unless you run a 1 to 1 pixel ratio which would leave black all around the image.