Gaming on HDTV looks much better than laptop display|||?

So I have got Xps 15 with FHD screen and i usually play games at 720p.Lately I've got 40" hx800 3d bravia and i just noticed something new,the game looks much better at same 720p resolution on my hdtv.It was damn blurry and washed out on my laptop while looks like dream on the tv.I wonder tv's BE3's got to do something with the overall sharper image whatsoever...|can you people out here tell some insights onto why HDTV is better than laptop display AT the same reduced resolution(720p)...|
CHeers!!

 

Why does a $2000 stereo sound better than your laptop speakers? It should be obvious why it looks better on the TV. A TV is a dedicated display device.

 

HDTVs upscale non native video input into the displays native resolution, and thats probably 1920x1080 in your case unless its native screen resulution is lower.

My LG does the same thing, and thats why i can actually bare playing Wii (480p) on it but its still far from what i can get by using Dolphin.

 

Although the display looks better, for me personally, I have a challenge doing anything "hardcore" because I can't just move my arms and hands as freely as I can when playing on a desk. Perhaps it's just me, but it feels odd for me when playing on a couch or just in a chair.

 

i wanted to know why its different..how its different!

 

Gaming on an HDTV is definitely better than playing on the native screen of your laptop. Even on my native resolution of 1920x1200 games don't look as nice as when I play them on my 1280x720 native resolution of my Plasma.

 

The HDTV is likely a much better display. It probably cost much more than your laptop display, and a large portion of the cost of the laptop's display probably went into miniaturization, whereas the cost of the HDTV went into making the picture look good.

Notice how thick your laptop's display is, and compare that to the HDTV.

Your viewing distance also probably has a lot to do with it.

 

I find 1080p on laptop display is a lot crisper than a 30-50" HDTV personally.

What makes is seem better is the distance. Having something 10ft away from you makes a bit of difference, can't see all the flaws at that distance.

 

i just found text on laptops hell lot crisper..everything else be it videos..game..images..HDTV ftw...just got a new life into my xps15 gaming as i can game at 720p high@any game and image just looks sweet ...i couldn't bear 720p on my laptop ..|

 

I have a beautiful TV with a nice IPS panel, but my laptop's display still looks better for games. They both are probably equal in picture quality, but pixel density appears to win in this case.

 

play at a non-native resolution on both your laptop and tv and then ping me back..

 

It's a higher quality display. I'm surprised that's not self evident...

 

Did you actually put any thought into why an $1899 (price when the HX800 first came out) Plasma TV looks better than a basic laptop LED?

Hint: Dell didn't spend a fraction of that for your machines screen.

 

Personally, I still find that it's better on my T500's display (and I have a Samsung LED-backlit 46" HDTV). The main reason why it looks better is because you're sitting further back. If you sit far enough back from a TV, you really won't be able to tell the difference between 720p and 1080p.

 

it is indeed...but its not just about the quality..its more about the on-going processing with the image itself.(sharpening -hence reducing blurriness at non-native)..atleast that's what i just learnt here!

yep i guess this is why i don't find any difference in playing at 1080p or 720p on my HDTV..but its night an day difference when it come's to laptop's display..I just wanted to know what other than viewing distance is adding this advantage to an HDTV.|
Cheers!

 

i don't think you can downplay the viewing distance here. no matter what is being done to the picture, you ultimately perceive it with your eyes. and the optics in your eyes will do a very nice and clean anti-aliasing and smoothing of the picture for you, better than any dedicated DSP video chip or any software algorithm.

make sure you output to your HDTV's native resolution, and the picture will look even better as you're eliminating any post-processing done by the TV itself (and the input lag associated with it). many 720p HDTVs out there have a native resolution of 1366x768, so if you set your game resolution to that, the picture will look even better; plus, it will free up some space for the game engine to work on the higher details.

i play FIFA 12 and Battlefield 3 on my VAIO SA and output it to my 32" Vizio HDTV, and the picture quality is excellent (even though my HDTV is nothing to brag about).

 

ic...that was a decent explaination cheers! BTW i can't output 1080p gaming without lagging on my HDTV..my gt435m's bit weak for 900p gaming...let alone 1080p..though some games run at native 1080p(ops,cod mw2,nfs hp) ..

 

btw my viewing distance from 40" hdtv is around 5 feet...while with laptop is few inches..

 

I'd be willing to bet that a lot of the difference is in how the displays are calibrated as well. Not to mention that a Plasma TV has a "true" black, whereas most LCD's are blocking white light when they're "black", so you never really get as much contrast.

 

I´ve been using my HDTV as my main monitor in the last years. Just can´t get back to the laptop monitor, at home. Not counting that using it looks like gaming in a smartphone compared to the tv size.

 

good for you..I only cherish HDTV for gaming and movies..for everything else..my laptop's FHD B+RG Led is pretty sweet

 

I used to game on a 47" 1080P panel for years and use it as my primary PC display. At any distance I can still greatly tell the difference between 720P and 1080P in games, the same as I can on a laptop's display, even at 16 ft. away I can see a large noticeable difference between the two resolutions. Unless of course it's a movie, then I can't tell that much of a difference.

But to me personally, there isn't much of a difference aside from display quality, (contrast etc.) of sitting 2 ft. from a 20" LCD in 1080P, or 7 ft. from a 50" 1080P LCD, it's basically the same.

I think plasma displays do blend the pixels a bit though, which imo is a bad thing and one of the reasons I don't like plasma displays, but I guess for up scaling lower resolutions it would make them seem less jagged.

Big or small display, that's your choice, but if you do decide to use a large display and sit relatively close to it, just keep in mind that it's going to put strain on your eyes, take breaks often or you'll get some pretty bad headaches!