(01-12-2016, 10:46 AM)gstanford Wrote: I was addressing what BoFox wrote about 720p plasma's having a softer picture better suited for the Wii etc. LCD's have a sharpness slider that can sharpen/blur the pixels for that sort of effect.
The lowest sharpness level on most LCD's (like Samsung's) is actually the clearest 1:1 pixel-for-pixel output, and anything beyond 0 sharpness is actually exaggerated sharpness (an overshoot). In general, LCD TV's are made in this way (which is different from LCD monitors). When you hook up your PC to the 1080p LCD TV, notice severe "artifacts" with usual text letters (like the text in this post) with sharpness above 20-30? The "I" becomes a razor-thin I, and then next "I" becomes a really fat I, etc.. On these TV's, with sharpness turned to zero (for accurate output), the text does become rather blurry however, unlike with LCD monitors designed for the desktop or laptop.
You did make a good point after all. CRT tech like my GDM-FW900 has virtually zero pixel interpolation issues with scale-ability up to 2560x1600 and slightly beyond (with roughly 2700 horizontal phosphors for example), while offering a nice balance of both sharpness and softness with any type of resolution/display (movies, console games). It still suffered when razor sharpness and pixel clarity like with tiny text were desired, which is where LCD's (designed for the PC, that is, with accurate and not exaggerated sharpness) dominated.
Manufacturers just wanted to exaggerate the sharpness to try to make their displays "pop" out more than the other displays on the shelves in an electronics store. But it's really all fugly erratic baloney.. "hey, the hair and pimples on that Iron Man guy stand out more on this display, so I'm buying this one!"