Criterion Games’ first post on PlayStation.Blog is causing a stir among some gamers. In the Burnout Paradise announcement, designer Simon Phipps noted that a new update would include “1080i support for PlayStation 3 owners with ‘almost HD’ sets.”
That one line doesn’t sit well with the PlayStation community. “We really appreciate the 1080i support. However, calling 1080i TV’s ‘almost HD’ is a good way to piss off those same people you were doing a favor for,” one poster wrote. “So let’s keep the snide comments and insults aside please.”
According to David Katzmaier, Senior Editor at CNET, some of the gamers have a right to be upset.
“HD is clearly defined by the CEA (on fixed-pixel displays) as anything with a vertical resolution of 720 pixels or more. So people who own 1024x768 plasmas, for example, which qualify as HD by the CEA’s definition, have a right to be upset because their sets are truly HD,” Katzmaier told GameRush Entertainment.
“I believe the intent of the ‘1080i support for PlayStation 3 owners with almost HD sets’ quote is to differentiate between 1080p sets that can accept a 1080p signal and sets (of any resolution) that cannot.”
“‘Almost HD’ is just more pointless confusion; a display is by definition either HD or not,” he said.
