   Televisions vs. Monitors
quote:Original post by Nintendo    "Our machine will be ready at the same time as the other new consoles, but we're not sold on developing powerful microprocessors to create graphics that cannot even be viewed on existing televisions," I was just wondering, if you all think Sony and Microsoft are planning on concentrating on graphics that can't be seen on existing televisions.  With such specs as Sony and Microsoft claim, televisions for videogames may be a thing of the past.forget the "clicky" as you call it[edited by - Spider-Man on February 10, 2004 1:02:10 AM]
  If a more powerful processor allows a game to spit out the same sort of graphics as I am seeing on current games, but still allow some cycles to go towards AI and such, then I am all for more powerful processors. Besides, I would never play a video game on a monitor if I could play it on television.  Screens are bigger.  Plus high definition television looks pretty damn nice.  If the next generation consoles support high def resolutions then all the better.CM ;  Agreed, Digital Television and HDTV (they are two seperate things) have a lot more scan lines than current TV''s.  I beleive their maximum resolution is around 1080x768, I cant quite remember.  I did a report on Digital Television and now I cant wait to get one.   "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, drown a man in the water and the fish will eat for a week! 