Xbox One vs PS/4
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Just hold off all together, I got one but wouldn't advise anyone to get either console, though I can only speak for the xbox one. It's just a weak pc with a very clunky OS and as much as I don't like windows 8, 8 would have been a huge improvement. Half of my games are stuck in "update limbo". Learn from me!!!!
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1080P a gimmick?...I can see the pixels on my tv even at 1080P on 480P it looks very blocky.
Another note on the xbox one. My Kinect died yesterday after a less than a month of owning the thing. Have to go to the store and exchange it or call Microsoft to send new Kinect. I'm going to swap the whole thing at the store figured that way at least i'll have a month newer system.
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1080P a gimmick?...I can see the pixels on my tv even at 1080P on 480P it looks very blocky.
Another note on the xbox one. My Kinect died yesterday after a less than a month of owning the thing. Have to go to the store and exchange it or call Microsoft to send new Kinect. I'm going to swap the whole thing at the store figured that way at least i'll have a month newer system.
Another note on the xbox one. My Kinect died yesterday after a less than a month of owning the thing. Have to go to the store and exchange it or call Microsoft to send new Kinect. I'm going to swap the whole thing at the store figured that way at least i'll have a month newer system.
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1080P a gimmick?...I can see the pixels on my tv even at 1080P on 480P it looks very blocky. Another note on the xbox one. My Kinect died yesterday after a less than a month of owning the thing. Have to go to the store and exchange it or call Microsoft to send new Kinect. I'm going to swap the whole thing at the store figured that way at least i'll have a month newer system.
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Just hold off all together, I got one but wouldn't advise anyone to get either console, though I can only speak for the xbox one. It's just a weak pc with a very clunky OS and as much as I don't like windows 8, 8 would have been a huge improvement. Half of my games are stuck in "update limbo". Learn from me!!!!
my bro got one for xmas and his is also in "update limbo" it didn't want to finish an install all the way no matter many times he tried. I think he was doing some update so he could play online for ghosts
im going to stick to my wii u for awhile. I rather enjoy playing it and I just got 3d world and cant wait to try it out
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This is all you need to fix that problem. Seriously, if you still have a TV with just RCA and Composite video connections it's time to just replace it. You'll end up spending as much on digital to analog converters as a cheap 32" HDTV costs. Basically you need an HDMI to RCA converter. There aren't many on the market and the cheapest ones are about $50. The whole analog video system was essentially tossed in the trash about a decade ago and very few new products support it.
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my bro got one for xmas and his is also in "update limbo" it didn't want to finish an install all the way no matter many times he tried. I think he was doing some update so he could play online for ghosts
im going to stick to my wii u for awhile. I rather enjoy playing it and I just got 3d world and cant wait to try it out
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I made the mistake of taking a disc out during install, and that thoroughly pissed off the console. It didn't really cause any issues, but it was annoying until I completed it. I haven't had issues with update installs though.
Right now, they need to get the party chat fixed. It shouldn't take a combination of plugging in/taking out the mic, turning on/off party chat, and snapping/unsnapping the app. I swear it's a huge pain in the *** every time I try to jump in with a party. The 360 system was much, much simpler.
Right now, they need to get the party chat fixed. It shouldn't take a combination of plugging in/taking out the mic, turning on/off party chat, and snapping/unsnapping the app. I swear it's a huge pain in the *** every time I try to jump in with a party. The 360 system was much, much simpler.
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From: Suburbs of Dallas
Hey man, that's life.
Fact is neither the PS4 nor the Xbox One support SDTV resolution. The closest you get is 480p which still has to be deinterlaced before your SDTV can display it. Quite simply they are High Definition, digital output consoles. They are not designed to work with old standard definition televisions, and even with a converter it probably isn't going to look or work nearly as well as you hope.
It's not only going to require the conversion of both audio and video from digital to analog, but it's going to have to convert the video signal to an interlaced format as well. How well that conversion takes place is entirely up to the converter.
One thing is for certain though, some things that should be on screen will be cut off and most text will be impossible to read. If you're losing the widescreen format anything that takes places along the edges of the screen in either gameplay or during cutscenes will either be cut off and you won't see it. Alternatively it will be scaled down to a 360i resolution with black bars at the top and bottom (Letterboxed) to achieve the widescreen display. Text and HUD displays are formatted for HDTV resolutions and will be too small to display clearly at SDTV resolutions. You'll just get a blurry smear instead of clear letters.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that is life. Your televisions may still work, but they're obsolete. I've got a perfectly working 35mm SLR camera that hasn't been used in a decade myself. It cost me $800 new and I can't even sell it online for enough to cover the shipping, so I understand the disgust.
However, odds are a cheap HDTV doesn't cost any more than a new cell phone, and I'll bet money that you didn't wait until your last phone ceased to function before you replaced it, did you?
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Hey man, that's life. Fact is neither the PS4 nor the Xbox One support SDTV resolution. The closest you get is 480p which still has to be deinterlaced before your SDTV can display it. Quite simply they are High Definition, digital output consoles. They are not designed to work with old standard definition televisions, and even with a converter it probably isn't going to look or work nearly as well as you hope. It's not only going to require the conversion of both audio and video from digital to analog, but it's going to have to convert the video signal to an interlaced format as well. How well that conversion takes place is entirely up to the converter. One thing is for certain though, some things that should be on screen will be cut off and most text will be impossible to read. Since you're losing the widescreen format anything that takes places along the edges of the screen in either gameplay or during cutscenes will either be cut off and you won't see it, or it will be scaled down to a 360i resolution with black bars at the top and bottom (Letterboxed) to achieve the widescreen display. Text and HUD displays are formatted for HDTV resolutions and will be too small to display clearly at SDTV resolutions. You'll just get a blurry smear instead of clear letters. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that is life. Your televisions may still work, but they're obsolete. I've got a perfectly working 35mm SLR camera that hasn't been used in a decade myself. It cost me $800 new and I can't even sell it online for enough to cover the shipping, so I understand the disgust. However, odds are a cheap HDTV doesn't cost any more than a new cell phone, and I'll bet money that you didn't wait until your last phone ceased to function before you replaced it, did you?
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I made the mistake of taking a disc out during install, and that thoroughly pissed off the console. It didn't really cause any issues, but it was annoying until I completed it. I haven't had issues with update installs though.
Right now, they need to get the party chat fixed. It shouldn't take a combination of plugging in/taking out the mic, turning on/off party chat, and snapping/unsnapping the app. I swear it's a huge pain in the *** every time I try to jump in with a party. The 360 system was much, much simpler.
Right now, they need to get the party chat fixed. It shouldn't take a combination of plugging in/taking out the mic, turning on/off party chat, and snapping/unsnapping the app. I swear it's a huge pain in the *** every time I try to jump in with a party. The 360 system was much, much simpler.
The other thing, 360 was pretty clear about patches.
The ONE says 'it hasn't finished installing' when you are trying to run it while it's trying to patch it. Not bad, just not quite clear.
Can't wait to see the games within the next couple of years.
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