Hold on, if the iPad has retina display

[Rg2005]

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Does that mean that 720p videos and 1080p videos need to be upscaled and will look worse?

 

[Photics]

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Does that mean that 720p videos and 1080p videos need to be upscaled and will look worse?

I don't know about the iPad, but Upscaling on the PlayStation 3 has been pretty nice. It makes my DVD movies look great.

 

[ZilogZ80]

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Does that mean that 720p videos and 1080p videos need to be upscaled and will look worse?

I never thought I'd see someone complaining about too much resolution when watching videos. It's not like videos are meticulously arranged pixel-by-pixel anyway, like raster graphics can be. I'm sure they wouldn't look any worse.

 

[Airforcekid]

Not at that resolution but 720p on a 27inch imac starts to looks a little pixelated but that screen is to small to notice.

 

[LadyHoneyBabe]

Too much resolution?!? What next?

 

[afireintonto]

Too much resolution?!? What next?

macrumors sticky:
how to efficiently use your ipad's 4gb of ram.

 

[gloss]

Video doesn't really suffer from upscaling in the same way that raster graphics can.

 

[Code.Red]

No, they will not look worse. They will look mostly the same, although a slight bit better. The physical space the screen is will stay the same, but will be able to show much, much finer details.