480p and 720p are kind of awkward for 1080p sets though. And consoles like the original xbox bounce between those two resolutions. 480p scales up to 1080 by 2.25 resolution. 720p scales 1.5x to 1080p. It is weird and uneven. With a regular 2x scale you either get black borders or larger picture than the screen.... or it has to scale it down and you risk shimmer doing that. If you want to get 480p to work with a PVM, it is possible, but you are going to be paying out the nose. Those pvm L5 sets usually go for at least a thousand on ebay. More if you get a large 20 inch version.
I was looking at the retrotink 5x for scaling up 480p to my 1080p set figuring that was the best it was going to get. In doing research I noticed my life in gaming going nuts over 1440p monitors with the 5x. 240p content scales 6 times perfectly to 1440p, which the 5x does out the box right now. I noticed this old tweet from mike chi where he was going to add features to output specifically to 1440p.
So- ok. Why 1440p instead of 1080p or 4k?
1440p-
720p? 2x scale. 480p? 3x. Fits perfectly.
4k-
720p- 3x scale. 480- 4.5x scale :/
1080p is the worst for these resolutions...
480p goes up to 1080 by 2.25 resolution. 720p scales 1.5x to 1080p
Not only do they scale evenly at 1440p, but bouncing between games that do 480p in 4:3 and 720p in 16:9 is easy. It just works!
Currently you can only get 1440p computer monitors, not tvs. They only go up to 32 inches for now and are only a couple hundred bucks brand new. I think, eventually it'll be common for retro gamers to be all over these 1440p monitors. Not only are going to be the best monitor for upscaling 480/720, but they also do 240 *easily* at 6x. It can do it all. Every console that isn't modern, putting out 1080p or 4k, will work with it. If you are trying to get the best picture out of the awkward consoles from the sixth and seventh generation of consoles I don't think you can beat the 1440p monitors.
What do y'all think?
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