Originally Posted by sebbbi
Current generation consoles are not capable of running real games in Full HD 1080p (1920x1080) resolution fast enough. Only a couple of games with really simple graphics (card games such as Texas Hold 'Em) are released supporting it. Most games on PS3 and XBox 360 are rendering on standard HD 720p (1280x720) resolution at 30 fps and some games are using even smaller resolutions. 1080p requires 2.25 times more pixel shader performance compared to 720p to run at same frame rate.
Trials HD is rendering 60 fps at 720p (1280x720). We experimented 30 fps rendering also during the development, but that felt too choppy for a fast paced game that needed very good response time and user input timing. Xbox 360 video scaler is pretty good. It's much better than scalers in PC monitors at least (bicubic/lanczos vs simple bilinear). For best quality you should select the monitor/TV resolution you are using from the Xbox console settings. This way the Xbox 360 scaler does the scaling the and the monitor/TV just outputs the image pixel perfect without any additional scaling.