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360 VGA Cable Users...
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Demigod Mac
Member
my HDTV has a VGA input on it. Wonder if I should use that for my 360....?
DaddyZ said:
First check and see if your monitor will support 1280x720 input. I don't see why it wouldn't.
If it does support it, it's going to be displayed in 4:3 mode (like if you switch a game or movie into 16:9 mode on a normal TV while playing), so you'll just have to shrink your screen verticaly.
The VGA cable is equivalent to the component one. Personally, I'm going that way since my all my TV's component inputs are full.
As far as how much will be cut off on your monitor goes, you should be enable to the 4:3 option along with the 720p or whatever. How else would they deal with 4:3 HDTVs?
Or, if you still want to know, you could play a widescreen DVD on your computer and see.
As far as how much will be cut off on your monitor goes, you should be enable to the 4:3 option along with the 720p or whatever. How else would they deal with 4:3 HDTVs?
Or, if you still want to know, you could play a widescreen DVD on your computer and see.
johnjohnson
Member
The following resolutions are available when playing through VGA with the X360: http://www.dreisechzig.net/wp/wp-content/vgakabel360.jpg (if the link doesn't work, copy & paste it in a new browser window).
Boris "Doc Bobo" Schneider-Johne, product manager Xbox platform at Microsoft Germany writes in his private blog about the VGA stuff:
The games render only in the "plain" resolutions (480, 720, 1080) even if you selected a VGA mode with a different resolution. This means that 720 is going to be upscaled to 768. He couldn't believe that at first because the image looks perfectly sharp and without borders, but the game runs in 720 becuase when grabbing an image using their internal screengrabber tool he gets an image of 960x720 pixel.
Boris "Doc Bobo" Schneider-Johne, product manager Xbox platform at Microsoft Germany writes in his private blog about the VGA stuff:
The games render only in the "plain" resolutions (480, 720, 1080) even if you selected a VGA mode with a different resolution. This means that 720 is going to be upscaled to 768. He couldn't believe that at first because the image looks perfectly sharp and without borders, but the game runs in 720 becuase when grabbing an image using their internal screengrabber tool he gets an image of 960x720 pixel.
Minotauro said:
They don't have to "deal" with HDTVs because HDTV resolutions are 16:9. It's the 4:3 HDTVs that have to deal with the 360.
The Walmart kiosks wont let you set the console to 4:3 if you're at 720p, there's no reason to think it will let you use 4:3 resolutions with the VGA cable.
If you have a 4:3 display you're going to have to deal with letterboxing.
SSGMUN10000
Connoisseur Of Tedium
I havent decided if Im going with component or VGA. If there is no difference would having a component selector decrease the quality? My hdtv only has one component thats hooked up to my cable box and one vga that goes to my pc.
So I have VGA, and a selection of monitors and more importantly, a 360. This will change depending on your monitor, but this is what I got.
1. Widescreen VGA/DVI monitor - perfect widescreen 720, 1080i and native 1280x768 - all of which looked great.
2. Shitty CRT SVGA monitor. 1024x768 - looked INCREDIBLY good, but obviously 4:3 squished. No way to force widescreen on that monitor.
3. HDTV with VGA in. Able to get 720p widescreen (blackbarred) and it looked astonishing.
PS, component and VGA have IDENTICAL image quality. Depending on your cables and connections of course.
PPS., VGA cable has optical audio out for 5.1 AND stereo RCA. I am surprised there's no "headphone" audio out for PC speakers, but a $2 adapter will fix that.
1. Widescreen VGA/DVI monitor - perfect widescreen 720, 1080i and native 1280x768 - all of which looked great.
2. Shitty CRT SVGA monitor. 1024x768 - looked INCREDIBLY good, but obviously 4:3 squished. No way to force widescreen on that monitor.
3. HDTV with VGA in. Able to get 720p widescreen (blackbarred) and it looked astonishing.
PS, component and VGA have IDENTICAL image quality. Depending on your cables and connections of course.
PPS., VGA cable has optical audio out for 5.1 AND stereo RCA. I am surprised there's no "headphone" audio out for PC speakers, but a $2 adapter will fix that.
Abit of clarification please.
I've got a generic 19 inch PC monitor I bought in 2001. Looking at the adjustable resolutions I can choose I'm not sure what to make of them.
I see no 720,the nearest setting is 768.
Also-my monitor's resolution only goes as high as 1024.
So what's the deal? If I wanted to play in 720 would the games upscale to 768 then?
What about the monitor's 1024 setting? If the monitor doesn't go to 1080 then what,I'm only able to go to 768? Or would it just upscale to the nearerst setting closest to 1080,which would be 1024 on my monitor.(?)
I've got a generic 19 inch PC monitor I bought in 2001. Looking at the adjustable resolutions I can choose I'm not sure what to make of them.
I see no 720,the nearest setting is 768.
Also-my monitor's resolution only goes as high as 1024.
So what's the deal? If I wanted to play in 720 would the games upscale to 768 then?
What about the monitor's 1024 setting? If the monitor doesn't go to 1080 then what,I'm only able to go to 768? Or would it just upscale to the nearerst setting closest to 1080,which would be 1024 on my monitor.(?)
Demigod Mac
Member
is that a 4:3 HDTV?
Naked Snake
Member
I'm worried that most games will look quite jaggy on a PC monitor compared to a proper HDTV (running at same resolution), something about VGA monitors being too sharp totally killed VGA on current gen consoles for me... Sure next gen runs in higher resolution, but I bet it'll look better on an HDTV for games without FSAA.
Beer Monkey
Member
If you want to play 360 on a PC monitor, I'd suggest trying it out on the one you've got come Nov. 22. Then, if you aren't happy, try new ones with a return policy.
Likewise, if you already have an HDTV in 1080i, you might want to see how it looks first before dropping cash on a new set. I was seriously considering picking up an SXRD this month, but even by waiting a few months, prices will drop, the sets will probably get better (reliability, panel convergence, etc), and we'll learn more about any potential issues.
Likewise, if you already have an HDTV in 1080i, you might want to see how it looks first before dropping cash on a new set. I was seriously considering picking up an SXRD this month, but even by waiting a few months, prices will drop, the sets will probably get better (reliability, panel convergence, etc), and we'll learn more about any potential issues.
Beer Monkey
Member
If the scaler is worth a damn it can do aspect ratio correction (including adding black bars) itself with a simple menu option. If the dashboard designers left out such a feature by omission, they need to get an update out.
Aruarian Reflection
Chauffeur de la gdlk
So if I have a widescreen 17" laptop screen, I should be all set right?
Aruarian Reflection
Chauffeur de la gdlk
Oni Jazar said:
Indeed I do. I'm so happy that I don't have to get a HDTV
Uncle Dukey
Member
Sounds like I'm going to be screwed with my 1280x1024 LCD monitor.. It stretches widescreen resolutions to fill the screen. :|
Beer Monkey
Member
If the system can't do a 1280x768 16:9 letterbox, with black top and bottom bars on a 1280x1024 monitor, somebody at Microsoft is either incompetent or stupid.
Alas, that is probably the case.
Beer Monkey
Member
Actually, it's an extremely common LCD monitor resolution. It's well supported on PCs and there's nothing weird about it.
johnjohnson
Member
SnowWolf said:Indeed I do. I'm so happy that I don't have to get a HDTV
Didn't know there were notebooks with VGA or Composite in. May I ask you what device you have?
Panic_Attack
Banned
Um, I've never heard of a laptop having VGA in, wtf are you talking about?
Naked Snake
Member
Do we know if PS3 will have native VGA support?
Ultra Magnanimous
Member
Naked Snake said:
Most likely DVI, which revolution has been conformed to have too (IIRC).
Spinning Plates
Member
DaddyZ said:
Buy Now Pay Later is your friend........atleast in the UK it is.
joaomgcd said:
Doesn't the male end of that need to be female instead so you can plug your computer speaker cable into it?
Birbo said:
Oh, right, sorry.
You can get the other one I mentioned, and then one of these and you're set, if I'm not mistaken again:
Get it here for $1.90.
Or get a female to female version of the first adapter I mentioned, if you can find it
Edit: Here is the right adapter.
