xbox 360 hi def question

[tigersaw]

lets suppose I wanted to go shopping and get a new flat telly and xbox 360.
To get the best hi-def experience, whats the connection I need on the telly?
Is it HDMI, DVI, HDCP, progessive 1080i yada yada ?
Is the lead required included with the xbox?

I just fancy bolting the doors shut over christmas, closing the curtains, taking the phone off the hook, stocking up on pringles and playing online call of duty for hours and hours and hours. Wishful thinking I know.

Not sure, I think it's 1080 but I don't know anything about TV's.

Would be interested to find out though as I'm in the market for a new projector when I get a XB360.

Talking of which they just had an ad on TV for Gears of War with the Tears for Fears track from Donnie Darko, Can't wait to play that game

VGA cable works fine.

BTW if you want to use your new TV to play games, do not get plasma. Get LCD. Plasma does not like unchanged picture in one place for a while. With games you usually get a console, score board etc which doe not change at all. This can and will sooner rather than later cause small black appearing on your TV. Get some serious advice before you buy.

The cables included in the box, all you have to do is flick the switch to HDTV and plug in the red blue and green wires. mines not HD ready though......yet

And Gears of war is AWESOME, specially in high Def. My brothers got it already but i'm not allowed it until crimbo

The right cable is included if you buy a premium console, its not if you buy a core

Originally Posted by Dave The Rave

BTW if you want to use your new TV to play games, do not get plasma. Get LCD. Plasma does not like unchanged picture in one place for a while. With games you usually get a console, score board etc which doe not change at all. This can and will sooner rather than later cause small black appearing on your TV. Get some serious advice before you buy.

Really? That's not good. I'll keep that bit of info from my girlfriends dad i think, his plasma TV is his pride and joy!

LCD's are better anyway, IMO. I think they give a better, clearer picture.

Matt

Most of the high definition TVs that are available at the moment have a native resolution of 720p, so running the xbox at 1080i (or 1080p) won't help at all. Any of VGA, HDMI or Component will be OK.

[tigersaw]

Originally Posted by wyrdness

Most of the high definition TVs that are available at the moment have a native resolution of 720p, so running the xbox at 1080i (or 1080p) won't help at all. Any of VGA, HDMI or Component will be OK.

The telly I'm interested in is the LG 32LC liquid crystal, mainly because of its inter connectivity.
Its defined as HD ready, and looking up the definition of HD ready;

1. HD-reception both via analogue input and DVI or HDMI.
2. The DVI or HDMI input (digital inputs) must have support for HDCP.
3. The HD capable inputs must be able to transmit the formats 1280x720 at 50 and 60Hz progressive (720p) and 1920x1080 at 50 and 60Hz interlaced (1080i).

Part 3 states it must be able to display 1080 interlaced.

Is this the hi-def output of the xbox? I presume then it uses component cables rather than the proper HDMI connector.

I thought all this was supposed to be easy. No point in asking the sales assistant

Someone with an Xbox - can you take a look at the manual?

HDMI/DVI connection is the way forward. and HDMI and DVI are more or less the same thing. If you are to connect your pc to the tele, make sure you have dvi output from graphic card, standard vga does not support hi def hence you will need a upscaler which usually cost about 150 quid. (i found that out when i was trying to connect my laptop to my tele). component connections are analogue in nature, so it is subject to some amount of degradation and information loss. Therefore the use of component connections depends heavily on the image source.