PC LCD monitor with X360?
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DVI supports 1440x900, 1680x1050 as the closest resolutions. HDMI is limited to 720p, 1080p with nothing between. Xbox360 scaling seems to be very good, but if your monitor is 1600x900 and has to scale itself, image quality will really depend on the quality of the monitors scaler.
Trust me on this, get a native 22" 1680x1050 LCD you will not regret it.
X360 will look very good on it as well as HDTV programs from cable providers like DirectTV.
You will see no improvement with a 1080p native display infact you will see some degredation like tearing in some games.
X360 will look very good on it as well as HDTV programs from cable providers like DirectTV.
You will see no improvement with a 1080p native display infact you will see some degredation like tearing in some games.
I have used 3 VGA displays.
21" Trinitron CRT 1600x1200. Most games worked fine @ 1280x1024, and for games like PGR3 and Halo 3 I just squash'd em.
I was using a Hyundia L90D+ (19" 1280x1024). Most games worked fine at 1280x720p in the Xbox settings. A couple older ones did not; Halo 3 ran at a lower resolution in 5:4 and filled the screen.
Last year my parents gifted me a 28" HannsG HG281D ($300 at Costco; looks good when calibrated sans some backlight bleeding). It is a 1920x1200 display. I set the 360 to 1080p and everything has looked fine. Yes, the screen stretches some but it is hard to notice. The display has pixel mapping or such but 720p and 1080p stretched look solid and as a PC display near zero lag.
That is one of the biggest benefits of the cheap TN displays when ran w/o scaling--you avoid video lag.
You can search my ol' posts bemoaning MS's poor 1280x1024 support in a couple games.
Anyhow, if you can afford $300 the HannsG is a BIG display. And you can find good deals on 24" all the time. Good luck!
Maybe you will have a new display by the time [strike]my Xbox[/strike] someone's "repaired" Xbox gets here.
21" Trinitron CRT 1600x1200. Most games worked fine @ 1280x1024, and for games like PGR3 and Halo 3 I just squash'd em.
I was using a Hyundia L90D+ (19" 1280x1024). Most games worked fine at 1280x720p in the Xbox settings. A couple older ones did not; Halo 3 ran at a lower resolution in 5:4 and filled the screen.
Last year my parents gifted me a 28" HannsG HG281D ($300 at Costco; looks good when calibrated sans some backlight bleeding). It is a 1920x1200 display. I set the 360 to 1080p and everything has looked fine. Yes, the screen stretches some but it is hard to notice. The display has pixel mapping or such but 720p and 1080p stretched look solid and as a PC display near zero lag.
That is one of the biggest benefits of the cheap TN displays when ran w/o scaling--you avoid video lag.
You can search my ol' posts bemoaning MS's poor 1280x1024 support in a couple games.
Anyhow, if you can afford $300 the HannsG is a BIG display. And you can find good deals on 24" all the time. Good luck!
Maybe you will have a new display by the time [strike]my Xbox[/strike] someone's "repaired" Xbox gets here.
http://www.xbox.com/en-us/hardware/x/xbox360prosystem/highdefdetails.htm
I think this may be old, but at least some info on support resolutions:
Btw, you may need to run a trick to change your resolution if the display cannot accept it. I forget how but do a search on me and resetting the Xbox resolution.
I think this may be old, but at least some info on support resolutions:
- 640 x 480
- 848 x 480
- 1024 x 768
- 1280 x 720 (equivalent to 720p)
- 1280 x 768
- 1280 x 1024
- 1360 x 768
- 1920 x 1080
Btw, you may need to run a trick to change your resolution if the display cannot accept it. I forget how but do a search on me and resetting the Xbox resolution.
im using the VGA on my xbox 360 to BenQ 1440x900 (16:10) lcd monitor.
the xbox will scale the games to fullscreen with black border on top and bottom
so the game will no get stretched. but got that black bar.....
the xbox will scale the games to fullscreen with black border on top and bottom
so the game will no get stretched. but got that black bar.....
I could never understand this.
They say they added 16X10 over VGA or HDMI, and support for 1440x900 or 1680x1050.
I connect my Xbox through HDMI to my lcd which has 1680x1050 native resolution, and I can only access 480p/720p/1080i/1080p.
No 16x10 available through HDMI.
What could be the reason for this behaviour?
I think it's an assumption on their part, which is kind of stupid. They assume HDMI means you're using a TV and DVI means you're using a computer monitor.
I've got a native 22" 1680x1050 LCD and it is really fantastic, no regrets, really, I am just enjoying it and can recommend everybody.
Silent_Buddha
Legend
It's possible that your LCD doesn't report any 16x10 capabilitys through the HDMI connector. On the computer you could overrule that and force 16x10 modes through .inf files or registry hacking, but the X360 has to rely on the resolutation capabilities as reported by your device. If it were to ignore it and your device truly wasn't capable of the resolution, you'd end up with a blank screen.
Regards,
SB
Dungeonscaper
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If you want the best picture quality get a native 1280x720 monitor. I spend ages looking and eventually found a 17" one made by gateway.
I think he's looking for something that's bigger than 17"...
Anyway I still believe the best resolution to screen size ratio to performance for X360 is still a 22"+ 1680x1050 native display using HDMI to HDMI or HDMI to DVI.
Silent_Buddha
Legend
HDMI to DVI is something that might be worth him trying for a 16:10 res if his HDMI on the monitor isn't reporting that res as available over HDMI. I believe the adapters for that are fairly cheap.
Regards,
SB
Dungeonscaper
Newcomer
RudeCurve said:
360 supports it, this was in fact the resolution of my old monitor, but it's not native, just 720p upscaled
Yeah I know but you wouldn't want a native 1280x720 22"+ monitor...
1680x1050 is the ideal balance for a 22"+ LCD....PCs, X360s and HDTV programs will all look good on said monitor.
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