Some XB360 summary info

[Shifty Geezer]

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=11246

Everything from hardware to the new dashboard discussed and uncovered
With the launch of Microsoft's next console only a few short months away, the firm's developer group boss Chris Satchell has revealed a host of new hardware and functionality information about the system.

Fairly generic stuff, but it does clarify some points. eg. iPod and PSP are recognised directly. You play music from both, and access pictures from PSP but not movies yet.

 

[pipo]

Yeah, and the fact that the RGB scart is not in the (premium) box.

 

[Mefisutoferesu]

Wait, the Xbox 360 can decode PSP video? Isn't that encoded in H.264? I thought they only codecs MS have access to is the WMVHD codec? Yes, you said "yet", but that implies it's possible when it was said not to be... I'm sleepy, so I'm probably missing the obvious, but seems strange.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

From the article:

For now, you can play music and access photographs on the PSP, but you can't do video yet. That may happen, but Satchell joked that Sony wasn't exactly giving them a helping hand there.

By 'helping' hand he may mean 'not forthcoming with information' or may mean 'not providing a codec we can use'. All we know is PSP video on XB360 is a no-no. Though would you really want to watch 480x272 movies on your 42" plasma? Or is he talking about converting and uploading media onto PSP (which you can use the MCE PC for anyway, so that can't be it)?

 

[ninzel]

"RGB video output will only be possible if you purchase the GBP 17.99 cable separately - regardless of whether you paid GBP 209.99 or GBP 279.99 for your Xbox 360 console."

WTF, does this mean that even if you buy the premium version you still have to buy the component video cables seperately?? If true WHY?I thought the Premium pacjk included the component cables.

 

[Uncle]

I thought the Premium pacjk included the component cables.

RGB and component cables are two different things.

 

[ninzel]

RGB and component cables are two different things.

Oh ok I thought RGB stood for red green blue so that was another way of saying component cables. What are RGB scart cables?

 

[Guden Oden]

WTF, does this mean that even if you buy the premium version you still have to buy the component video cables seperately??

To clarify what a previous poster said in regards to this very post:

RGB cable = scart cable; single big clumsy rectangular 20-pin connector. Typically sold at rip-off price here in europe by console manufacturers. Component cable in comparison transfers video in YUV format (not RGB) through three discrete RCA connectors. MS's component cable also has RCA plugs for composite video and stereo audio, but those aren't actually needed for component video.

 

[ninzel]

To clarify what a previous poster said in regards to this very post:

RGB cable = scart cable; single big clumsy rectangular 20-pin connector. Typically sold at rip-off price here in europe by console manufacturers. Component cable in comparison transfers video in YUV format (not RGB) through three discrete RCA connectors. MS's component cable also has RCA plugs for composite video and stereo audio, but those aren't actually needed for component video.

Ok so in laymens terms what do you use the RGB scart cable to connect to, a computer?
And the components are used to connect to TV?

 

[Uncle]

Ok so in laymens terms what do you use the RGB scart cable to connect to, a computer?
And the components are used to connect to TV?

Both are for TVs. Component is just a better (HD capable) signal.


Edit:
Maybe this helps:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_video

 

[sir doris]

Ok so in laymens terms what do you use the RGB scart cable to connect to, a computer?
And the components are used to connect to TV?

Depends on the TV, Most TVs have SCART sockets but not all have RGB inputs (on all the sockets), in which case the TV would use composite (which is the lowest quality). Only Higher End TVs and HDTV have component inputs. So it depends on your TV, free sockets on your TV and how important picture quality is to you as to what cables are required.

Component > RGB > Composite

EDIT: I'm too slow