CRT on the 360

Ind3h! · 7 Aug 2009 at 20:42

Evening folks, I was just wondering what the 360 looked like on a CRT monitor? As I was thinking of buying a vga cable.

Streeteh · 7 Aug 2009 at 20:50

The 360 has a built in scaler chip that supports most common resolutions so it should look pretty good!

Ind3h! · 7 Aug 2009 at 21:06

Sound!
Cheers for that!

Zensuji · 7 Aug 2009 at 21:06

I wanted to run my 360 on my Dell 21" CRT and bought a VGA. The amount of flicker was just too much for my eyes though as obviously its only 60hz...however I do usually run the monitor on 100-120hz so I've probably become very sensitive to it.

V4NT0M · 8 Aug 2009 at 02:51

60Hz will hurt your face!

Though it depends really, if you're still using CRT TVs around the house you may not notice it as much. For me CRT televisions and monitors are becoming a pain to watch as 99% of the time I'm using LCD, even my dad has an LCD TV.

drew64 · 8 Aug 2009 at 03:00

Certain games like Dead rising fail no non hi-def screens.

Warbie · 8 Aug 2009 at 03:09

It'll look fine on a crt tv, but on a monitor it'll be a flickery mess. 60 hz is not good for the eyes!

sean · 8 Aug 2009 at 15:20

Warbie said:
It'll look fine on a crt tv, but on a monitor it'll be a flickery mess. 60 hz is not good for the eyes!

Don't see why you say that as most CRT TVs also scan at 60Hz (or even 50Hz for broadcast TV and older consoles) and they're interlaced, too.

With a decent sized VGA monitor your xbox 360 games should look great. Shame about that aspect ratio though

daz · 8 Aug 2009 at 16:38

drew64 said:
Certain games like Dead rising fail no non hi-def screens.

CRT monitors have been "hi-def" since about 1990.

drew64 · 8 Aug 2009 at 16:43

daz said:
CRT monitors have been "hi-def" since about 1990.

k, try playing dead rising on it

Streeteh · 8 Aug 2009 at 16:45

drew64 said:
k, try playing dead rising on it

What goes wrong exactly? Some sort of picture corruption?

Also, CRT monitors have been hi-def for decades as previously said, in fact it'd probably be a challenge to find a crt monitor that was a lower resolution than 720p. If there's problems with Dead Rising on a CRT monitor it isn't because they're not high definition, its probably more to do with the aspect ratio.

Buffman · 8 Aug 2009 at 16:48

I know dead rising has a problem with the text being too small to read on an SDTV, should be fine on a monitor though.

gam3r · 8 Aug 2009 at 17:10

It's good...I used to play on my old dell 19" CRT a few years back..never had any problems, picture was very sharp, just make sure you get the official vga cable, the others seem to be poor quality.

Streeteh · 8 Aug 2009 at 17:11

gam3r said:
just make sure you get the official vga cable, the others seem to be poor quality.

True, very important point.

orderoftheflame · 8 Aug 2009 at 17:18

drew64 said:
k, try playing dead rising on it

I've got plenty of "hi-def" CRT monitors sat in the loft mate.

I think you need to realise the difference in TV hi-def/lo-def resolutions and what PC monitors have been for years. Do your research.

gam3r said:
just make sure you get the official vga cable, the others seem to be poor quality.

Another + for this point. Don't get a cheap one.

Substance · 8 Aug 2009 at 18:46

drew64 said:
k, try playing dead rising on it

You are mistaking CRT for SD, dead rising is pretty much unplayable on an SD display, nothing to do with CRT/LCD, it looks crap on SD LCD displays

Warbie · 8 Aug 2009 at 19:00

sean said:
Don't see why you say that as most CRT TVs also scan at 60Hz (or even 50Hz for broadcast TV and older consoles) and they're interlaced, too.

With a decent sized VGA monitor your xbox 360 games should look great. Shame about that aspect ratio though

CRT tvs don't process the image the same way montiors do. I can't remember the technical reason behind this, but it's out there if you want to search.

Try playing a pc game at 60hz - thats what it'll look like.

Streeteh · 8 Aug 2009 at 19:02

Warbie said:
CRT tvs don't process the image the same way montiors do. I can't remember the technical reason behind this - but it's out there if you want to search.

A 60 hz game on a crt tv does not look like a 60 hz game on a crt tv.

I think you're partly right, it is worse on a monitor, but try sitting right in front of a crt TV, it's almost as much agony as a CRT monitor running at 60hz. I used to run my monitor at 60hz all the time (it was crap and only supported that at higher resolutions) but just sat back a bit and it was ok. If i sat right up next to it like i do with my LCD monitor it was like some form of torture though.