360 Update Today

Mr Men · 9 May 2007 at 13:17

dannyraul said:
Has anyone tried plugging in a USB keyboard to use MSN, does it work?

yes

Frost · 9 May 2007 at 13:17

dannyraul said:
Has anyone tried plugging in a USB keyboard to use MSN, does it work?

Yes it works very well

ill have to get a kb just for the 360 now i guess :eek:

BloodWolf · 9 May 2007 at 13:23

Mr Men said:
yes

might get a cheap one now

Kreeeee · 9 May 2007 at 13:27

dokko said:
Maybe the Dell is just too good, well the quality difference between the two displays say it all.

No, not at all. The blacks were horrendous on the dell before the update, now they are great

Kreeeee · 9 May 2007 at 13:28

Clark Nova said:
I didn't realise that the 360 upscaled DVDs. Is that right or am I getting my wires crossed? Certainly DVD playback is much better through my upscaling Pioneer player.

Only via the VGA cable.

Clark Nova said:
Oh right, I guess that's nice but I don't really want to have to buy another cable to do it. Is the DVD playback as noisy as when you are playing a game and the disc is spinning in the drive? If it is I don't think I'll bother.

No, the drive spins at 4x iirc and is, for all intents and purposes, silent.

I've been very impressed by the 360s DVD playback ability

miracleboy · 9 May 2007 at 13:32

Can anyone confirm if this fixes the tearing issues on VGA in Dead Rising? (at work at the mo). Thanks

Rodge · 9 May 2007 at 13:33

anyone else tried tversity since the update?

mine seems to have stopped showing any videos.

Kreeeee · 9 May 2007 at 13:35

miracleboy said:
Can anyone confirm if this fixes the tearing issues on VGA in Dead Rising? (at work at the mo). Thanks

Nope.

But surely that's a problem with the game code and not the firmware/OS?

dannyjo22 · 9 May 2007 at 13:36

Kreeeee said:
No, the drive spins at 4x iirc and is, for all intents and purposes, silent.

I've been very impressed by the 360s DVD playback ability

I'm impressed by the picture playback on the 360 but the noise irritates the hell out of me when watching a film, yet I dont really notice it gaming.

BloodWolf · 9 May 2007 at 13:36

Just updated mine, works great thankfully

Abooie · 9 May 2007 at 14:00

smcshaw said:
Apparently they've improved VGA picture quality and have added reference levels to alter how 'black' appears etc.

I just need someone with a Tosh 32WLT66 and a VGA cable to see what it looks like as I'd like the upscaling abilities if they've sorted the colour!

Right, have it hooked up via VGA and my thoughts are ..

.. it's superb. I've set Enhancements to "Intermediate" and don't think the colours are washed out at all. Over-all I feel the picture is much sharper and I've now got the added advantage of upscaled DVDs. Excellent.

Having had a bit of a play I'm giving a definate thumbs up to the new marketplace tab, I feel it's finally very usable. There are also lots of nice little improvements like how it remembers where you are in trailers with a new option to 'resume'.

dannyraul · 9 May 2007 at 14:05

Just got a USB keyboard and it actually works! It goes a bit mad tho when you are typing a message - the letters still highlight in the virtual keyboard and if you are typing fast tends to put you off, but apart from that it works great. The colours seem deeper using VGA when set up Expanded aswell.

Andy298 · 9 May 2007 at 14:08

smcshaw said:
Right, have it hooked up via VGA and my thoughts are ..

.. it's superb. I've set Enhancements to "Intermediate" and don't think the colours are washed out at all. Over-all I feel the picture is much sharper and I've now got the added advantage of upscaled DVDs. Excellent.

Having had a bit of a play I'm giving a definate thumbs up to the new marketplace tab, I feel it's finally very usable. There are also lots of nice little improvements like how it remembers where you are in trailers with a new option to 'resume'.

What res you running at dude as I have that TV also.

Kreeeee · 9 May 2007 at 14:09

dannyjo22 said:
I'm impressed by the picture playback on the 360 but the noise irritates the hell out of me when watching a film, yet I dont really notice it gaming.

My 360's silent when watching films =/

The drives stupidly noisey when gaming though.

Abooie · 9 May 2007 at 14:13

Andy298 said:
What res you running at dude as I have that TV also.

1360 x 768

The reports were always that the colours were very washed out with this TV over VGA so I've been running 1080i over Component for ages.

Will give it a good run tonight (well before and after watching Man Utd stuff Chelsea) so I'll report more thoughts later.

Bonjour · 9 May 2007 at 14:22

I didn't realise there was an issue, but the colours are so much better through a VGA connection following this update.

Good stuff.

AWPC · 9 May 2007 at 14:28

miracleboy said:
Can anyone confirm if this fixes the tearing issues on VGA in Dead Rising? (at work at the mo). Thanks

Try using the component input instead. This fixed it for me as it appears that the 360 has issues with some VGA inputs on HDTV's due to it not matching the exact refresh rate.

miracleboy · 9 May 2007 at 14:36

Kreeeee said:
Nope.

But surely that's a problem with the game code and not the firmware/OS?

I guess, but I had a vain hope that they might have changed something in the VGA code that helped the problem.

I want to play Dead Rising tear free on VGA!

AWPC said:
Try using the component input instead. This fixed it for me as it appears that the 360 has issues with some VGA inputs on HDTV's due to it not matching the exact refresh rate.

Yeah I always did have it on component and it was fine then, moved the 360 over to VGA when I got the Wii which is now on the component. I'm very happy with VGA apart from this issue.

Andy298 · 9 May 2007 at 16:01

smcshaw said:
1360 x 768

The reports were always that the colours were very washed out with this TV over VGA so I've been running 1080i over Component for ages.

Will give it a good run tonight (well before and after watching Man Utd stuff Chelsea) so I'll report more thoughts later.

Do you not have the issue where the screen is left justified? I'm lead to believe this is because the set doesn't do 1:1 but I've read of quite a few people having no issues at all at the res.

Sime · 9 May 2007 at 16:08

EH! WTF, just downloaded the update now everything I try and download off of Xbox Live and Arcade stop at 1% and cancel after afew mins! ANYONE HELP!!??