Anyone using a 19" wide screen monitor on the Xbox 360?

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I am trying to find a suitable display for the 360, i am thinking about using a 19" monitor but i am concerned about the native resolution and scaling. I know LCDs look awful when they are not ran at their designed resolutions, i know the 360 renders @ 1280x720 so somewhere along the line scaling will be necessary.

So what i am asking is for opinions of those who use such screen with the Xbox, and what settings they use both on the panel and the 360. If anyone has any pics that would be great too.
 
My L194WT arrived today, running 1360x768 and it looks amazing, better than my 170X5, I'm seeing colours I never knew were there before, especially on the customised paintjobs on saints row, it's a bloody bargain at £160.

There is no scaling issues what so ever, my old monitor (170X5) was running it's native res from my 360, 1280x1024, and the L194WT looks better.

My opinion is, as long as you get a new model, good panel, good make, then you'll have no scaling issues at all, my 170X5 suffered from it on anything but 1280x1024, the L194WT, none at all.

Oh it's using the auto-adjust settings by the way.
 
You had much use out of it on a pc or is is just an xbox thing? Any pics also? Any info would be cool, shall be putting an order in for one of these int he next few days.
 
It's just for my Xbox but I can plug my PC into it and see what it's like if you want, will you be using it for a 360 or just the PC?

Because it's excelled on my 360, I couldn't fault it for anything, I watched the Big Lebowski DVD on my 360 earlier and it looked great on movies to, I just can't believe it's only £140-£160, it's an incredible bargain.

It uses DFC to achieve 2000:1 contrast ratio, but I've not noticed it at all, it's just as good as an un-aided 2000:1 panel would be in my opinion, and it's 800:1 or 1000:1 even without DFC, so still damn good, but DFC doesn't detriment it in anyway, so it's awesome.

I've only used it for my 360 and movies though, but it's amazing in those areas, like I said, I'll give it a spin on my PC if you want.

I only have my D600 phone as a camera so you wouldn't be able to get any idea of image quality from photos

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if you feel like it then :p

It will only be used on my pc here, wish i had a 360 lol. I have heard bad things about the DFC, will most likely turn it off, I gather this has 1000:1 with it turned off, which is great anyway.
 
Clarkey said:
if you feel like it then :p

It will only be used on my pc here, wish i had a 360 lol. I have heard bad things about the DFC, will most likely turn it off, I gather this has 1000:1 with it turned off, which is great anyway.
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Apparently some people have noticed a flickering effect with DFC on, but I've not had any of that and it doesn't detriment the quality in any way, at least not on the 360, might be different on the PC, but even with it off it's still a damn good monitor.
 
this is good news. I've had an LG TFT before (an L1710B, £300 back in the day!) and it was great, things have come along since then though, this is much cheaper and better specced, if its as good as my old LG was then i'll be over the moon.
 
Not using 19" here, using 20", but the upscaling from 1280*768 doesn't seem to hurt the picture significantly here. Maybe it's slightly softer than native res would be, but something like GOW still looks fantastic.

Personally I don't rate these dynamic contrast modes. My Dell has it and I always have it turned off. It doesn't give you a deeper black at all, it just brightens the screen when you're in a dark area to artificially pull out more detail. You can constantly see it adjusting too which is very unpleasant. Maybe the LG one is better though.
 
fish99 said:
Maybe the LG one is better though.
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It is, nothing like any of the enhanced modes of other monitors, like I said, it looks just like an un-aided 2000:1 panel would in my opinon, no ill effects what so ever, even in dark areas.

When you scroll through the modes it'll show half the screen your normal settings and half the highlighted settings so you can compare the two which is pretty cool.
 
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Wow thanks for the fast replies, I got more here in 30 minutes than i did in 20 hours on the anandtech forums!

So the L194WT is that good then? I'll have to look into this one, its really cheap too!
If you have those pics that would be really great too. Thanks in advance
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Mr_White said:
My L194WT arrived today, running 1360x768 and it looks amazing, better than my 170X5, I'm seeing colours I never knew were there before, especially on the customised paintjobs on saints row, it's a bloody bargain at £160.

There is no scaling issues what so ever, my old monitor (170X5) was running it's native res from my 360, 1280x1024, and the L194WT looks better.

My opinion is, as long as you get a new model, good panel, good make, then you'll have no scaling issues at all, my 170X5 suffered from it on anything but 1280x1024, the L194WT, none at all.

Oh it's using the auto-adjust settings by the way.
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So are you auto adjusting the monitor resolution from 1440x900 to 1360x768 for the 360? If so how do you do that?
I have the same monitor and when viewing the 360 it says it is running at 1024x768 for some reason. no matter what i change the 360 display to in dashboard.
 
No, it's set to 1360x768 in my 360 dashboard, then I just press auto-adjust on the monitor to get the picture looking it's best via 1360x768.

I can set it to 1920x1080 if I want, although it doesn't all fit on the screen.
 
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ah yes but when you switch the dashboard to 1360x768 what does your monitor then run at. if you check this in the monitor menu i will bet it says 1024x768.
 
Don't suppose this really matters, but all widescreen TFT monitors are 16:10, not 16:9, so the best res to select from the dashboard is 1280*768, which is the closest to 16:10.
 
yeah but the problem is that my monitor does not seem to automatically support that resolution and goes to 1024x768 when i select it. therefore i am running it on 1280x720 which the monitor automatically changes to.
 
Ah sorry, I should have read the thread a bit more closely. Seems a bit odd it should say it's in 1024*768, since presumably the 360 is still outputting 1280*768. Was it clipping the left and right edges off the picture and did the aspect ratio look correct? Can you set the monitor to 1280*768 in windows?
 
no it wont let me choose that resolution in windows...not using the method i know anyhow. the strange thing is i cant change to 1280x720 in windows either but when i switch dashboard to that the monitor changes to that too!
 
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