Component or VGA

[Princey]

Hey, I'm currently about to buy a Samsung R74 HDTV and an Xbox 360. A quick question though, which cable would you recommend for the best picture quality?

 

[ramdor]

Component.

From another forum....

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I currently move my 360 between my monitor (dell 24" do hicky) and tv (tosh 56" dlp) and have compared the vga cables as well as the component. In all situations the component looks better then the vga.

when they first launched the vga cables, they had a serious brightness problem that washed out the colors in games. That problem seems to have been fixed on some of the main resolutions, but is still there in some of the non-standard resolutions.

Here is a cnet comparison, just look at the difference in colours between the component and vga cables:

http://www.cnet.com.au/games/xbox/0,39029621,40060560-2,00.htm

Here is some random website with a decent comparison, again look at the colors, pay particular attention to pages 6 and 7 of the thread:

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=973982&page=2&pp=20

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Richie.

 

[Princey]

Just one more thing, I noticed the TV I'm getting has a vertical resolution of 768, will 720p still look OK or will it be stretched?

 

[vodkacokebloke]

loads of panels have a res of 768, itll look fine.

 

[tsinc80697]

if you look on avforums somewhere theres a post about which cable for which TV.
I have component and VGA cables for my Hyundai A321, and i think the VGA looks a lot nicer and crisper than the component.
Just a pain in the ass as it only has 1 VGA port on the TV

 

[Buttkicker]

On my 4 series Plasma the VGa connection is best... component is also very very good, i just prefer the picture via the VGA cable

 

[queamin]

Most people use vga for 360

 

[Metalface Mark]

I bought a 3rd party VGA cable today, and it looks very washed out on my tv, quite disapointed with it

Has anyone solved this washed out look by using an official one?

 

[ramdor]

I bought a 3rd party VGA cable today, and it looks very washed out on my tv, quite disapointed with it

Has anyone solved this washed out look by using an official one?

All my mates have tried vga cables and binned em. Component is the far better image, unless your specific display has poor component inputs.

Richie.

 

[Raider]

I've always used the Component cable on my LG 32LX2R the whole time. Reckon it's worth trying the VGA cable?

 

[mdjmcnally]

I have the same combo and use the official Microsoft VGA cable and was impressed with the picture quality. Would definitely recommend the VGA cable connection. The screen runs at 1360x768 @60Hz, make sure you turn on Game Mode as well. If you try and run at 720p then the screen disappears and you get a message back saying not supported by screen.

 

[Manlove is my forte]

How many of you that are trying to distinguish the difference between component and VGA have reconfigured your screen for each cable?

I mean if you are just using the TV out of the box then you could be getting any results.

Ideally you should have a different configuration for all of your input devices. I know not every TV offers that so it I would recommend picking the one you use the most and stick with that.

 

[SinaiSound]

I'm using the VGA cable with my 42PX60 and in my eyes it looks better than the component.

It also frees up the component connection for my gamecube