HDMI Premiums!

Logsi · 7 Oct 2007 at 03:03

Hey Guys,

A mate bought a premium a couple days ago and low and behold its got HDMI on it! Also has all the new things like Benq drive and extra heatsink. Very quite compared to my near launch day console yet still not quiet enough. His manufacture date was 2007-07-10, funny if it was today! Also, there was many things that were different between our consoles;

*The Hard drive-Mine has silver around the sides of it while his are grey, the silver bit that says HDD was different also.
*The Grey plastic-Mine is a shiny grey while my mates new one was a kinda dull matte colour. Just bought a new controller and that was also a different colour.
*Component Cable-Thinner and less pins than my one.

Took it over mine and plugged it into my TV (as he has no HDTV) and put the HDMI to the test!

And i have to say it was a lot worse than the analogue connection, not to my surprise. It was hard to explain but you can just see the digitized picture, it wasnt nice and smooth as the component connection was. Its like going from Analogue tv and digital tv. I would still use Component if i had a HDMI one.

Was nice to see another 360 as i have only played on mine, none of my mates have got one except me. Seems like they have all got one on order since they snapped the £199.99 deal. Was nice and quiet!

Has anyone else on here got a HDMI premium?

Josh

yaboy · 7 Oct 2007 at 03:10

So the 199.99 ones have hdmi? ;o

Logsi · 7 Oct 2007 at 03:37

yaboy said:
So the 199.99 ones have hdmi? ;o

Said friend missed out on that deal. Waiting for another mate to see if his has HDMI!

Josh

Raymond Lin · 7 Oct 2007 at 04:04

got told in the shop that all premium made after the launch of the elite have hdmi now.

wedgie · 7 Oct 2007 at 04:59

Still doesn't mean you're guaranteed not to get a non HDMI premium from the old stock.

Best to check for the time being.

Kreeeee · 7 Oct 2007 at 07:34

5bjoshua said:
Said friend missed out on that deal. Waiting for another mate to see if his has HDMI!

Josh

There's a better deal out there anyway.

Bigpops · 7 Oct 2007 at 11:45

5bjoshua said:
Hey Guys,
*The Hard drive-Mine has silver around the sides of it while his are grey, the silver bit that says HDD was different also.
*The Grey plastic-Mine is a shiny grey while my mates new one was a kinda dull matte colour. Just bought a new controller and that was also a different colour.

Josh

Microsoft changed from metallic silver on the premium HDD, console sides, and joypad trim; to the boring grey of the Core version at least a year ago. Maybe more.

Logsi · 7 Oct 2007 at 12:37

Kreeeee said:
There's a better deal out there anyway.

I wouldnt know.

Bigpops said:
Microsoft changed from metallic silver on the premium HDD, console sides, and joypad trim; to the boring grey of the Core version at least a year ago. Maybe more.

I dont like the grey, seems cheap. The hard drive looks really cheap compared to mine.

Josh

Metalface Mark · 7 Oct 2007 at 12:39

5bjoshua said:
Hey Guys,

A mate bought a premium a couple days ago and low and behold its got HDMI on it! Also has all the new things like Benq drive and extra heatsink. Very quite compared to my near launch day console yet still not quiet enough. His manufacture date was 2007-07-10, funny if it was today! Also, there was many things that were different between our consoles;

*The Hard drive-Mine has silver around the sides of it while his are grey, the silver bit that says HDD was different also.
*The Grey plastic-Mine is a shiny grey while my mates new one was a kinda dull matte colour. Just bought a new controller and that was also a different colour.
*Component Cable-Thinner and less pins than my one.

Took it over mine and plugged it into my TV (as he has no HDTV) and put the HDMI to the test!

And i have to say it was a lot worse than the analogue connection, not to my surprise. It was hard to explain but you can just see the digitized picture, it wasnt nice and smooth as the component connection was. Its like going from Analogue tv and digital tv. I would still use Component if i had a HDMI one.

Was nice to see another 360 as i have only played on mine, none of my mates have got one except me. Seems like they have all got one on order since they snapped the £199.99 deal. Was nice and quiet!

Has anyone else on here got a HDMI premium?

Josh

It depends what his TV and his native resolution is, probably explains why component is better on that particular tv.

Logsi · 7 Oct 2007 at 12:42

InwardSinging said:
It depends what his TV and his native resolution is, probably explains why component is better on that particular tv.

Hey Inward,

We took his console over to mine and played it on my HDTV through HDMI. Just didnt seem as good a picture as component, you could see it was digital, hard to explain without close up pictures. (Samsung 32" R74)

Josh

Phil99 · 7 Oct 2007 at 14:00

5bjoshua said:
Hey Inward,

We took his console over to mine and played it on my HDTV through HDMI. Just didnt seem as good a picture as component, you could see it was digital, hard to explain without close up pictures. (Samsung 32" R74)

Josh

Was sharpness turned up on the HDMI input compared to the Component input?

Kreeeee · 7 Oct 2007 at 14:00

5bjoshua said:
*The Hard drive-Mine has silver around the sides of it while his are grey, the silver bit that says HDD was different also.
*The Grey plastic-Mine is a shiny grey while my mates new one was a kinda dull matte colour. Just bought a new controller and that was also a different colour.
*Component Cable-Thinner and less pins than my one.

These changes are very old now.

Did you configure HDMI at all or just whack it on?

Metalface Mark · 7 Oct 2007 at 14:05

5bjoshua said:
Hey Inward,

We took his console over to mine and played it on my HDTV through HDMI. Just didnt seem as good a picture as component, you could see it was digital, hard to explain without close up pictures. (Samsung 32" R74)

Josh

I guess every Tv is different, component input on my Sony D403000 is absolutely dire, so i use VGA for my 360.

Its good to know though, i had considered switching my 360 for an hdmi version, it looks like its not worth it really.

Logsi · 7 Oct 2007 at 15:24

Phil99 said:
Was sharpness turned up on the HDMI input compared to the Component input?

Kreeeee said:
Did you configure HDMI at all or just whack it on?

It was near enough the same sharpness number on HDMI as with component, around the 70 mark, out of 100. The sharpness was fine though, its just the kind of digital "artifacts" (cant think of a better word) you see when your about 30cm away from the TV.

The HDMI was configured to what my PS3 uses and just plugged the 360 in. There was also a reference levels option like on VGA in the display settings for HDMI.

To inward, its really not worth it unless you want the ease of one cable, or using an amp with HDMI, the picture to me was better on an analogue connection.

Josh

punky_munky · 7 Oct 2007 at 18:32

What do you mean there are less pins on the component cable? :confused:

Oops Dead Again · 7 Oct 2007 at 18:35

wedgie said:
Still doesn't mean you're guaranteed not to get a non HDMI premium from the old stock.

Best to check for the time being.

Thats what I did when I bought mine last week, I asked for a premium with hdmi and the chap at the shop checked his stock and brought one out. So it is best to check with the shop first

Logsi · 7 Oct 2007 at 18:42

punky_munky said:
What do you mean there are less pins on the component cable?

If you look into the connector that plugs into the xbox it has less pins or connections than mine.

Josh

Kreeeee · 7 Oct 2007 at 18:46

Why do you have sharpness on 70!!!

It should be 50 tops, preferably around the 40-45 mark.

Logsi · 7 Oct 2007 at 19:29

Kreeeee said:
Why do you have sharpness on 70!!!

It should be 50 tops, preferably around the 40-45 mark.

Its what i find to be best. I think its at 65 to be exact. I did say around 70

.

Looks best to me and where im sitting so i left it like that, i did configure the sharpness for ages.

Josh

Warbie · 7 Oct 2007 at 19:31

You'll often find you need to calibrate each type of input seperately.