High Def on original Xbox?

Lanz · 8 May 2006 at 13:57

Instead of buying the official High Def pack for the xbox, I bought a Gamestar one:

Im just checking to make sure this will work fine, as it was much cheaper than any official one.

cheers

Lanz · 8 May 2006 at 14:19

Yeah all good, im really curious how xbmc looks when playing decent xvids at high def. (Will it give Sky HD a run for its money??)

Lanz · 10 May 2006 at 09:32

Mr Latte said:
Complete utter disaster, of course i speak from experience.

1) The offical MS HD pack with PAL-NTSC softmod (non hardware mod)
2) The Neoya HD-VGA cable

So what are you saying? This component set of leads wont work?

Im not paying 70 quid for an x2vga box, the VGA/DVI port will have my MCE plugged into it anyway.

Lanz · 10 May 2006 at 11:15

Hmm I've just got this cable installed and its all ghosty at NTSC high def modes, so it just a crappy product? or am I doing something wrong?

Lanz · 10 May 2006 at 20:21

So are you using NTSC with 480/720/1080 modes anabled in the dashboard?

Lanz · 10 May 2006 at 23:13

What im saying is i had this device and im almost certain it just outputs RGB over the component cables.

Well something is definately screwed. Although it does work at the various res, xbmc is definately at 1280x720 (or something lik that) as it says in the system info, but i get horrible ghosting on everything.

Component via PAL is fine using it tho, its just NTSC HD modes that i get ghosting. I think it just doesnt do progressive scan.

I'll spend £30 and get an official cable.