Official xbox 360 vga adapter or not?

Cutshaw · 4 Oct 2009 at 20:40

I recently got an 360 and I'm going to be using it with a 19" crt monitor till I get something bigger and better. I had a search and it seems like it will do the job fine. What I wasn't sure about was if I should bother getting the Official VGA adapter cable? Is there a big difference with the much cheaper ones?

I'm a bit clueless about this generation of consoles and never really poke my head out of the PC Games section. Sorry if this seems like a silly question.

Shamikebab · 4 Oct 2009 at 20:43

yes and no. I have the official and Joytech ones and have noticed no difference. However, a lot of people have had poor experiences with 3rd party ones, probably best to play it safe and get the official one.

Cutshaw · 4 Oct 2009 at 20:56

Thanks for the info. I will be needing a male to female adapter, and I don't think you get those with the third party jobs.

Shamikebab · 4 Oct 2009 at 21:08

I did with the Joytech one, not sure if they all do though. They're cheap to pick up separately if you have to though.

Kreeeee · 4 Oct 2009 at 21:47

Well worth getting the official one, the joytech and blaze ones I've seen at various LAN's have been terrible!

Streeteh · 4 Oct 2009 at 22:10

Go official.

orderoftheflame · 5 Oct 2009 at 09:28

Another vote for official. Not had any problem with mine.

Wyrdo · 5 Oct 2009 at 09:36

You should officially get an official one.

~J~ · 5 Oct 2009 at 09:44

Speaking from experience, I purchased a Joytech soon after the console launch as the official ones were so hard to find.

Had about 2 months worth of thinking the picture quality was brilliant until I switched to the official one.

Definately go official! Picture quality is sharp and vibrant and I also think the official one just feels that much better made and more reliable.

HeX · 5 Oct 2009 at 10:09

Pretty much all the 3rd party ones are unshielded cables so you get horrible colour bleed and fuzzy picture.

The official ones look far far better.

Vonsteve · 5 Oct 2009 at 10:13

I'm one of those people who will only ever buy official accessories and leads, No idea why, but it worked out great for this hehe.

Cutshaw · 11 Oct 2009 at 13:09

I went ahead and got the official one. It's looking great.

I'm wondering though. It's 19'' monitor, max res is 1600x1200. What resoultion should I be choosing in the xbox settings ideally?

Dark_Angel · 11 Oct 2009 at 14:17

Kreeeee said:
Well worth getting the official one, the joytech and blaze ones I've seen at various LAN's have been terrible!

Agree.

I have heard quite a few people complaining about the non-offical ones.

Dark_Angel · 11 Oct 2009 at 14:17

Cutshaw said:
I went ahead and got the official one. It's looking great.

I'm wondering though. It's 19'' monitor, max res is 1600x1200. What resoultion should I be choosing in the xbox settings ideally?

non widescreen?

Basically the highest res that will fit the aspect ratio.

Cutshaw · 11 Oct 2009 at 14:26

Dark_Angel said:
non widescreen?

Basically the highest res that will fit the aspect ratio.

Yeah. It's not a widescreen. I've been googling about and came across someone claiming going higher than 1280x720 makes the xbox go into 520 then upscales to 1080, and I didn't really understand what the deal was there or if it was pootalk.

SKILL · 11 Oct 2009 at 15:08

Using the VGA cable you'll be able to select 1600x1200, worked fine for me and couldn't notice the difference when I tried 720P and 1080P on my new monitor

Ascendancy · 11 Oct 2009 at 15:15

You get a male to female adaptor with the official cable, just so you know.