Official Xbox 360 VGA cable worth it?

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I will be buying a VGA cable soon, and I have read that the official Microsoft one gives better picture quality. Is this true or should I just go for a cheaper one such as Joytech?

Another question, does the official VGA cable include an optical cable for 5.1 sound?
 
Johanson said:
I will be buying a VGA cable soon, and I have read that the official Microsoft one gives better picture quality. Is this true or should I just go for a cheaper one such as Joytech?
yes, definately go for the microsoft one :)

Another question, does the official VGA cable include an optical cable for 5.1 sound?
nope but the one that i bought was only £5
 
Johanson said:
I have found an optical cable for £4, so that's £22 in total compared to the £10 Joytech. What exactly would be the difference between them?

the overall picture quality is much better imo
 
I originally bought a MadCatz VGA cable and it's cheap knock-off crap. Quality was terrible. The whole image was ghosted across the screen.

The official one is much better. It's still not giving a perfect picture, but that's probably interference from some of my other equipment.
 
Psyk said:
I originally bought a MadCatz VGA cable and it's cheap knock-off crap. Quality was terrible. The whole image was ghosted across the screen.

The official one is much better. It's still not giving a perfect picture, but that's probably interference from some of my other equipment.
That's due to it not using VGA colour formats. You're putting a component colour format through the cable (more compressed range) so you will see inteference as the VGA fills in data that isn't there, created due to inteference that you normally wouldn't see. A TV with component VGA will get rid of this issue.
 
Kreeeee said:
That's due to it not using VGA colour formats. You're putting a component colour format through the cable (more compressed range) so you will see inteference as the VGA fills in data that isn't there, created due to inteference that you normally wouldn't see. A TV with component VGA will get rid of this issue.
Cool, that explains that one. Shame I can't afford to buy a new TV :p
 
Psyk said:
Cool, that explains that one. Shame I can't afford to buy a new TV :p
I had the same issue with both my monitors on an isolated power supply. It drove me nuts. I had the same issue with my TV until I enabled DTV mode and did a lot of research. It's an annoying and unnecessary problem caused by MS being lazy.

Edit: Come play on mine :p
 
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