playing on the xbox on a 24 inch monitor

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I'm a first time console gamer. is it possible, will it have any DPI issues?
The monitor I'm going to get is 24 inch HD LED, and it only has DVI, so how am I supposed to get any sound out of it? I only have 2.1 speakers with a 3.5mm jack.

Its the new model xbox 360 4GB. Can it be played on the desk with a keyboard, if not, can you sit at a desk with a controller with the xbox?

Would it be possible to sit further back on a 24 inch screen?

Not sure how it would work as hogging the 50 inch downstairs isn't practical.

thank you.
 
You'd need to get a RCA to 3.5mm converter from a highstreet electronics store to get the audio into the 2.1 speakers.

You can't use a keyboard with the xbox, but you could sit at a desk with the pad i suppose.
 
I use my 24" monitor for my PC and xbox. Perfectly fine. Cant use bigger screens now as I seem to have too much too look at.

Why not get a monitor with hdmi, speakers etc? I got a set of headphones so dont make use of the speakers.
 
I sit at a desk with my 23" LCD it works fine.. you can sit back, but it's not a good idea for online shooters. Since I've gone back to a wired pad it also gives me something to suspend the cable from.
 
Jay1701 said:
can you sit at a desk with a controller with the xbox?
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You can sit upside down doing the splits if you really fancied it! :p

I play on a 24" monitor, optimum distance I'd say is about 2.5/3ft away from the screen (for me atleast - no idea if I'm burning my retinas into oblivion lol) for FPS, and whatever distance for RPG/side scrollers

HDMI connection with an audio jack in the monitor which a headset is plugged into, a fair few wires but it works!
 
I use a Samsung S24A350H 24 inch Widescreen LED monitor.

I connect my 360 via HDMI and along side that I connect an official Xbox 360 RCA Adapter. I then connect a 3.5mm RCA Jack from that adapter to my PC and it's all fine.

The only very slight downside to using a monitor is dithering... If you look really close, on some colors, usually dark ones, (on still screens) you can notice a large amount of flicker. From what I've read it's something to do with upscaling.

I know it's not a monitor specific issue as I've tried 4 different monitors, all different sizes and the exact same thing happens on those to. But you really don't notice it unless you look very close to the screen.

Cheers
 
I was contemplating doing this, however it's just occurred to me that although my monitor (Dell 2408WFP) has a HDMI input, it isn't 1900x1080 but rather 1920x1200.

Has anyone tried this?
 
MikeHiow said:
I was contemplating doing this, however it's just occurred to me that although my monitor (Dell 2408WFP) has a HDMI input, it isn't 1900x1080 but rather 1920x1200.

Has anyone tried this?
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I use my 2407WFP for my PS3 - never noticed any issues, though I think mine might be stretched to fit...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
Can some one using a PC Monitor for there Xbox 360 please try this out for me?

When playing a game and you look really closely to dark colors, can you see the colors have a dithering effect?

If you can't notice it, go to the Xbox dashboard, press the guide button on your controller and around the Xbox Guide menu where it dims the screen, do you notice the dithering effect here aswell?

Cheers
 
Kreeeee said:
Nope, don't get it on my Dell 2312HM via VGA 1080p 1:1 ratio.
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Nothing at all? Not even with the Xbox guide button on the dashboard? It just looks as though it flickers to me... I've tried it on 4 of my other monitors and it does the EXACT same thing on all of them. Even ingame on dark colors to.
 
Do you have your colour space set correctly?

I get banding if I do something stupid like setting the colour space to anything other than standard when on a PC Monitor.
 
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What is the 'correct' color space to have set in the Xbox settings? But yeah I've tried every color space setting, one makes it better than all of the others in terms of flicker on the darker, still colors.

It's mainly stuff like pause screens it does it on and only noticeable when looking really close, when the games in motion you really don't notice it at all.

And as said I've tried it on 4 different monitors and I get the same affect no matter what.
 
Ah that's not banding. I used to get that on my old monitor. Only setting the 360 to 1080p and having a monitor that is natively 1080p stops it for me. It's like an inteference pattern.
 
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