samsung vga or component??

johnno · 5 Mar 2007 at 17:23

hi there people i have had a samsung LE32R73BD 32" for about a month now and i really liking it. i have had my 360 running through component because the colours are so vibrant. ive tried over vga ad the colours seem a lot more washed out but a lot better picture if ou get what i mean. i was just wondering if there was a way of changing the colours over vga. and was just wondering what everyone else is running thier 360's through on this panel.

Ace of Spades · 5 Mar 2007 at 17:36

Tried using the game mode? thats what i have my component running on

on the remote
menu
set up >> game mode

JUMPURS · 5 Mar 2007 at 17:52

Peronsally i preffer the VGA, but it needs to be an MS VGA cable, I had a joytech and it was very washed out.

Renatukasza · 5 Mar 2007 at 17:57

I prefer VGA also, pic is a lot smoother but the color is slightly duller

Kreeeee · 5 Mar 2007 at 18:02

Unless the samsung has DTV mode via VGA always go with component. The colours via a PC VGA port on a TV are horrendous compared to a true DTV VGA enabled port.

Nismo · 5 Mar 2007 at 18:09

VGA is better than component for me on my Samsung LCD.

Kreeeee · 5 Mar 2007 at 18:18

Teletraan-82 said:
VGA is better than component for me on my Samsung LCD.

I couldn't stand VGA on my LE32R74 but on my LG37LC3R it looks superb once in DTV mode.

Nismo · 5 Mar 2007 at 19:13

Don't think mine has any fancy DTV thing, and its fine to me. I recently hooked component back up to see if I should go back to that, but everything looked much rougher.

Shador · 5 Mar 2007 at 19:17

VGA on my samsung and LG. But mostly have my xbox on my sammy because the VGA is superb...get the offical MS VGA cable and there shouldnt be any problems.....but the menu allows you to pump settings up to horrendous levels anyway....including the colour as well!

JUMPURS · 5 Mar 2007 at 19:22

Teletraan-82 said:
Don't think mine has any fancy DTV thing, and its fine to me. I recently hooked component back up to see if I should go back to that, but everything looked much rougher.

Yeap thats why i ended up getting an MS VGA cable, it was almost too sharp on component. I found it a real struggle playing the GoW level in the imulsion mines

Kreeeee · 5 Mar 2007 at 19:28

Teletraan-82 said:
Don't think mine has any fancy DTV thing

It's nothing fancy, it's basically treating the VGA input as a component connection as the 360 does not use VGA spec colour properties. A large number of TVs will detect the format of the input and adjust it automatically (480i/p, 720p and 1080i/p are usually automatically adjusted to DTV mode).

Shador said:
including the colour as well!

That made it vibrant but not true to the colours it should be showing.

AWPC · 5 Mar 2007 at 20:11

I have a 40" Samsung with DTV and the 360 looks amazing on MS VGA plus you can adjust the picture alouhg even on default GOW looks great if you set Vibrant in the GOW options menu. MS Component has a ghost image around all text plus the colour looks much worse to me.

ScarySquirrel · 5 Mar 2007 at 20:41

I use VGA because I have my VM STB hooked up bia component, i liked the colours via component but a bit of playing with the settings via VGA made it just as good for me

skanky · 5 Mar 2007 at 23:30

i use component on my sammy 40", mainly due to having my laptop connected via vga and not wanting to pony up more money for a different connection