VGA cables for 360

sanofi · 17 Aug 2006 at 11:51

hairyhen said:
Hope this isn;t too late, but I found a couple of articles which deals with some of the original questions posted in this thread, and also confirms what I said about 1280x1024 being the 'correct' resolution when using a 1680x1050 monitor.

http://uk.gear.ign.com/articles/703/703073p1.html

http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2005/11/17/1869

I'm afraid I can't be of further help to you, other than to say double check the setting on the monitor that deals with aspect ratios e.g my Eizo S2110W has a 'Screen Size' setting that you can switch manually between 'Fullscreen', 'Enlarged', and 'Normal'.

Does anyone know what theme is used by the user in the second link?

sanofi · 17 Aug 2006 at 13:50

It looks like my question may have been asnswered of at the H:

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1088818

Kainz · 17 Aug 2006 at 18:02

sanofi said:
Any chance you could take a pic of the screen in game or on the dash so I can compare?

Hmm pants. I sold the joytech cable to a mate of mine who himself wanted to compare it to his ms vga one lol

sanofi · 17 Aug 2006 at 18:11

Kainz said:
Hmm pants. I sold the joytech cable to a mate of mine who himself wanted to compare it to his ms vga one lol

Not a comparison shot of the joytech VGA cable in use but just an ingame shot of your 360 running on your monitor.

Kainz · 17 Aug 2006 at 22:04

Hope this will do for now. My cam batteries just died before I could get anymore shots.
http://www.zen97774.zen.co.uk/tdu/

sanofi · 17 Aug 2006 at 22:16

Kainz said:
Hope this will do for now. My cam batteries just died before I could get anymore shots.
http://www.zen97774.zen.co.uk/tdu/

Thanks, those are good looking colours and with little to no jaggies in that PGR3 shot and compared to what PGR looks like on my monitor its much better.

It must be a failing in my monitor itself.

hairyhen · 17 Aug 2006 at 23:20

Well here are my efforts for comparison:

dash#1

dash#2

pgr3#1

pgr3#2

pgr3#3

All photos were taken with a Sony DSC-P200 7.2mp at highest settings. To view the full res shots (over 2mb in size), remove the word 'copy' from the url.

sanofi · 18 Aug 2006 at 00:22

hairyhen said:
Well here are my efforts for comparison:

dash#1

dash#2

pgr3#1

pgr3#2

pgr3#3

All photos were taken with a Sony DSC-P200 7.2mp at highest settings. To view the full res shots (over 2mb in size), remove the word 'copy' from the url.

Thanks hairy, what theme is it your using there?

I think we need someone else with the same monitor as me to try it out.

hairyhen · 18 Aug 2006 at 11:17

Hi,

Its a customised 'carbon trim' with the 'smoke' dashboard effect.

sanofi · 18 Aug 2006 at 23:02

Anyone using this monitor with their 360? -> Acer AL1916WS 19"

If so, hows the picture quality?

sanofi · 19 Aug 2006 at 01:45

A new update in this saga, after hooking up the 360 to my old 17" CRT, running 1280x1024, there are noticeably fewer jaggies and the colour is excellent in comparison to the TFT.

suarve · 23 Sep 2006 at 10:59

sanofi said:
Anyone using this monitor with their 360? -> Acer AL1916WS 19"

If so, hows the picture quality?

digisatman · 2 Jan 2007 at 19:56

sanofi said:
Couple of screenies from NBA 2K6:

that looks pretty bad tbh, but i guess taking pics with the screen cover still on?

Any1 else have any pics of the 360 on their hanns g 19" wide?

cheers

Margaret · 2 Jan 2007 at 19:59

Looks like screen cover yeah, either that or it's not too good a screen :eek:

Then again likely just because it's a camera pic?