Xbox 360 and my CRT ?

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Hello,

I have got a Xbox 360 Premium which is connected to my 28" TV in the living room with the advanced av cable.

In my bedroom i have a Iiyama Vision Mater Pro 454 19".

If i was to buy the Official XBox 360 VGA AV Cable for £17.99 would i beable to connect my 360 to the Iiyama ?

I run the monitor at 1280x1024 @ 85Hz in Windows XP. What res and refresh would the Xbox 360 run at ?

Thanks Ben

/EDIT

Where would i get my sound from if its connected to my PC monitor ?
 
You can, and it would run at 1280x1024. Some games don't like non-HD resolutions though. My monitor can scale with the correct aspect, but some like to stretch any input to fill the screen which results in warping.

Sound will be up to you - I run it through my PC, but if you have an amp handy that would be the best option by far.
 
I've got my 360 hooked up to a IIyama 19 incher as well and I don't really notice its running at 60 hrtz to be honest. It's very different from running a monitor at 60 hrtz in Windows.
 
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lemm said:
Ive got my 360 hooked up to a IIyama 19 incher as well and I don't really notice its running at 60 hrtz to be honest. It's very different from running a monitor in 60 hrtz in Windows.

This is true.
 
dirtydog said:
Hmm I've heard other people say the same, but why is that? 60Hz is 60Hz at the end of the day.

It's not though, 60Hz on a TFT is not like 60Hz on a PC CRT. Who's to say the way a console. You use 60Hz on games on a regular TV (which is also CRT).
 
NokkonWud said:
It's not though, 60Hz on a TFT is not like 60Hz on a PC CRT. Who's to say the way a console. You use 60Hz on games on a regular TV (which is also CRT).

60Hz on three different screen types is different.. yes, I can accept that, because it makes sense.

60Hz from a PC, and from a console, on the same screen is going to be the same isn't it - surely? If not I'd be interested why.
 
dirtydog said:
60Hz from a PC, and from a console, on the same screen is going to be the same isn't it - surely? If not I'd be interested why.

You just dont notice it the same. I never noticed 60hz when I was playing games on the pc even, only when in windows.
 
lemm said:
I've got my 360 hooked up to a IIyama 19 incher as well and I don't really notice its running at 60 hrtz to be honest. It's very different from running a monitor at 60 hrtz in Windows.

Very true and im not sure why , But Ive noticed this as well ..even after extended sessions the 60hz monitor refresh doesnt bother me w/ 360.
 
BEN_UK said:
Hello,

I have got a Xbox 360 Premium which is connected to my 28" TV in the living room with the advanced av cable.

In my bedroom i have a Iiyama Vision Mater Pro 454 19".

If i was to buy the Official XBox 360 VGA AV Cable for £17.99 would i beable to connect my 360 to the Iiyama ?

I run the monitor at 1280x1024 @ 85Hz in Windows XP. What res and refresh would the Xbox 360 run at ?

Thanks Ben

/EDIT

Where would i get my sound from if its connected to my PC monitor ?

Before I bought a widescreen TFT, I used to use my 360 on an IIyama CRT, pick the highest resolution in the dashboard and just use the CRT's onscreen controls to shrink the picture vertically until it no longer looks stretched, you'll have black bars top and bottom but in PGR3 (for example) if you pick 1024 x 768 you get them regardless. The cable will have an optical out and 2 phono plugs, plug them into an amp or get a phone to mini-jack adaptor and whack it through your line in on your soundcard.
 
It is stuck at 60Hz, but you know what? It feels more like 100Hz, it is totally not like playing a PC Game at 60Hz that 'feels' slow, choppy or unresponsive. Its smooth as a baby's bum, before I got my 26" HDTV I had my Xbox360 hooked up to a 22" CRT and it really was outstanding to look at, a really crisp clean picture and really smooth - You honestly could not tell it was 60Hz.
 
It's not that PC games at 60Hz feel slow or choppy, it's that the screen flickers. While it might not subjectively be noticeable when running a console on a CRT, your eyes will notice even if you don't, because 60Hz on a CRT is 60Hz on a CRT, period.
 
dirtydog said:
It's not that PC games at 60Hz feel slow or choppy, it's that the screen flickers. While it might not subjectively be noticeable when running a console on a CRT, your eyes will notice even if you don't, because 60Hz on a CRT is 60Hz on a CRT, period.
I can appriciate that it is still 60Hz it just doesn't feel like its 60Hz, its hard to explain you need to try it to see what I mean.
 
I tried my 360 on my Iiyama 454 and I didn't like it. The picture was soft and it wasn't anti-aliased.
 
I find it fine through my 19"crt the 60hz don't really bother me in racing you don't notice it, i only really notice it if am messing in the console settings etc, i thought the anti-aliased made no difference even on a hdtv, i thought it didn't have aa applied in these first lot of games out ?
 
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