xbox 360 demo pods

da_mic_1530 · 21 Apr 2006 at 18:32

just used a 360 demo pod for the 1st time ever 2day. played topspin2 which i already have. MY god the picture was bad, whats wrong with these consoles or TV's, the jaggies were huge and it looked worse than on my poo tv at home.

People without 360's, dont judge a 360 on these demo pods :eek:

Captain-Fungi · 21 Apr 2006 at 18:43

da_mic_1530 said:
just used a 360 demo pod for the 1st time ever 2day. played topspin2 which i already have. MY god the picture was bad, whats wrong with these consoles or TV's, the jaggies were huge and it looked worse than on my poo tv at home.

People without 360's, dont judge a 360 on these demo pods

Thats weird as the pod that I saw (before the 360 was released) was amazing. IIRC it was showing COD2, maybe it was just a naff TV/Cable?

On that note I got a nice Samsung LCD TV today for my 360.

Boogle · 21 Apr 2006 at 18:51

Its really strange, I've found the pods a little hit/miss. Maybe someone is going round setting them to 480p?

gord · 21 Apr 2006 at 18:57

Boogle said:
Its really strange, I've found the pods a little hit/miss. Maybe someone is going round setting them to 480p?

Sony representatives?

Nismo · 21 Apr 2006 at 18:57

Boogle said:
Its really strange, I've found the pods a little hit/miss. Maybe someone is going round setting them to 480p?

Thats what I always assume when folks say the pods look terrible.

They must be using a component connection in the pods (dosnt make sense to use anything else), so really theres very little regarding the image quality that can be mucked around with, apart from colour setup on the TV or selecting either 480p, 720p or 1080i on the 360.

Captain-Fungi · 21 Apr 2006 at 19:02

Nismo said:
Thats what I always assume when folks say the pods look terrible.

They must be using a component connection in the pods (dosnt make sense to use anything else), so really theres very little regarding the image quality that can be mucked around with, apart from colour setup on the TV or selecting either 480p, 720p or 1080i on the 360.

I have found that the VGA connection into my TV gives the best picture quality, component looked rubbish.

What does VGA output at 480/720/1080i?

Anders0n · 21 Apr 2006 at 19:05

Perhaps the switch on the side of the cable is at the wrong setting. I believe this changes it to a composite connection when using the component cable.

Nismo · 21 Apr 2006 at 19:09

Captain-Fungi said:
I have found that the VGA connection into my TV gives the best picture quality, component looked rubbish.

Thats not what I meant, VGA does indeed give a 'sharper' image, but from my own experience it makes the colours look washed out.

My point was that the most common sense connection for use in a demo pod would be component, and my guess is that MS would use this.

TUNA FISH · 21 Apr 2006 at 19:24

All the major game shops in Bristol have demo pods which look terrible, like there running with composite or in 480p, the same person probably did all the ones in the area. I tried to get into the display settings but of it was locked, there not a very good advert for the console.

da_mic_1530 · 21 Apr 2006 at 19:25

i assume 480p is SD, if this is so then my TV at home looked better than the demo pod, honestly i wish id got a picture

NokkonWud · 21 Apr 2006 at 20:26

I asked someone around my area why his picture looked so much better on his pod than anywhere else, he said it was set up wrong and he changed it.

chaparral · 21 Apr 2006 at 20:45

They could be using the xbox core which don't come with a component cable cable..

Can any of you see if it is a component cable or scart that goes into the back of the screen..Or can you not see the back of the screen on the pods?

We do not have any pods over here in guernsey of what i know of..One of the shops just use there 42" philps plasma for there demo.

NokkonWud · 21 Apr 2006 at 20:47

chaparral said:
They could be using the xbox core which don't come with a component cable cable..

Can any of you see if it is a component cable or scart that goes into the back of the screen..Or can you not see the back of the screen on the pods?

We do not have any pods over here in guernsey of what i know of..One of the shops just use a 42" philps LCD for there's.

You can't see the pack of the screen. My guess it to stop you putting your fingers behind it and pulling like hell until you have a new TV.

chaparral · 21 Apr 2006 at 20:50

NokkonWud said:
You can't see the pack of the screen. My guess it to stop you putting your fingers behind it and pulling like hell until you have a new TV.

Then tip (or kick) the pod over on it side when no ones looking

.Maybe it give a better picture that way as well.

Boogle · 22 Apr 2006 at 11:17

chaparral said:
They could be using the xbox core which don't come with a component cable cable.

They have to use Premiums because of the HD. They install some special software to it (and possibly a special firmware too?).

Phil99 · 22 Apr 2006 at 11:37

I played on NFS:MW on one a while back and didn't really notice any aliasing or anything wrong - looked pretty damn good to me.