xbox hd problems

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right guys having a few um issues with the 360 on the bedroom lcd, (wifes stole the living room telly for soaps and tosh)


basically living room telly is fine with the standard cable no probs


bedroom telly is a different beast(phillips 23pf9945/12)


supports 720 progressive and has only d sub inputs along with scart and svideo

now i'm a bit of a home entertainment n00b whats the best way to connect the 360 to this badboy? also getting really bad picture quality when i plug the stock cable in(not bought an hd pc type plug cable for it yet and was running in non hd mode but the pictures crap

any tips guys?

mods if this needs moved to home entertainment please move as appropriate but its only use is for the 360 so i thought more at home here :)
 
You will always get a crap picture with stock composite. If there are no component ports on the TV you will need the Xbox360 VGA cable.
 
The 360 doesnt output 720p via D-sub (VGA) at least if you want to be picky, that would be via Component, which your TV does not have, right?

You are going to need the MS or Joytech VGA cable for your 360 methinks.

Other than that you are stuck with composite, on a normal CRT that is shocking, I dread to think what it's like on an LCD.
 
bloody rotten on the lcd tbh


so guys you reckon a vga cable will cure all my problems and give me some stonking HD action ?
 
but which vga cable ??????


was in teco about an hour ago and they didnt have one(hence the messing around with the composite crap ( mucho disapointed and no every little does not indeed help in this case)


so its a trip to a certain game selling shop tommorow to purchase one, although i've noticed comet do the monster xbox vga cable


spec me a xbox vga cable guys :)
 
Ignore my post above, just get the Official Xbox 360 VGA cable, no other. After looking at the specs for your TV, it appears it isn't a proper HDTV in terms of support for 720p / 1080i etc, but it does have PC monitor support and a max resolution of 1280x768, so should support the 360 fine in 4:3 mode.

It wont support comonent through the VGA port no, as it's not a HDTV (well, in the same way a normal 5:4 TFT PC monitor isn't a HDTV anyway), and the spec sheet doesn't say it does either.

The TV does support 1280x1024, but as it's a 4:3 TV and not a 5:4 PC monitor, it's going to look correct on 1280x768 as that's a 4:3 ratio.
 
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