I can't really tell a difference in the Xbox 360 with High Def

[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

I have an x-box 360 that i keep at school most of the time, and just use it on my 32 inch non-hd tv. It still looks pretty **** good. I am home now, and hooked it up to my parent's 60 inch LCD HDTV, and honestly it looks a tiny bit better, but nothing insane. I was even playing gears of war on it, and could hardly notice any difference, except it looked more colorful on HDTV. It is definately set up right, i have the Xbox running in 720p, and the little cord has the swith moved over to HD. Any ideas? I heard gears of war looks nuts in high definition. I think it looks good, but i can hardly tell a difference with it running in HD.

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[TChrismen 10+ year member]

Do you have the right cables hooked up. You should have three separete cables for video (red, blue, green) instead of just s-video or a single yellow cable. Normally you have to buy it because they don't give them with the system.

 

[yacob.naif 10+ year member]

this is true

 

[GrnEydDvl 10+ year member]

1080i will give you more resolution. Try switching it to 1080i on the 360.

Gears of War looks insane on my 50 inch plasma.

 

[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

Do you have the right cables hooked up. You should have three separete cables for video (red, blue, green) instead of just s-video or a single yellow cable. Normally you have to buy it because they don't give them with the system.

with the xbox, it actually comes with components, but yes, I have it hooked up using the component (RGB) wires. It is definately running in HD because when you switch the button on the wire to "HD Signal", it doesn't work unless you are actually recieving an HD signal.

 

[yacob.naif 10+ year member]

maybe you were just expecting too much??

 

[T3mpest 10+ year member]

I noticed a pretty big jump on my 360 when I went to hd. I'd say it's obvious, everything is just alot more crisp and refined. Maybe you just have bad eyes? Some people can't hear the difference between seas and sony's, so maybe tv's are the same way....

 

[95ZJ 10+ year member]

I can definitely tell a difference from my old 27" Admiral CRT, when playing on my friends 42" XBR.

 

[Suomi 10+ year member]

1080i will give you more resolution. Try switching it to 1080i on the 360.
Gears of War looks insane on my 50 inch plasma.

If the TV is a 720P native set, then 1080i will be worse. 720P=60 fps, while 1080i=only 30 fps. Being that the TV in question is an LCD, it is probably 720P or 768P (runs a 720P signal natively anyways). Of course it could be a newer 1080P set, in which case I'd try the 360 on both 720P and 1080i to see which looks better. Is your plasma not a 720P set?

My friend was running his 360 on 480i without knowing it, and he was amazed by the picture once he saw it actually run at 720P.

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

Even on my 37" LCD HDTV, I can tell a HUGE difference from setting it in 480p to 1080i.

Hell even from 480p to 720p on the DASHBOARD screen I can tell a difference.

I played half the campaign in GoW on 480p... then switched it to 1080i and it looked beautiful.

nG

 

[GrnEydDvl 10+ year member]

If the TV is a 720P native set, then 1080i will be worse. 720P=60 fps, while 1080i=only 30 fps. Being that the TV in question is an LCD, it is probably 720P or 768P (runs a 720P signal natively anyways). Of course it could be a newer 1080P set, in which case I'd try the 360 on both 720P and 1080i to see which looks better. Is your plasma not a 720P set?
My friend was running his 360 on 480i without knowing it, and he was amazed by the picture once he saw it actually run at 720P.

My plasma does 1080i and 720p. I prefer the crisper 1080i to the progressive 720 lines.

 

[req 5,000+ posts]

quite frankly, if you cant tell the difference then you must be close to blind to begin with //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif