I am playing in HD ?


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Your going to have to excuse me, because i've only just entered the world of HD... I used to have a 28" widescreen CRT TV.

I've just bought myself a 42" LCD TV capable of 1080p.

I've got a VGA cable for the 360, and plugged it into the telly, I selected a resolution of 1920x1080 on the console settings. And when I press info, it tells me it's at 1920x1080@60Hz

But, this is where I get confused, when watching Sky+, the TV info tells me i'm watching at 576i

I was hoping that when playing the 360, it would say 1080p, but it doesn't, it just gives me the resolution.

So does this mean i'm playing Tiger Woods '10 (and other games that are capable) at 1080p ?

Thanks,

Ferret !

EDIT - The reason for not going to a HDMI cable, in the console doesn't have the port, but the TV has 3 !

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Yes you are playing games in 1080p, the reason Sky+ says 576i is because that is the PAL resolution 720x576i that all standard definition tv channels broadcast in (with a few exceptions that use lower resolutions to save bandwidth but they are always anamorphically resized to 576i)

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in the system blade it should list the rez

*Editing this area, didnt notice your in UK*

not all games are capable of 1080, some jsut do 720 and upconvert to whatever ( the 360 will upconvert, but its not native, its just 720 or whatever streched )

you wont see much of a diffrence going from the HD cables on the 360 to HDMI

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Yes you are playing games in 1080p, the reason Sky+ says 576i is because that is the PAL resolution 720x576i that all standard definition tv channels broadcast in (with a few exceptions that use lower resolutions to save bandwidth but they are always anamorphically resized to 576i)

Thank-you very much ! You've answered my question.

And Hell-In-A-Handbasket, do you mean I won't notice a difference going from the VGA cable to a HDMI cable ?

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Thank-you very much ! You've answered my question.

And Hell-In-A-Handbasket, do you mean I won't notice a difference going from the VGA cable to a HDMI cable ?

If you had a 720p panel you might notice a difference on the current dashboard version, but on a 1080p panel you should not (your physical resolution matches the logical resolutions of HDMI and VGA). On the updated dashboard releasing in early August you won't notice a difference in any usage scenario because they will be enabling the additional "computer resolutions" like 1360x768 (this is a common physical resolution on 720p LCD panels) over HDMI.

The difference would come from either the 360's scaler being used (in the case of outputing 1360x768 to a 720p panel with that physical resolution) over VGA versus the display's scaler being used (in the case of outputing 720p over HDMI to a 720p panel with a physical resolution of 1360x768, which would be scaled up). Since the same resolution options will be available as of the next dash update, there will be no difference from that point.

And you are not affected because 1080p panels typically have a physical resolution matching their "broadcast resolution."

You probably also wouldn't notice a difference using component cables actually. Lots of TVs support 1080p over component (mine does, even though it's a 720p panel). However, using component will disable some DVD playback features (when you use VGA or HDMI, the system upscales DVDs, when you use component, it outputs a 480p signal, or whatever your UK equivalent is).

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HD is anything over 1280X720 i believe, so you're fine. Your TV simply adjusts to the resolution of the video feed or source, your Sky TV is sent in a lower resolution, is all. Here ATT and Comcast make you pay an extra ten bucks a month for "HD", until you do you get it in standard resolution. It doesn't change the fact the 360 is HD.

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Most games are native to 720P, so if you play a game like Halo 3 or anything, you won't notice a resolution difference on 1080 versus 720.

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1080p just means "1920x1080" resolution, likewise 720p just means "1280x720". If your TV says "1920x1080" instead of just "1080p", it's nothing to worry about it, it's the same thing.

I use my monitor, which is capable of 1920x1200, which is actually higher than 1080p so it's a bit like HD++.

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yeah what ruran said, this generation so far most games are 720 native so you're better off setting your console and TV to that resolution.

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you might want to set the 360 to 720 as most games are 720 native and vlocked at 720 but not at 1080 (if you have it try resi 5 for a good example, there are more torn frames than zombies at 1080p)

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you might want to set the 360 to 720 as most games are 720 native and vlocked at 720 but not at 1080 (if you have it try resi 5 for a good example, there are more torn frames than zombies at 1080p)

I had Res Evil 5, but sold it a few weeks back - I couldn't get on with it.

Don't suppose you got any other games that do it ?

And thanks to everybody for your input, greatly appreciated.

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you will not notice a difference from VGA-HDMI, VGA even though its analog has enough capability to display more then 1080

i was using VGA, only reason i dumped my VGA 360 cables was HDMI does Video/Sound through a single cable/connection where VGA will not

my tv is a Sony 60a3000 60' 1080p native

Thank-you very much ! You've answered my question.

And Hell-In-A-Handbasket, do you mean I won't notice a difference going from the VGA cable to a HDMI cable ?

no the older ones didn't other then the original Elite's

Older 360's didn't have an HDMI port, I think... :huh:
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