Re: Watching media PC to TV

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:26:36 +0000, Tony Houghton <h@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:25:58 +0000, Tony Houghton <h@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

My XBox is actually hooked up to a Dell 20" 16:10 monitor which
happens to have composite and S-Video inputs. It's great as a
monitor, but I suppose it's possible they fitted really lousy
circuitry on the TV inputs.

They did, the SD scaler is pants. I use a 24" Dell 2405fpw, and
whether over composite or component an SD signal looks pretty ropy
[snip]

I don't just get dodgy scaling with my XBox though. The colours look
washed out and there's a lot of noise on the signal, especially
noticeable on plain black backgrounds seeing as it displays them as
dark grey instead.

That's definitely wrong. Xboxes generally have very good output.

I plugged a VCR into the monitor once and don't remember thinking it
looked particularly awful. I suppose I should try a DVD player some
time.

Have you tried the xbox on any other telly-like objects?

Cheers - Jaimie
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