Re: OT: What a waste of a day

On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 22:18:15 +0000, The Reverend Bob <see@sig> wrote:

>On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 09:56:11 -0000, "Shak" <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>When someone brought in their 360 they set it to a higher progressive res
>>than 720p. Why didn't you try one of those?
>
>You absolutely sure on that?
>
>I got the premium pack which comes with with the HD AV lead. It's
>plugged into the component sockets of my 2405FPW (1920x1200 resolution
>native) so it's capable of resolutions greater than 1080p. However, my
>360 only offers me up to 1080i as the selected resolution.
>
>All of the cables available from Microsoft only support up to 1080i.
>Now this may be due to bandwidth issues on inherently analogue
>interfaces, but there is no DVI cable available to test whether the
>360 can output at 1080p. All the information I've seen says the 360
>outputs only up to 1080i, with most games actually being 720p upscaled
>to 1080i.

some tv's and projectors will upscale the 720p image.

dunno if it will look any better or not, but 720p is definitely the
best image the 360 can output.
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