Will this work

[dipset420]

Originally Posted by Shin-Ra

I don't think you want to be using the 360 as a DVD player anyway, the picture quality is downright poor as I found trying to watch The Aviator via both Component and VGA.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...2088534,00.asp

well i think the xbox 360 is great for a dvd player. i have had 4 different dvd players and my 360 had the best PQ.

would any of you recommend a dvd upconverter until i get a blu-ray player. i know it probbly wont have HD PQ but as long as it would at least look like a dvd and not like a vhs i would be happy

[powerSURG]

Originally Posted by dipset420

...would any of you recommend a dvd upconverter until i get a blu-ray player. i know it probbly wont have HD PQ but as long as it would at least look like a dvd and not like a vhs i would be happy

Most Definitely! They are cheap and help. Plus Standard Def just doesn't cut it anymore. Upconverters do put out HD (720p/1080i). However, depending on which one you buy, it will pause every once in a while to buffer.

edit: I forgot to mention, upconverters are nice, but make no mistake... Blu Ray blows it away imho.

[PBJblu-ray alltheway]

I was reading the back of an XBOX 360 game at my friends house last night and it said it supported 720p / 1080i / 1080p. Can the XBOX 360 display 1080p for games? And if not, why would they put this on the game package?

[powerSURG]

Originally Posted by PBJblu-ray alltheway

I was reading the back of an XBOX 360 game at my friends house last night and it said it supported 720p / 1080i / 1080p. Can the XBOX 360 display 1080p for games? And if not, why would they put this on the game package?

Well some televisions (few) can accept 1080p via Component cables. But this is not mainstream. True 1080p is via HDMI which is pretty much industry standard now and as we all know, the 360 does not have HDMI... yet. So, no matter what the box says, it's not truely 1080p. They put it on the box because it's M$

[Ascended_Saiyan]

Originally Posted by PBJblu-ray alltheway

I was reading the back of an XBOX 360 game at my friends house last night and it said it supported 720p / 1080i / 1080p. Can the XBOX 360 display 1080p for games? And if not, why would they put this on the game package?

It seems the 360 just upscales to 1080p. It doesn't appear to be able to have native 1080p games.

On a side note, my TV said 1080p when I was watching a DVD on it. It is a bad idea though. My ISF tech said it is completely inaccurate for upscaling DVDs.

[BLu-Balls]

The 360 Sucks balls for a DVD player. Yes I still have one. No I am not a PS3 Fanbois.

But the PS3 does rock!!!

[DavePS3]

Too much confusion. Go to the X-Box website and contact tech support either by phone or e-mail. That's what I did.

[dipset420]

Originally Posted by powerSURG

Most Definitely! They are cheap and help. Plus Standard Def just doesn't cut it anymore. Upconverters do put out HD (720p/1080i). However, depending on which one you buy, it will pause every once in a while to buffer.

edit: I forgot to mention, upconverters are nice, but make no mistake... Blu Ray blows it away imho.

haha i know nothing compares to blu-ray. last week when i went into best buy to get my new tv i made them hook up the samsung bd-p1000 and they put in superman returns and because my tv the jvc 1080p 56FN97 uses a different type of display than dlp and lcd the PQ was amazing there was no grain or anything like that which i saw when the same player and movie was hooked up to a samsung

but thats why i have to wait a few weeks to get my blu-ray player because i just spent almost 25 hundred. so i need to pay a lot of that off so i wont have interest build up and then i will get my player