Got the 360 Elite and it rocks!!! - Blu-ray Forum

Blu Tiger · 05-01-2007, 03:11 PM

Just wanted to let people know that I'm glad I did. True, it didn't come with a transfer cable, but I can wait a couple of days until they send it to me (if you only buy the HDD, then the transfer cable comes with it, otherwise MS will send it to you). Anywho, on to the reason why I'm happy I bought it: picture quality. I tested it on my 50" Pioneer Elite 1080p monitor. I used two copies of NBA: Street Homecourt (which is one of the few 360 games that outputs natively in 1080p). I put one copy in my old 360 that was hooked up via component and one copy in the Elite that was hooked up via HDMI and set to 1080p. I went to the same level in both games and then I switched back and forth between inputs so I could compare them. The difference to me was immediate. Everything was sharper and the image looked crisper on the Elite. The edge around character models on my old 360 looked slightly blurrier. I was not expecting as big a difference as I saw. To me, PQ is everything so this totally justified my purchase.

jermwhl · 05-01-2007, 03:23 PM

cool! how well does it play HD-DVD's?

sorry...couldn't resist!

dgator783 · 05-01-2007, 03:36 PM

the 360 elite is still garbage in my eyes.....just copying Sony....Sony knew how much HDMI rocked the house and the PS3 allows you switch out the hard drive for a bigger one if u feel the need....PS3 is the elite system!

Iceman_II · 05-01-2007, 03:39 PM

Interesting that you actually saw a difference... every review I have read says that the difference in PQ was negligable.

Then again, maybe its a placebo effect, we humans see pretty much what we want or expect to see.

Blu Tiger · 05-01-2007, 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Iceman_II

Interesting that you actually saw a difference... every review I have read says that the difference in PQ was negligable.

Then again, maybe its a placebo effect, we humans see pretty much what we want or expect to see.

No way. There was definitely a difference. Even my girlfriend could tell, and she usually can't tell the difference between HD and non-HD. Maybe other people that tested it didn't use a big enough monitor, or maybe it's just because I have a Pioneer Elite. They also might not have used a game that outputs natively in 1080p. There are only two that I know of so far: NBA Street: Homecourt and Virtua Tennis 3.

DV92Camaro · 05-01-2007, 04:06 PM

I think the only major difference that you see with the Elite is with games "natively" outputting 1080p.

Have you tried it with any other games kiddtigger that are not 1080p?

Technopath · 05-01-2007, 05:21 PM

I work in the Broadcasting Audio/Visual industry and the jump from Component to HDMI on the Xbox 360 is definatly noticeable. The crispness is off the charts. Not a placebo effect at all. The edge that some PS3 games had, is no more. The truth be told...

Techno out!

Blu Tiger · 05-01-2007, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by jermwhl

cool! how well does it play HD-DVD's?

sorry...couldn't resist!

I don't know. I don't think I'm going to buy the HD-DVD add-on (even though I'm so tempted because the Heroes TV series is going to be HD-DVD only). I don't want to prolong the format war. I love my PS3 and I LOVE blu-ray. Two movie formats is stupid and it only hurts consumers. I'll probably always buy every videogame system out because there is a market for more than one game system, but there can be only one movie format and it's blu baby!

scook · 05-01-2007, 03:43 PM

It does piss me off that Heroes is not on Blu

Yesterdays Episode........SOOOOOOOOOO SIAC

-Cook

Camulus · 05-01-2007, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by scook

It does piss me off that Heroes is not on Blu

Yesterdays Episode........SOOOOOOOOOO SIAC

-Cook

I know this is of topic but, that ep was amazing. Peter and Hiro kicked arse. I might buy the DVD set and make hi-quality mp4 to play on my PS3. Damn Universal

bykes · 05-01-2007, 03:31 PM

Out side of an HDMI port whats the reason for getting an Elite? Did they build the wireless in? Im not a fanboy, just curious.

Amon37 · 05-01-2007, 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by bykes

Out side of an HDMI port whats the reason for getting an Elite? Did they build the wireless in? Im not a fanboy, just curious.

120GB HDD and black in color.

scook · 05-01-2007, 03:40 PM

Couldnt resist......... I couldn't believe there was only two replies, sorry bro but you wasted 500 bux, I hope you have a PS3 as well or I guess I don't see the logic unless you like video games that are exclusive for XBOX. Spiderman 3 on PS3 is going to kick Xbox where it hurts. I don't come to Blu-Ray.com to read about a game system that has nothing to do with Bluray.

Sorry, no intent to offend but I hate XBOX with the passion

Once again letting a little work anger out on Xbox

-Cook

TBoneCapone · 05-01-2007, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by scook

Couldnt resist......... I couldn't believe there was only two replies, sorry bro but you wasted 500 bux, I hope you have a PS3 as well or I guess I don't see the logic unless you like video games that are exclusive for XBOX. Spiderman 3 on PS3 is going to kick Xbox where it hurts. I don't come to Blu-Ray.com to read about a game system that has nothing to do with Bluray.

Sorry, no intent to offend but I hate XBOX with the passion

Once again letting a little work anger out on Xbox

-Cook

Wow no intent to offend yet you just told someone they threw 500 bucks away. Look I am a PS3 and XBOX guy, and yes you can be both. I am happy you like your purchase. I look foward to upgrading mine as well. Gears of War and Halo are both enough for me to want a game system that plays them.

MasterXeus · 05-01-2007, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by TBoneCapone

Wow no intent to offend yet you just told someone they threw 500 bucks away. Look I am a PS3 and XBOX guy, and yes you can be both. I am happy you like your purchase. I look foward to upgrading mine as well. Gears of War and Halo are both enough for me to want a game system that plays them.

I agree you can be a PS3 and Xbox guy. Kiddtigger I'm glad you're happy with the Elite. I'm not going to upgrade any time soon, my TV only supports up to 1080i so there's really no point to upgrading to the Elite, I might buy the 120 GB Harddrive once the price drops or I find a good deal on Ebay.

dgator783 · 05-01-2007, 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by TBoneCapone

Wow no intent to offend yet you just told someone they threw 500 bucks away. Look I am a PS3 and XBOX guy, and yes you can be both. I am happy you like your purchase. I look foward to upgrading mine as well. Gears of War and Halo are both enough for me to want a game system that plays them.

Halo is horrible now...the first one rocked and I thought the second was garbage...adn the 3rd one will prolly be junk as well.....i admit I was both a xbox and PS2 owner but I got sooooo bored of the xbox esp after I beat Doom3 for it (the only reason I bought it in the first place....lol....dont like playing FPS on the computer)...I will never buy a 360 because of that....the PS3 is so much more powerful in every shape and form and could support more high end games in the future over the 360 as the Xbox did over the PS2.....case in point, long live SONY......and BLU RAY!

TBoneCapone · 05-01-2007, 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by dgator783

Halo is horrible now...the first one rocked and I thought the second was garbage...adn the 3rd one will prolly be junk as well.....i admit I was both a xbox and PS2 owner but I got sooooo bored of the xbox esp after I beat Doom3 for it (the only reason I bought it in the first place....lol....dont like playing FPS on the computer)...I will never buy a 360 because of that....the PS3 is so much more powerful in every shape and form and could support more high end games in the future over the 360 as the Xbox did over the PS2.....case in point, long live SONY......and BLU RAY!

Again with the bashing? I am glad you thought Halo was horrible. I am not trying to sell you a system, but rather to give kudo's to a guy that is happy for his purchase. Long live blu-ray I agree......the rest, why bother?

scook · 05-01-2007, 07:32 PM

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Originally Posted by TBoneCapone

Wow no intent to offend yet you just told someone they threw 500 bucks away. Look I am a PS3 and XBOX guy, and yes you can be both. I am happy you like your purchase. I look foward to upgrading mine as well. Gears of War and Halo are both enough for me to want a game system that plays them.

It's my Oppinion and thats exactly what I said, and again I get annoyed when the integrity of XBOX is supported and looked at as a positive game system because thats all it is - a game system. I assume and yes I do ass u me knowing that some may think of me as a Jack but "most" of the Blu-Ray forum members are adults that have a PS3 or Blu ray player who use their BD 1st gaming 2nd and those who have PS3's should in MY OPPINION despise XBOX (and a little back story I work for a software company that is in strong competition with Microcrap) so to get a short story long I would love to only read about XBOX when it is negative.

And when I say did not intend to offend it is simply saying it is not personal it's business.

Join an XBOX forum

-Cook

JTK · 05-01-2007, 07:33 PM

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Blu Tiger · 05-01-2007, 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by scook

Join an XBOX forum

-Cook

You realize that you are in the Xbox 360 section of the gaming forum for blu-ray's website right?

05-01-2007, 03:11 PM	#1
Blu Tiger Special Member Member since:Mar 2007 Location:Denver, CO Blu-ray collection:725 Trading Score:27	Got the 360 Elite and it rocks!!! Just wanted to let people know that I'm glad I did. True, it didn't come with a transfer cable, but I can wait a couple of days until they send it to me (if you only buy the HDD, then the transfer cable comes with it, otherwise MS will send it to you). Anywho, on to the reason why I'm happy I bought it: picture quality. I tested it on my 50" Pioneer Elite 1080p monitor. I used two copies of NBA: Street Homecourt (which is one of the few 360 games that outputs natively in 1080p). I put one copy in my old 360 that was hooked up via component and one copy in the Elite that was hooked up via HDMI and set to 1080p. I went to the same level in both games and then I switched back and forth between inputs so I could compare them. The difference to me was immediate. Everything was sharper and the image looked crisper on the Elite. The edge around character models on my old 360 looked slightly blurrier. I was not expecting as big a difference as I saw. To me, PQ is everything so this totally justified my purchase.

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05-01-2007, 03:23 PM	#2
jermwhl Special Member Member since:Jan 2007 Location:Virginia	cool! how well does it play HD-DVD's? sorry...couldn't resist!

05-01-2007, 03:36 PM	#3
dgator783 Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Feb 2007 Location:Lakeland,FL 4K collection:377 Blu-ray collection:1521 Blu-ray reviews:11 Trading Score:14	the 360 elite is still garbage in my eyes.....just copying Sony....Sony knew how much HDMI rocked the house and the PS3 allows you switch out the hard drive for a bigger one if u feel the need....PS3 is the elite system!

05-01-2007, 03:39 PM	#4
Iceman_II Expert Member Member since:Jan 2007 Location:Ft. Worth Home Theater Gallery:2 Blu-ray collection:308 Blu-ray reviews: 4	Interesting that you actually saw a difference... every review I have read says that the difference in PQ was negligable. Then again, maybe its a placebo effect, we humans see pretty much what we want or expect to see.

05-01-2007, 04:06 PM	#6
DV92Camaro Active Member Member since:Dec 2006 Location:San Jose, CA	I think the only major difference that you see with the Elite is with games "natively" outputting 1080p. Have you tried it with any other games kiddtigger that are not 1080p?

05-01-2007, 05:21 PM	#7
Technopath New Member Member since:May 2007	I work in the Broadcasting Audio/Visual industry and the jump from Component to HDMI on the Xbox 360 is definatly noticeable. The crispness is off the charts. Not a placebo effect at all. The edge that some PS3 games had, is no more. The truth be told... Techno out!

05-01-2007, 03:43 PM	#9
scook Senior Member Member since:Apr 2007 Location:Rochester, NY Home Theater Gallery:14 Blu-ray collection:171	It does piss me off that Heroes is not on Blu Yesterdays Episode........SOOOOOOOOOO SIAC -Cook

05-01-2007, 03:31 PM	#11
bykes Active Member Member since:Feb 2007	Out side of an HDMI port whats the reason for getting an Elite? Did they build the wireless in? Im not a fanboy, just curious.

05-01-2007, 03:40 PM	#13
scook Senior Member Member since:Apr 2007 Location:Rochester, NY Home Theater Gallery:14 Blu-ray collection:171	Couldnt resist......... I couldn't believe there was only two replies, sorry bro but you wasted 500 bux, I hope you have a PS3 as well or I guess I don't see the logic unless you like video games that are exclusive for XBOX. Spiderman 3 on PS3 is going to kick Xbox where it hurts. I don't come to Blu-Ray.com to read about a game system that has nothing to do with Bluray. Sorry, no intent to offend but I hate XBOX with the passion Once again letting a little work anger out on Xbox -Cook

05-01-2007, 07:33 PM	#19
JTK Blu-ray Knight Member since:Jan 2006 Location:www.blurayoasis.com	Koom-bay-yaaaaa... koom-bay-yaaaaa....

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