Xbox Elite and summer processor update

freshmasterfresh

I just got an LCD TV, and now I'm noticing greens bleeding around reds, such as around the needle on my tachometer in Forza 2. I am considering the possibility of selling some stuff to a friend in order to update to an Elite console and its HDMI output. If any of you fine gentlemen have an Elite 360 running through HDMI, how do you like it? Are the Elite systems using the new more efficient processors yet?

The search feature was being a dick, but I apologize if I missed a thread that already covers this stuff.

Local H Jay

I don't think the new processors have been released yet, but they are nearing completion apparently.
But I've seen and HDMI to Compnent comparison, and while the difference is noticeable, it's nothing to break your bank over.

Dominic Dragon

Supposedly, the better 360 chips are coming in the fall, so you might want to wait. There's also word of MS repairing broken 360's with better heatsinks too, but who knows.

Handkor

Before doing that can you try or have you tried the VGA cable?

Serpent

I'm betting this isn't the cables, but the settings on your LCD.

LCD tvs DO NOT come with 'good' settings out of the box, they need to be adjusted. Their are tons and tons of good guides on the internet on how to do this.... a good scene in a movie to test is the nekkid girl in the roses scene in American Beauty.

freshmasterfresh

I don't have American Beauty, but I rather like the settings I settled on. I started with a few games of Geometry Wars to check out the response time and basic settings, followed by Sin City to work on the brightness and contrast, and then Pleasantville for the color tone and saturation. I'll fuck with them whenever they don't suit what I'm watching, but no matter what I do with the TV, the component cables just aren't perfect. I also tried the VGA cable I've been using with my monitor, but the picture didn't fill the screen and wasn't centered. If my TV offered some geometric adjustment I'd be fine, but even then I would have a white xbox and a black tv.

These are my reasons for wanting an elite. While it most definitely isn't a big deal, if I could trade straight up, I would go for it, but only if I were getting the new processor revision as well.

Hewn

No processor revision yet. And even when it does hit, it will be a bit before the old stock gets dwindled enough you can find the new ones. The internet will likely explode with ways to spot them within a few weeks after release, though. Microsoft isn't going to put on the box, "Don't buy the one next to this, its old!" Shame.

Serpent

if your reds and greens are bleeding, the elite and hdmi cable probably won't do anything.

reds bleeding (and it is most noticeable into green) are definately your colour settings and not the cable. I don't have pleasantville and I haven't seen it so I don't know if that's a good movie to test.

devoir

Trying to hold out until the 65nm processor update comes through... but it'll probably be Christmas before they hit Australia in any significant numbers. And I've got a feeling that Mass Effect will come out before then.

Mr Peepers

I'm sure you have at least one DVD with a guide on adjusting your TV settings.

Don't all (if not most) THX DVDs have a guide? I know all the Star Wars ones do.

Zilla360

Does anyone know when MS will start selling the Elite/120Gb Hard Disk outside of the U.S ?

devoir

Australian EB internal is saying September/October.

OtakuD00D

What I wonder is, if Microsoft will offer to take in any previously owned 360's and upgrade the cores. Just about every 360 owner SHOULD be entitled to this, especially those who've suffered the Red Ring of Death because of this.

FreddyD

The slightly cooler processor may delay the inevitable but most of the hardware failures are being caused by the way the motherboard flexes. The heat is just a catalyst.

Lave II

I fucking hate the Xbox Elite. As everytime I see it's name it a headline or title I think it's announcing Elite IV is 1) actually being made and 2) Going to come out on the Xbox so that I could actually get to play it.

Which is pretty much my dream.

Then I realise they are talking about a slightly better version of the 360 and I get really sad.

FyreWulff

OtakuD00D wrote: »

What I wonder is, if Microsoft will offer to take in any previously owned 360's and upgrade the cores. Just about every 360 owner SHOULD be entitled to this, especially those who've suffered the Red Ring of Death because of this.

seeing as how they're probably one of the most expensive parts of the 360, no

Dr_Keenbean

Serpent wrote: »

I'm betting this isn't the cables, but the settings on your LCD.

LCD tvs DO NOT come with 'good' settings out of the box, they need to be adjusted. Their are tons and tons of good guides on the internet on how to do this.... a good scene in a movie to test is the nekkid girl in the roses scene in American Beauty.

This is so god damn true. They're usually set to look good in a store display, not in your house.

Luckily for me, my roomate is one of the Magnolia install guys and he got free use of some retarded expensive calibration tool. Wow.

Gihgehls

Is your 360's cable set to "hdtv?" Contrary to many here, I think your problem is in the signal path, not with your settings.

freshmasterfresh

It isn't really an issue anymore. I'm not sure if it's better now because of changes I've made to the TV's settings or if it has to do with rearranging my room. I suspect it may have been too close to a poorly sheilded power cable.

Anyways, I'm happy enough with it, now. Regarding the THX calibration stuff, Pleasantville had a guide. That was what I used initially, but that didn't really have anything to do with the Xbox input. I think I'll throw it in the xbox now and recalibrate.

NickTheNewbie

Dr_Keenbean wrote: »

Serpent wrote: »

I'm betting this isn't the cables, but the settings on your LCD.

LCD tvs DO NOT come with 'good' settings out of the box, they need to be adjusted. Their are tons and tons of good guides on the internet on how to do this.... a good scene in a movie to test is the nekkid girl in the roses scene in American Beauty.

This is so god damn true. They're usually set to look good in a store display, not in your house.

Luckily for me, my roomate is one of the Magnolia install guys and he got free use of some retarded expensive calibration tool. Wow.

care to point me to a good guide?