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Xbox 360 on an LCD Monitor?
Snake Gandhi
Des Moines, IARegistered User regular
Des Moines, IARegistered User regular
I know some folks here are running their 360 on a computer monitor, I was looking for some advice.
I don't have an HDTV, and don't have room for anything over 26" or so anyway. Sadly the smallest 1080p set I could find was 32". So I figured a decent 24" 1920x1200 monitor would do. I'm looking at this one at the moment,
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16824255001
It's got VGA, Composite, Component, and HDMI (should I decide to get an Elite). I hear Wesinghouse is a decent enough brand, and the reviews are fairly good.
My biggest question is sound. Its got speakers, but I'm just gonna assume they're crap. What would be the best (yet still reasonably expensive) way to get decent sound?
I don't have an HDTV, and don't have room for anything over 26" or so anyway. Sadly the smallest 1080p set I could find was 32". So I figured a decent 24" 1920x1200 monitor would do. I'm looking at this one at the moment,
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16824255001
It's got VGA, Composite, Component, and HDMI (should I decide to get an Elite). I hear Wesinghouse is a decent enough brand, and the reviews are fairly good.
My biggest question is sound. Its got speakers, but I'm just gonna assume they're crap. What would be the best (yet still reasonably expensive) way to get decent sound?
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Just route the sound into your soundcard.
1080p is impossible over component cables. You have to use HDMI, or a HDMI-to-DVI cable.
If you can get line in on a soundcard to work that porbably is the bet thing to do
The cables can carry the signal though.
edit: for the record i'm running mine over VGA into my LCD, and the sound into my speaker's AUX.
(For the record my only PC is a Dell Laptop)
edit: you'll be using the laptop speakers to play games? Ehhh...might as well get a decent set of speakers. They don't have to be expensive.
I'm running Altec MX5021's.
My only complaint is my sound, I got a Y-jack so that I could plug into the aux on my speakers but I only get mono out of 1 speaker, though I don't care too much. I'll need to invest in a better setup sometime in the future.
your Y-adapter, does it support stereo?
if it does, you should have two black bars on it. the one that came with the VGA kit does.
i have another one from radioshack that is mono.
Mine is the one that came with Microsoft's VGA adapter, and yet I still have the problem of it not sending the signal to my left and right speakers.
When I tried hooking it up with the component cables, it would underscan the 720p really bad, and, of course, 1080 is out of it's resolution. Once I hooked up the VGA cable, though, it has worked great, running at 1360x768, and the picture is perfect.
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No idea, it was the only available jack that The Source had and I needed some kind of sound solution because the linein on my onboard sound wont go to my speakers. I think it's a vista issue, I can see that the line in is creating sound but there's no option under my speakers to unmute it.
Pretty sure this isn't true considering the system had the option to output 1080p WAY before there was a HDMI xbox.
But anyway, it looked really good; definitely as good as any standard HDTV - though some games did have problems with v-sync, so sometimes you'd get slight tearing in the sides of the screen. It might just have been my monitor, though.
And yeah, if you plan on making this a permanent solution, definitely invest in a 16:9 monitor.
I don't know if it's the same for all monitors but mine is 16:10 and I just choose to play with some small barely noticeable black bars, like 1cm top and bottom rather than having it stretched.
Plenty of displays support 1080p over components.
If I decided I didn't care about 1080p, how high of a resolution would i need for 720p to look good? Isn't 720p like 1280x800 or there abouts?
I ask because I see this monitor,
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824014146
It's a 20' Benq that does 1650x1050, and it's a lot cheaper. Would a 360 support that resolution?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824254020
People seem to be loving it for their 360's...
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I think he was talking about a teevee. Not a monitor. Granted, they both do the same thing, but I'd only want that monitor if I was gaming in my cubicle or my dorm room. Otherwise a 32" would be perfect.
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edit- I should probably mention that I'm a truck driver, so I'm looking for something I can put back in the sleeper cab. And it's a company truck, so no mounting big HDTV's, which is why I need small.
In terms of sound, even though my Samsung HDTV has decent speakers, I output the sound through my JBL Creature 2 Speakers. The 360 has plugs for this via the VGA cable, and with the PS3 you can have video output via HDMI and switch sound to Output via the A/V port OR the optical port.
For reference, these are the speakers I use, had them a year already and don't see myself replacing them anytime soon! http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16836101011
See, this makes perfect sense. In this case you'll save money getting a big monitor instead of a small hdtv.
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Those look promising, thanks.
So... wouldn't the monitor I linked be a pretty good choice then?
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1920x1080
1280x720
720x480
480p/i = 852x480
720p = 1280x720
1080i/p = 1920x1080
^ above me thinks hes so much better than me
but my numbers are more correct so nyah
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Edit: because I have a 17" monitor that does 1280x1080, so does that count at 4:3 1080p?
but that may depend on the region
doesn't the PAL 480 res differ from the NTCS?
it'd be pretty dumb if the shape changed, you won't have any additional information on the screen
edit: that's not to say there aren't screen that do this. there are a bunch of "widescreen" EDTV sets that have a res of 1024x1024, which does result in rectangular pixels.
I think alot of the stuff to do with naming HD resolutions is dumb, I am certainly way above average competence for IT/AV stuff, and I still struggle to get my head round it.