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Hooking 360 to a 1600 x 900 Monitor

Frosty the Snow PlowFrosty the Snow Plow Registered User regular
edited June 2010 in Moe's Stupid Technology Tavern
My google-fu isn't serving me well today.

My old CRT TV gave out today and since all I ever used it for was gaming, I decided to see about hooking up a nice PC monitor I had laying around. I understand that I'll need two adaptors, one for the 360 -> Monitor, and one for the audio jacks to a 3.5mm stereo female, but I'm not particularly literate about these things.

For getting a 1600 x 900 monitor to work well, would VGA or HDMI-to-DVI be better? Since the resolution itself isn't exactly supported, how close can I get? If not streched, will the letterboxing be particularly bad?

Any help would be rad. I'm only vaguely knowledgeable about any of this.

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    FoomyFoomy Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    http://www.amazon.ca/Xbox-360-VGA-Video-Cable/dp/B000B6MLTG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1277582818&sr=8-1

    official xbox 360 vga cables, contains everything you need including the rca->3.5mm stero adapter.

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    Frosty the Snow PlowFrosty the Snow Plow Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Well that would cover it. :)

    This is kind of a specific concern, but can't hurt to ask: Anyone know for sure you can find a good match for 1600 x 900 resolution since it isn't supported?

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    The Dude With HerpesThe Dude With Herpes Lehi, UTRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    The 360 should autoselect the proper resolution.

    Mine always did when I switched it to a non 1080/720 standard resolution monitor.

    Worst case go into the system settings and choose a resolution that is the same aspect ratio as your monitor.

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    Frosty the Snow PlowFrosty the Snow Plow Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Fantastic, thanks.

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    BartholamueBartholamue Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Yeah, I used my 1680x1050 monitor for over half a year and it scaled fine, though admittedly, this was after the patch.

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    FuriousJodoFuriousJodo Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    HDMI to DVI or VGA should work fine, I have used both settings perfectly fine on a 1680x1050 monitor. I don't know that it has 1600x900 but it might.

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