How bad will the 360 look on a 27" LCD?

[ixelion]

Do I need to lower my expectations considerably, especially since I do PC gaming at 2560x1440?. Basically I can get a 360 A dirt cheap for just some occasional causal gaming.

 

[MrWizzard]

Change your resolution to 1280 x 720 on your computer and that will give you a good idea of what to expect…..

 

[BD2003]

Change your resolution to 1280 x 720 on your computer and that will give you a good idea of what to expect…..

For some reason 720p seems to look considerably worse on a PC staring at a 26 inch monitor from 2 feet away compared to a 60 inch plasma from 6 feet away.

 

[RedRooster]

I'd like to know as well, as I get kicked out of the livingroom for The Bachelor most evenings. Would like XBox on a small LCD and headphones and just huddle in a closet.
My friend uses one, and he says its alot more precise for shooters, since you are sitting so close you can see all the pixels(and therefore dudes at a distance) really well.

 

[purbeast0]

I'd like to know as well, as I get kicked out of the livingroom for The Bachelor most evenings. Would like XBox on a small LCD and headphones and just huddle in a closet.
My friend uses one, and he says its alot more precide for shooters, since you are sitting so close you can see all the pixels(and therefore dudes are a distance) really well.

it's probably more precise because it has les input lag than the living room tv. i game on a 23" monitor that is popular for fighting games because it has some of the lowest input lag you can possibly get out of a monitor. it's at 8ms which is little.

the dlp i gamed on for years had input lag of over 100ms that i was totally unaware of for years. so all games seemed much more precise when i started gaming on the monitor.

graphics look incredible on the monitor as well, sitting from a few feet away, as oppose to about 13 feet away from my 50" DLP. i've used both HDMI and VGA output from the 360 and they both look great. HDMI probably looks a tad better.

 

[RedRooster]

Well then! Once new tv season starts, I may end up just needing one of these fancy little monitors! Sounds great.

 

[Tweak155]

I played both PS3 and XBox 360 on my 24" 1920x1200 monitor. They looked great.

 

[ixelion]

does the image get stretched vert/hor at all?

 

[Tweak155]

does the image get stretched vert/hor at all?

I would imagine this is based on how your monitor would handle the shorter image. For me, I got 2 small black bars at the top and bottom, basically 60 lines chopped off on both.

Easily the best quality I've seen for the consoles.

 

[Dessert Tears]

I've played a lot of Xbox 360 and PS3 on my Dell 2408FPW, as well as PS2 on my older Dell 2001FP. I sit pretty close to my TV when gaming, and the monitor is a step up from that. The only recent PC game I've played is SC2 with graphics set to Low.

does the image get stretched vert/hor at all?

Mine can output 1:1, stretch 16x9 vertically to fill 16x10 (Fill), or maintain aspect ratio for top/bottom black bars (Aspect). If the 360 is set to upscale to 1080p, 1:1 looks the same as Aspect, but the PS3 insists on outputting games at 720p (gigantic black border on 1:1, okay on Aspect).

 

[themule1406]

Agree with others. I played on xbox 360 on a 24" Dell for over a year and enjoyed the experience, especially if you use headphones.

 

[Geosurface]

when I was in the navy i'd play 360 on my 27" Dell monitor from 2007 and I thought it looked like ass. I dramatically prefer consoles on my 40" Samsung LED TV I've gotten since.

PC games look great on my monitor, console games do not. I do play PC games on the TV sometimes. (I have a 25 foot HDMI cable going across the living room to my TV for this) and I usually use an xbox controller with my PC for that:

 

[VGPOM]

It definitely depends on a lot more than just the screen size. How far away you are from the screen will make a big difference. So does the latency in the screen and the resolution (as others have mentioned). I sometimes play Xbox 360 on a 21" TV, but I have it set up on a desk like a monitor, so I'm sitting relatively close to the screen. The visual experience is just as enjoyable as on my 32" TV in the living room. It is less comfortable, though. Perhaps I should look into getting a better chair.