Would my xbox look like crap on my Dell 2001FP?

[Schadenfroh]

Currently I have it hooked up to my Sony Wega 27" Flat Screen SDTV Trinitron CRT. My Dell 2001FP has s-video in and I was curious if anyone has their consoles hooked up to their monitors via s-video connectors.

I am talking about the old xbox 1 here, not the xbox360 and I have the advanced a/v pack (but no HD connectors, s-video is the best signal that I can get out of it).

The monitor does a mediocre job at scaling over the DVI connector, I play 640x480 and 800x600 games fairly regularly.

The reason that I am asking this and not trying it myself is because I currently have the xbox hooked into my Sony in a very... complicated.... cabinet and it would be time consuming to remove and/or put back in place.

I want to play Jade Empire, but I cannot get used to playing games on my TV again for some reason. The PC version has some nasty DRM on it, so I just bought a used copy of the xbox version for like $5.

 

[GregGreen]

I don't have an Xbox or a 2001FP, but I did try to hook up my 360 to my 2007WFP with the composite connector when I first got the 360. It was NOT pretty! From what I saw, I would guess that the deinterlacer on the monitor was terrible. Incredible amounts of tearing were all over the screen. This is just what happened with my equipment in a slightly different setting. Best of luck

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: GregGreen
I don't have an Xbox or a 2001FP, but I did try to hook up my 360 to my 2007WFP with the composite connector when I first got the 360. It was NOT pretty! From what I saw, I would guess that the deinterlacer on the monitor was terrible. Incredible amounts of tearing were all over the screen. This is just what happened with my equipment in a slightly different setting. Best of luck

Your 2007WFP is MUCH newer than my 2001FP, so I imagine it would only be worse on mine. I think I will just leave it be and buy the STEAM version of Jade Empire when the price drops. That does not sound like something I would want to play...

 

[otispunkmeyer]

not sure but last i checked playing 640x480 or 800x600 on a 1600x1200 screen looked pretty naff. and S-video ranks with RF as perhaps the worst way to get video from one box to another ever especially if you are going to connect a flat panel monitor. it'll suffice for a standard 50/60hz 480i television set but nothing more. its just garbage. can you not get a VGA or component connector for the xbox?

i found panels tend to bring out the crudiness more, a CRT TV will hide alot of stuff from you. for example GT4 looks stunning on the PS2 and normal Standard Def CRT TV. but put that thing on a flat panel computer monitor thru s-vid and it looks like ass. its like zooming in 4x on what is a small, interlaced image. you can even see the interlacing! and the cruddy low res texture work.

basically the combo of S-video (which low quality as far as video connections go) and low resolutions on a high resolution monitor is why it looks crap. there isnt really a way round that. consoles of that gen were designed to look good on CRT SDTV's they cant provide the neccessary detail needed for higher res viewing.

your dell should be able to 1:1 pixel map, though it might not work on the s-video connection, and if it does you'll be sat looking at, at most, a 800x600 square slap bang in the middle of the screen.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer
can you not get a VGA or component connector for the xbox?

The xbox 1 has a VGA connector pack?

 

[duragezic]

Stuff like X2VGA is expensive and wouldn't be worth it unless you game heavily on a console and don't have a TV.

I've used my 2005FPW in Aspect mode to play a regular Xbox. Some games looked pretty naff. Some looked not much different than the TV. It was convenient for me though as I don't have a TV but could get cable TV, Xbox, or DVI from my computer all very easily and from one display.

Key thing with the cable TV and Xbox was to SIT BACK! Obviously a 640x480 image scaled to over 1360x1024 can't be too pretty no matter what, and as you said, I think the deinterlacing is also bad. Still, it didn't prevent me from playing Xbox. Again, sit at least 6 feet back. I was using the composite connector too, but AFAIK there usually isn't too great of a difference between composite and s-video. If that Xbox (that's not even mine) didn't get friggin' busted by someone else and I can't figure out how to fix it, else I could take some pictures of it in use to give you an idea.


edit: I thought Xbox could run most all fairly new games at 480p and some at 720p even?? That would look better but not sure the full story with that and can s-video support 480p even?

 

[Ruptga]

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer
not sure but last i checked playing 640x480 or 800x600 on a 1600x1200 screen looked pretty naff. and S-video ranks with RF as perhaps the worst way to get video from one box to another ever especially if you are going to connect a flat panel monitor. it'll suffice for a standard 50/60hz 480i television set but nothing more. its just garbage. can you not get a VGA or component connector for the xbox?

S-Video is worse than composite?

 

[darkswordsman17]

It won't look that good, and will look worse because you'll be closer to the monitor than you probably were with the TV, but I don't think its unplayable bad. I played Xbox, PS2, and GC all on various monitors that I've had, including a 2405FPW, and I personally didn't mind it.