Xbox 360 vga abilities

[Dorkenstein]

I am going to get a vga cable to hook my 360 to a 22" Mitsubishi Diamondtron CRT monitor, but I am curious about one thing. Do I need a wide screen display to get the better (HD) resolutions? This has been bugging me, thanks for any help.

 

[Queasy]

you'll just have the black bars at the top and bottom of the screen.

 

[Dorkenstein]

Is that with or without the widescreen display? Thanks Queasy.

 

[Queasy]

with the widescreen display you'll have bars on the top and bottom.

 

[cpacini]

The 360 supports the following resolutions over VGA:
640x480
848x480
1024x768
1280x720
1280x768
1280x1024
1360x768
1920x1080

 

[bearxor]

If you choose a 4:3 resolution in the dashboard, it will show a full screen during gameplay. I've hooked one up to my crt monitor a few times.

 

[erwos]

Originally posted by: bearxor
If you choose a 4:3 resolution in the dashboard, it will show a full screen during gameplay. I've hooked one up to my crt monitor a few times.

This depends on the game. Some of them will actually produce a widescreen frame using black bars to preserve aspect.

 

[vshah]

Originally posted by: erwos

Originally posted by: bearxor
If you choose a 4:3 resolution in the dashboard, it will show a full screen during gameplay. I've hooked one up to my crt monitor a few times.

This depends on the game. Some of them will actually produce a widescreen frame using black bars to preserve aspect.

for example, forza 2 does this

 

[ZzZGuy]

I use a VGA cable with my XBox 360 on several LCD monitors with no problems. Just set the xbox to the monitors native resolution and it'll work fine.