Hd screen for 360.....

dave oc

Ok, i have been looking around at the many hdtv ready screens on the net and would really like to get one for the 360 but considering i will be parting with €500 or so for the console it looks like i will be short on funds for a new hd ready lcd.

I was reading on gamespot that you could connect the 360 to a pc lcd by vga and get a similar effect. Just wondering does anyone know what this would look like eg on a 19" tft decent spec monitor. Would it be hd or should i just stick with my sdtv?

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projectmayhem

don't see the point in getting hdtv just yet. wait until the market's matured a bit and prices drop some more (i.e. when ps3 or hd-dvd/blu-ray hits stores). plus, the games right now will look sweet hd or not

Laguna

I bought a 19" Dell LCD-TV that's capable of outputting 1080i (the hd format that the 360 will output at) for €448, it's not strictly a HDTV but it does me for what I want it to do, play the 360 in Hi-Def!

gireland

as the second poster said, it is definitely a case of waiting just yet. alot, if not most of the, so called, HDTV's do not support all the HD formats in a true sense. by this I mean, most of the Philips HDTVs (bar the recent high end models that sell for 4000 plus) have a resolution of 1366x768. because of this, yes they can do 720i/p, but to reproduce a 1080i/p signal they have to downscale, and the actual LCD panel doesn't have the pixels there to view the res. the recent high end tv, they are calling them TRUE HDTV, this in fact is correct. the are fitted with an LCD panel of 1920x1080... thus can handel all the resolution, and could be considered pretty much futureproof for the next 5-7 or so years.
I have to say from my research in the the area, Philips seem to be right on the ball at the moment, with their TrueHD screen. they have an amazing refresh rate, like less than 6ms, which is amazing! and also alot of, if not most of the current lcd manufatures, as the the companies who produce the LCD screens for the TV companies are slowing down to stopping production of the 1366x768 screen, and rampping up the production of the 1920x1080 because it's what ppl want. so this time next year, the philips tv which costs 4000k at the moment for a 37inch model, will cost you about 1.5-2k. that's alot of money to loose in 8-12 months. so as the second poster said, it's definitely a better choice to wait, and when competition of the TRUEHD screens heats up, then you will get a great tv, for alot less money than you will today!!

oh, and on the Philips tv, yeah, it's expensive, but it's turely a great screen. not only is it TRUEHD, it has a Motorised base for rotating the screen left and right, memory card reader, Philips Ambilight 2 system, PixelPlus HD system. I don't work for Philips or anything like that. i'm an avid fan of good AV equipment, and if i had the money now, and wanted a fantastic tv that would last anyone for at least the next 5-10 years. and it has all the features to support SkyHD and anything else you can throw at it!!! that's just my 2 cents on the topic,

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EDIT: here is the link to the 37" version of the tv i was talking about above, but it is also availble in a 42" version

http://www.consumer.philips.com/consumer/catalog/catalog.jsp?fhquery=fh_secondid%3D37pf9830_10_ie_consumer%26fh_location%3D%2F%2Fconsumer%2Fen_IE%2Fcategories%3Ccatalog_ie_consumer%2Fcategories%3Ctv_gr_ie_consumer%2Fcategories%3Cflat_tv_ca_ie_consumer%2Fcategories%3Clcd_large_30_40_su_ie_consumer%26&productId=37PF9830_10_IE_CONSUMER&activeCategory=TV_GR_IE_CONSUMER&fredhopperpage=detail.jsp&language=en&country=IE&catalogType=CONSUMER&proxybuster=UJ4BVQDQEN1CVJ0RMRESHQVHKFSEKI5P

dave oc

Laguna, just a quick question about your dell, have you used it for any sort of gaming yet and does it perform ok? I ask because i see it has a 25ms response time which i would have thought to be way to high for gaming so any feedback would be great.

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Laguna

Yeah I forgot to mention the 25ms issue, but to be honest I've been playing FPS games on my PC for years now with a monitor that has a 23ms response rate and I don't notice a difference in my new TV, then again this is what I'm used to, so the move from 23ms to 25ms was inconsequential to my eyes!. I know people who have 8ms & 16ms monitors swear by them, but I only play casually anyway and I'm not going to obsess over refresh rates that differ by 10ms and, lets be honest, it's 25 milliseconds!, it's still a tiny amount!.

I wanted a HDTV for my 360 and consequentially found myself on a budget, I saw this TV and feel it fits the bill perfectly, it's a good viewing size, has HD output and was under 500 (the winning factor), not forgetting the fact I only bought it to play the 360, nothing else. I couldn't (and still can't) justify parting with 800-900 for a Samsung or whatever (that probably has 25ms as well) to just play games on it, my Dell 19" does me perfectly!.