Dumb Xbox 360 Question

[InuTrunks]

Re: Dumb Xbox 360 Question

Jei, xbox360 will have a VGA kit you can get for like 29.99 I think, which untill I can get my HDTV from my parents house, I'll be using that.

[sdfb6]

Re: Dumb Xbox 360 Question

Yup, I looked it up too, lol, and it's comming out as an "official accessory" with the XBOX 360. I have a 17" Screen, I just don't know if i can play FFXI on the computer all day, on console laying back is a different, but much lower res, story.

[Macht]

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Ok, seems there's some confusion on what Component Video, S-Video, and Regular Video is as well as HD and the TVs basically Low Definition.

First off TVs standard resolution if recall correctly (not refferencing any info about it right now) is 720x480, with HD (High Definition) they up the numbers of lines so the TV is capable of creating a crisper, smoother, and clearer image. A HDTV screen has around 1024 x 768 pixel resolution to 1366 x 768 pixel resolution. This means that the Resolution given to an HDTV can go higher then 720x480 and the TV will be capable of displaying it with everything still being readable and clear.

If you attempt to feed a 1024x768 resolution into a non-HDTV it'll compress the it down to fit on the screens 720x480 pixel resolution, end result is many small icon images and text becomes a small pixel grouping as well as detail being reduced that it becomes a mess. Large objects and detail still come out clean but smaller objects or identifying smaller detail is impossible.


Component Video, S-Video, and Regular Video do nothing with the Image resolution. These are the medium in how the video data is sent to the TV and each have differences in how they handle the color quality of the image. Regular Video is more restricted in the color range it can use, not as bad as only 256 color choices but pretty close still.

S-Video and Component Video are capable of feeding the TV millions of colors improving the images color quality so it can look cleaner, brighter, and is more pleasing to the eye. The only major difference between Component Video and S-Video (Outside of the 1 connection 'S-Video' vs. 3 connections 'Component') is how they sustain a color.

S-Video has all it's millions of collors on a frequency setting, problem comes when it hits certain frequencies were outside interferance such as electromagnetic can shift it off slightly altering certain colors outcome such as cyan, to end up coming out as green or blue. Component Video uses 3 frequencies, 1 controls the intensity of each primary color (Red, Blue, Green 'I know it's yellow, but for systems it's actually green forgot the reason why have to look that up again'). In this fashion an outside source can't knock the frequency off. They also have a larger ranges without all of it being crammed on one signal, so they have more room for error and still will get the right color and sustain it constantly.

Above Component Video is going into Fiber Optics which as far as I know Fiber Optics is the ultimate possible in getting the most color ranges and sustaining them the best.