Xbox360 to an LCD

[jeremyp]

This is a bit o0f a noob question, anyways I looked on google and found that you need a VGA cable.

Qusetion 1 - our 17-inch LCD monitor probably has a 1280x1024 native resolution while most Xbox games only support 640x480. This means your LCD monitor has to stretch the image to its 1280x1024 native and this will affect the image quality. CRT monitors can display a wide variety of resolution natively.
Is this true?

Q.2 can I connect my x360 to any monitor?or does it have to be a special type of monitor

Q.3 Can I connect my x360 to my laptop? [would be better than buying a new lcd screen]

thanks for the help

 

[jeremyp]

Wait I mean connect it to a Monitor

 

[bomberboysk]

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/x/xbox360vgahdcable/

You would want either a 1920x1080 or 720p display though, or else you wont have actual HD resolution and would instead be either 720p downscaled or 480p upscaled.

As for connecting to a laptop, probably not as pretty much every laptop doesnt support video in.

 

[jeremyp]

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/x/xbox360vgahdcable/

You would want either a 1920x1080 or 720p display though, or else you wont have actual HD resolution and would instead be either 720p downscaled or 480p upscaled.

As for connecting to a laptop, probably not as pretty much every laptop doesnt support video in.

Ok thanks, could you recomend me a monitor on an au website for under $200
?

 

[bomberboysk]

Ok thanks, could you recomend me a monitor on an au website for under $200
?

http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=558_764&products_id=11235

Cheapest 1080p i could find..

 

[jeremyp]

http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=558_764&products_id=11235

Cheapest 1080p i could find..

Thanks, One more question... Does every monitor have a vga port?

 

[Vizy]

Umm, if you post a link to monitor in question we can tell you that, but usually yea.

 

[Geoffrey70]

Thanks, One more question... Does every monitor have a vga port?

If you're going 1080 then you may want to use a HDMI cable.

 

[jeremyp]

If you're going 1080 then you may want to use a HDMI cable.

So you can connect a HDMI cable to a monitor from an xbox360 without any dilemmas?

 

[andy faith]

yeah, things are a lot more compatible these days, I've got a tv in my house that has my xbox 360 and wii connected to it... but can also have my laptop connected if I wanted to, via vga or hdmi, but anything that has hdmi should support anything else with hdmi, or it makes no sense for it to exist ;-)

 

[andy faith]

assuming you have an hdmi port on your monitor that is

 

[Geoffrey70]

So you can connect a HDMI cable to a monitor from an xbox360 without any dilemmas?

Yep.

 

[jeremyp]

Chosen my monitor

I've gone with the BenQ 22" Monitor [http://store.9289.com.au/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=193_70&products_id=2621] thanks for all your help!