Old Xbox 360s To Get 1080p June 28, 2007
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The Xbox 360 Elite, due later this year, seems like the best way to get Full HD, or 1080p, gaming on your swanky new flat TV.
Still, it’s of absolutely no use to the millions of owners of the white Xbox 360, unless of course, they are desperate enough to actually go buy the black Elite console for the sake of the HDMI and a bigger hard disk drive.
Cable manufacturer XCM may have a solution for us though, claiming it is nearly finished development on a cable [that odd-looking thing above] that will allow 1080p output via HDMI from your current Xbox 360. The timeframe is four weeks but there’s no detail on this product, how it works and whether or not it will actually work.
Still, if real, it could be a great - and cheap - solution for the 360 horde who are feeling a little left out in the hi-def cold.-Martin Lynch
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Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't the white Xbox out put 1080p if anyway if using the correct cable?
Correct. The 360 does not scale content to 1080p when using component, but over VGA all games and content (including DVDs) are scaled to 1080p.
HDMI is a digital signal which is supported by the Elite, as a result you lose less quality through avoiding the conversion to analog.
With this cable on the old 360s you'd be converting from digital>analog>digital again and would be further degrading the quality, despite it being 'HDMI'.
Hmmmm, the last poster is almost right, though his assumption that anyone who uses this cable will be degrading their signal quality is missing the point somewhat . . . . As HD TVs are digital devices, the analogue Component or VGA inputs would be converted to digital by ADCs built into the TV, in this case, the ADC (Analogue to DIgital Conversion) is taking place somewhere else . . . . EITHER way ADC is happening, the only thing that may make a difference here is the quality of the ADC that makes the conversion. WIth a high-end TV, the chances are that the ADC will be better than one used in a low-cost conversion cable, though with lower-end Plasma / LCDs, the ADC is poor to say the least, so for these panels, this cable MAY improve the image quality ever so slightly !