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[Lamer123]

My 360 dvd player looks amazing.

Sometimes I think it is HD on my TV

[rob61]

The Blue Ray player in my PS3 puts out an excellent picture whether its Blue Ray or DVD. I guess because of that, I've never used my 360 for DVD playback.

[elitegamer360]

the guy is just a retard, he is comparing a £200 gaming console with a £500 dedicated DVD player, what did he suspect utter magic. any way my 360 DVD play Back is great I love it  

[dkkev]

whoa.. i pointed out fautly / crappy dvd-playback over a year ago as a major fix for MS todo...

whoever says this article is bollox knows nowt about dvd-playback... the 360 is shite compared to what its capable of..

dont get me wrong - i love my 360 - but for dvd-playback i'll stick to my xbox1 or a standalone dvdplayer.. they do a much better job at that.

[BoostFrenzy]

this review is pure CRAP, i tested my xbox 360 over vga head to head with my sony dvp-ns75h with hdmi @ both 720p and 1080i, the xbox met or SURPASSED this highly respected player in my own testing, so i sold the sony. period.

[signal-to-noise-ratio]

I rarely watch dvds on my 360 it doesnt look terrible I was using component but the best dvd player I ever had was my creative labs dxr3 board watching dvds on that feels more imersive then 360.

[shanoo]

yeah, something's definately wrong here...

when i first got my 360, it output dvds with that bad quality in the test

but after the big update, it was very smooth (no more feathering/artifacts)...


perhaps this is another sony propaganda?

[nuzzy]

Dumb question - is this talking about the base console or the HD-DVD addon?

[0794]

absolutely bogus article with false "facts" and poor evidence.

[tdcemanuel]

Wow I know they aint talking about my DVD Player, my jumpoff is crispy...it even manages to play those really really scratched DVD's. For anyone curious, mine works fine.

[troyBORG]

I've acually noticed that.  I thought it was cause it was running the movie in 480p.    I put the movie in my Xbox and run it at 720p and didn't notice it.   Is it the player or the software?  Like does XBMC handle DVDs and videos better or is it just me?

[funnyperson1]

XBMC handles DVDs and videos infinitely better on an HDTV because it actually upscales to HD resolution.

[RequimForMe]

I myself prefer XBMC for sure... pretty much the only reason I even keep the damn thing around anymore.

[luther349]

my dvds play just fine on my 360 better then my set top one on my main tv. those pics have to be fakes or thers something wrong with his 360 couse i never saw any 360 play a dvd that bad. image ghosting is a sighn of a bad video card.

[xsirxx]

QUOTE(SteveNZ @ Feb 1 2007, 05:28 AM)

Certainly, if you'd like to provide me with a commercial site that I can publish the article on, and get other sites to link to it as being "informative", I'll do it.

Running my 360 over component, VGA or composite into various screens, none look as bad as these guys are making out. They've either got a hardware incompatiblity somewhere, or they're straight out talking bullshit. It's not a particularly good DVD player, but it's not as bad as they're making out.
What type of projector? If you're talking about a hang-from-the-ceiling unit then not a chance your blacks are better than plasma. Maybe you mean rear projection or DLP?

I know some plasmas have hit 10000:1 now, but yea front projection on a VPL-HS60(also known as the 51A).  They can achieve this now because of the variable iris... which most projectors are coming out with these days, thats even in the cheap range like the HS60...