Topic: New Xbox 360 Coming with HDMI port? (Read 967 times)

mironicus · « **Reply #60 on:** July 08, 2006, 04:36:00 PM »

I will buy a XBOX 360 after MS shrinks the gpu and cpu. It will be more silent and uses less electricity.

Landlocked · « **Reply #61 on:** July 08, 2006, 04:40:00 PM »

Silly gamers! Making us buy another one is how XBOX is going to sell 10 million more units by Christmas!

SE7N · « **Reply #62 on:** July 08, 2006, 05:41:00 PM »

Does it even matter? Is HDMI better in any way than regular component? I don't get it.

krims0n · « **Reply #63 on:** July 08, 2006, 05:45:00 PM »

I don't understand why people get so upset about MS trying to move forward and improve parts of the 360 to stay competitive. Adding an HDMI port to a new revision does no harm to current owners. It's not like games will be "HDMI Only" or something, it's just an a/v connection. So why should MS hold back from updating the console? To not hurt our feelings? If my 360 ever breaks and I have to buy a new one I'd be more then happy if that new one had an HDMI port and internal HD-DVD player!

Landlocked · « **Reply #64 on:** July 08, 2006, 06:17:00 PM »

QUOTE(krims0n @ Jul 8 2006, 07:52 PM)

I don't understand why people get so upset about MS trying to move forward and improve parts of the 360 to stay competitive. Adding an HDMI port to a new revision does no harm to current owners. It's not like games will be "HDMI Only" or something, it's just an a/v connection. So why should MS hold back from updating the console? To not hurt our feelings? If my 360 ever breaks and I have to buy a new one I'd be more then happy if that new one had an HDMI port and internal HD-DVD player!

If one or both of mine break, I'll glady buy a new HDMI unit if they're around. The beef is with XBOX shipping before it was ready for primetime so it could get a leg up on PS3.

rihgt682 · « **Reply #65 on:** July 08, 2006, 06:34:00 PM »

This is good news. we should be encouraging this. Not against it. I"m sure MS will have something for who already own xbox 360 IF this is TRUE. The reason i'm happy is because i dont' have 360 YET.

paranoia4422 · « **Reply #66 on:** July 08, 2006, 07:11:00 PM »

QUOTE(Manya @ Jul 9 2006, 01:00 AM)

i'd love one with HDMI. I mean, even though my plasma has component, using the DVI port gives way better picture. You notice it when watching DVD's with an upscaled DVD player.

Also, you don't have to setup any colour settings when using DVI/HDMI, you only have to adjust the brightness.

My sets the oppisite, component deliver superior quality compared to digital....all depends on your set

Reaper527 · « **Reply #67 on:** July 08, 2006, 07:48:00 PM »

QUOTE(Manya @ Jul 8 2006, 08:00 PM)

i'd love one with HDMI. I mean, even though my plasma has component, using the DVI port gives way better picture. You notice it when watching DVD's with an upscaled DVD player.

Also, you don't have to setup any colour settings when using DVI/HDMI, you only have to adjust the brightness.

DVI == HDMI for the most part as far as interchangability goes, you can get an adaptor make the end pin out differantly and there will be no quality loss

Foe-hammer · « **Reply #68 on:** July 08, 2006, 07:52:00 PM »

HDMI required for 'Full HD', is the biggest bunch of bullshit i've ever heard.

VGA can handle resolutions over 1080p, and has been doing so for over a decade. And there is argueably no difference in image quality, from vga to hdmi.

The only reason for hdmi is for copy protection, and not the 'better connection' that the PR try to make it out to be. What a joke.

jtom617 · « **Reply #69 on:** July 08, 2006, 08:01:00 PM »

did anyone happen to notice the normal 3pin fan connection next the the port? i thought the 360 had the p4 style power for the fans. Tell me if im wrong, but it sure looks like a normal 3pin fan connector, that you would find on a PC motherboard..

STICKY_BUD · « **Reply #70 on:** July 08, 2006, 08:10:00 PM »

QUOTE(jtom617 @ Jul 8 2006, 07:08 PM)

did anyone happen to notice the normal 3pin fan connection next the the port? i thought the 360 had the p4 style power for the fans. Tell me if im wrong, but it sure looks like a normal 3pin fan connector, that you would find on a PC motherboard..

yes, i pointed that out this morning and to me it looks an awful lot like a transposed and obviously fake photo of an xbox1 mobo. possibly someone went through the trouble of glueing the parts onto an old xbox1 mobo, but i fail to see why someone would do that when they could photochop it(there are plenty of online photos to find the right parts needed to do this).

heraldoffailure · « **Reply #71 on:** July 08, 2006, 11:24:00 PM »

MS gets Sony fever... They're motto of why make one console right the first time when you can sell it to them twice?

G0t M4xx 21 · « **Reply #72 on:** July 08, 2006, 11:50:00 PM »

the big difference between HDMI/DVI and Component/VGA is a truely digital signal vs. alanog signal.

In the Xbox 360, all the GPU's outputs and stuff are in a purely digital form, they then get converted to an analog singal in the video encoder. Similarly, a HDTV takes in the analog signal and converts it abck to digital, to control the screen itself.

I work at a comapny that designs audio amplifiers, I know first hand the effects of converting from analog to digital and back, you lose quality. Unlike digital signals, there is a degree of uncertainty in an analog signal, and it often does not get correctly interpreted on the other end.

However, if you have a straight digital signal from the output device all the way to the TV, you are certian that the signal is getting there properly, without any distortion from outside sources, like RF interferance and other noise that plagues analog signals far worse than digital.

So, for the average joe, the difference is not that noticable, the data is the same (the onyl difference is the way it is transmitted), but for an A/V nut/audiophile like me, i can very easily see the diffrence

Anastrophe · « **Reply #73 on:** July 09, 2006, 12:24:00 AM »

it looks like a phone-cam pic to me - which, if you think about it, is probably why it's flipped horizontaly (mirror image is a standard option on most phones)

DrTek · « **Reply #74 on:** July 09, 2006, 12:30:00 AM »

I love myself for NOT buying every next-gen console right from the start.
It always pays out in the end. I am pretty sure M$ WILL integrate HD-DVD
and HDMI in the next "facelift" of the 360 - they have to.

I bought my Xbox 1 4 four years after its release and I am enjoying a full hacked,
super scene-supported console with tons and tons of games.

Just my 2-Cents!

Tek

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