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[saunders73]

i just got a new Samsung SyncMaster 216BW 22 inch monitor today ($229   ) and when i hook up my xbox 360 to it via vga, it looks like plain ass. like a stretched 640x480. no matter what resolution i set the xbox to. the monitor is native 1650x1000, which is not in the list of output for the xbox, but the monitor can scale. it is not a problem with the monitor, it looks great on my pc right now. i believe the culprit is the cable. i have a 3rd party "I-Con VGA Cable", it looked pretty good quality, gold plated and such but... any ideas? thanks

[shmigadiga]

just because it is gold plated on the outside does not change the crap inner cable that is wrapped in rubber.  i personally ebay'ed a monster gamelink vga cable and i use it on my 19 inch monitor.  just in case i get anything bigger, i know that the cable can keep up and still provide kick ass quality.

[ntloser]

QUOTE(saunders73 @ Dec 26 2007, 03:25 PM)

i just got a new Samsung SyncMaster 216BW 22 inch monitor today ($229   ) and when i hook up my xbox 360 to it via vga, it looks like plain ass. like a stretched 640x480. no matter what resolution i set the xbox to. the monitor is native 1650x1000, which is not in the list of output for the xbox, but the monitor can scale. it is not a problem with the monitor, it looks great on my pc right now. i believe the culprit is the cable. i have a 3rd party "I-Con VGA Cable", it looked pretty good quality, gold plated and such but... any ideas? thanks

Part of the problem is your monitor is "scaling" because the 360 doesn't support the native res. If you can find a monitor capable of 1920x1080 native to even 1280x1024, and set your 360 accordingly, it will look pimp!

[oobymach]

Microsoft vga will help alot, it's shielded and third party ones aren't. Also samsung monitors have some stupid features like "RTA" I think it is, turn that off because it makes anything moving especially games look like crap. Also set the res to 1360x768.

[saunders73]

thanks for the replies, i set it to 1360x768, no difference. i do not see a setting for RTA, and a good search prooved useless. the picture still looks very washed out, and not as sharp as it should be. and the text has a big of ghosting, but thats not a big deal

[oobymach]

One other thing is to check reference levels on the xbox. Where you set resolution, set reference to maximum or whatever and it'll make colors look crisper and brighter.

[alsybub]

Another thing is that a lot of screens that are not predominantly a pc monitor tend to present VGA badly.

[SphtKr76]

If you are getting ghosting in the text, thats a good sign of a crap cable. Try a different brand, you can't go wrong with the official MS version.

[Bandit5317]

QUOTE(SphtKr76 @ Dec 29 2007, 09:52 PM)

If you are getting ghosting in the text, thats a good sign of a crap cable. Try a different brand, you can't go wrong with the official MS version.

Yup, a crappy vga cable will definetely cause ghosting. The MS one is good, aswell as monster, and psyclone is probably another good one. I don't own a psyclone vga cable, but I own one of their component cables for the original xbox and it works fantastically. I know the vga cable can be had at target for about $18 and it looks good with gold plating and it's thick. It's also a lot cheaper than the ms cable. I also want to thank you for making my day with the name of the topic . It's kinda like when Bungie says "the build is broken."