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makaveli91

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General Question About Wireless And High Def
« on: October 12, 2006, 11:50:00 AM »

I've been hearing from a few of my brothers buddies that the wireless controller isn't very good to use.  Has anyone else had any problems with the wireless controllers?  Is there much lag or anything like that?  

I was also wondering if there is a HDMI connection on the 360.
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PhatheadWRX

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« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2006, 12:09:00 PM »

no lag, wireless are great.  plenty of warning before batteries die

no HDMI (yet).  but can output 1080p over VGA if your monitor/TV accepts it
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makaveli91

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« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2006, 03:00:00 PM »

Sweet.  Thanks for the info.  Yeah, i just bought a 62' DLP that has 1080p, so before i go blow any more money, i wanted to see if my HDMI cable would be compatible..
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PhatheadWRX

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« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2006, 03:06:00 PM »

Just make sure the screen has a VGA input and you will deffinately be set
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« Reply #4 on: October 13, 2006, 01:17:00 PM »

depends on the wireless controller. After having problems with 1 of mine and spending some time reading and then calling 1-800-4my-xbox i talked to a man named alan. He was nice, and insisted he had never HEARD of a wireless controller losing connection to the xbox with a full battery. I informed him it happens to my console, and on other peoples with the 1 problimatic controller i own, and i have tried several if not all of the things i could search from the web to fix my problem, which was of course, full battery disconnects, and it was not a time interval thing, it was a person to person, it was almost as if someone mashed 2 or 3 buttons at once, the controller would disconnect instantly, and the game would freeze with the reconnect controller msg and most of the time(we were playing sports games) it would be the select sides screen automatically. What i did notice was that it was happening to different people differently. Like i can play for 10 minutes and be fine, but some friends it disconnects on them every 20 seconds. After alan insisted that he had never heard of this, and asking me such questions as "do i have the batteries in the right way" etc etc, he then went back on his "i have never heard of this and i have worked here a long time" to "well, it is probably the battery pack, it's not making or loosing connection with the controller itself at the back" which to me, seems that they are acknowledging a known issue of bad battery packs/design.  He told me to return it to the store(i bought it seperatly) and gave me a referance number, said to call bakc in if i had problems. I told him i would probably have issues since i have no receipt or packaging(as they make it IMPOSSIBLE to get outta that plastic they come in).  Anyway, be careful is the thing i am trying to say, as myself and others it seems have gotten bad batches of wireless controllers.
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EvilBoris

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« Reply #5 on: October 13, 2006, 01:34:00 PM »

No lag at all,

as for HDMI, the 360 doesn't use it and probably won't unless they bring out a newer model at sometime.

Better of using VGA anyway as HDMI will suffer from picture processing on most sets and may look worse/suffer from processing lag.
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