Topic: Widescreen And 480p (Read 42 times)

Mr Ed · « **on:** August 09, 2004, 06:09:00 PM »

Well, so is your XBOX displaying things right but your TV isn't? I think it's a pretty common problem to have to change the aspect ratio of the TV manually to match whatever the game comes up as.

reactions · « **Reply #1 on:** August 10, 2004, 01:11:00 AM »

hmm - its ur tv - enable it on auto change aspect ratio - whatever feeed it gets from the xbox it will change for u -
i have no problem with my toshiba widescreen - is ur tv a hdtv widescreen or is it one of those old 3:4 tvs - most companies have discontinued that old shit -

hope that helps - 720p kicks butt!

Yesdear · « **Reply #2 on:** July 11, 2005, 07:21:00 AM »

I just purchased the same Sony TV (34" though) and found out if you turn on 480p in the dashboard the 16:9 flag sent by games to the TV will not be sent. I have set mine to the following:

480p no, 720p yes, 1080i yes.

Now 16:9 games display in 16:9 and 4:3 games display 4:3. As mentioned above, you know you are displaing 720p or 1080i if you can not change the screen settings or DRC settings.

zdman · « **Reply #3 on:** July 11, 2005, 08:51:00 AM »

I have the same problem with my xbox and my 55" Sony Wega. I also had to set my 480p to off. The good news is, on my tv, I can really tell no difference between 480p and 480i and I would much rather have 480i and widescreen over 480p and standard screen. I think the sony does a conversion on all signals anyway before sending them to the screen, maybe that is why I notice little difference. For what it is worth, I have also noticed that my cheap dvd player shows now difference in picture quality either when I set it to 480i vs 480p. By the way, I think the problem you are seeing is just a bug in the xbox and it is not really set up properly to provide 480p in a 16X9 format.

Mr Ed · « **Reply #4 on:** July 11, 2005, 10:12:00 AM »

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