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Darkness_au

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Xbox Looks Crappy On My Video Projector !?
« on: May 08, 2005, 07:15:00 PM »

Hi all..

I have a high end video/data DLP LCD projector..  its a HP VP6120

Anyway..   watching movies on the projector looks perfect..   but when I hook my Xbox up to it the text and games look blurry and fuzzy..

And no matter what I do I cant get it to look nice..

And with this projector it should look much nicer..

I have PAL Xbox running in PAL60 and using the latest UnleashX Dashboard.

Any info ?

Thanks.
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cloudhead

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« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2005, 03:10:00 AM »

What are you using to play the movies? maybe you have a progressive scan DVD player and that's why the xbox looks poor in comparison. You can get progressive scan/Hi-Def output from the xbox but you need to flash the eeprom to NTSC and buy a Hi-Def AV pack. (M$ disabled Hi-Def for PAL xboxes hence the need to flash to NTSC)
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Darkness_au

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« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2005, 05:18:00 AM »

QUOTE(RobTheGob @ May 9 2005, 03:37 AM)
If you want to talk about "high end" projectors - they start at $15K and go up from there!
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Darkness_au

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« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2005, 07:36:00 PM »

But whats this about changing the resolution ???
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Mr Ed

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« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2005, 09:10:00 AM »

QUOTE(Darkness_au @ May 10 2005, 05:42 PM)
But whats this about changing the resolution ???
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Mr Ed

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« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2005, 09:14:00 AM »

QUOTE(Darkness_au @ May 9 2005, 03:24 AM)
Using a S-Video lead and whatever the Xbox resolution is by default.

Yea I have a Progressive DVD/MPEG4 DVD player hooked up via Componant cables for the best possible quality..


Ok, so you are comparing the image quality of a DVD player connected via component cables to the XBOX connected via S-Video, and can't understand why S-Video looks crappy?

That's like saying you don't understand why hitting yourself in the head with a hammer doesn't feel as good as making love to a beautiful woman!?  tongue.gif

Seriously, you'll need the High Def A/V pack to get progressive out and enable HD modes on the XBOX.  You will never be able to compare anything not connected via component video to your projector.

I can tell you are in a non-NTSC country by your questions.  Unfortunately MS didn't figure anyone would use HD outside NTSC land, so first, you'll have to import an MS Hi Def A/V pack.  Then flash your system to NTSC.  There's instructions here on all that, but be warned, that some non-NTSC games don't work well under NTSC, and then there's the question of how your projector would handle NTSC, etc. etc.
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« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2005, 01:28:00 PM »

QUOTE(Freddo14 @ May 11 2005, 10:46 AM)

and you dont need to "flash" anything to ntsc, ...
otherwise you need the enigmah video selector program, from the usual sources,


Uh, if the enigmah video selector program doesn't flash the XBOX to NTSC, what does it do exactly?  blink.gif
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Mr Ed

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« Reply #7 on: May 11, 2005, 04:38:00 PM »

QUOTE(Freddo14 @ May 11 2005, 02:14 PM)
it flips like one bit in the eeprom


That's all I meant when I said "flash"  beerchug.gif
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« Reply #8 on: May 11, 2005, 08:26:00 PM »

QUOTE(RobTheGob @ May 11 2005, 04:57 PM)
I was talking about the home theater market! Any projector under $3500 is considered low end, high end is two stacked $40K projectors...
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« Reply #9 on: May 11, 2005, 11:14:00 PM »

QUOTE(RobTheGob @ May 11 2005, 05:57 PM)
You will never get a very good picture using S.
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« Reply #10 on: May 13, 2005, 09:43:00 AM »

QUOTE(RobTheGob @ May 12 2005, 05:11 PM)
(laserdisc stores the video signal in a composite format, but virtually every other format stores the signal seperated).



Seriously?!  That explains why composite looked better than S-Video off my laserdisc player!!  I could never figure that out!  I blamed my TV!
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