Are there any good adapters for xbox360 to a monitor?

[shadowraith6]

What I am wondering is if there is an inexpensive way to convert VGA to the xbox's hdtv cables. (sub $100) I heard that many of these adapters are low resolution and do not show text well. Does anyone know where I can get a good, cheap adapter, so I can play xbox using my monitor (hopefuly HD?)

Thanks!

[shadowraith6]

ALSO if there is a convertyer that does NOT require the PC? So I can just have the monitor and game system and nothing else?

Thanks

[Quinn]

there is a vga cable made specifically for the xbox 360

http://hardware.teamxbox.com/reviews...D-AV-Cable/p1/

[shadowraith6]

Thanks! The looks like the best solution if I was to only use the 360. Which I might end up doing. If I wanted to use regular xbox, nintendo 64, Game Cube, is there a universal adapter? (HD or not HD)

Thanks

[milihpen]

For Xbox and Gamecube, as well as the 360, you can use the adapter found on www.vdigi.com, provided your games are in 480p or higher, and you have component cables. If not, then you'll have to consider a composite scaler or something.

[shadowraith6]

Has anyone used this adapter? How is it? Does it work for vhs player, dvd player as well as gaming consoles?

Plus, it is not in stock at the company store. Are there any alternatives? (play xbox on monitor without the necessity of a computer, sub $100)

Thanks

[milihpen]

Lik-sang sells this thing
http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?cat...ducts_id=4233&
which I believe is pretty much the same thing. I haven't read any feedback on it, but it looks as good as the others, for less money.

There's this one, too: http://www.x2vga.com/

Unfortunately, that x2vga ONLY works with your Xbox. The others will, once again, work with ANY device that can output component video at resolutions higher than 480i (in other words, 480p, 720p, and 1080i work). On some monitors, 480i will work, but not most.

To answer your previous question, these will amost certainly NOT work with your vhs player, as it probably doesn't have component outputs (if you don't know what component video is, it uses 3 cables (red, green and blue, usually) for video instead of just 1 cable.) Your DVD player, on the other hand, most likely does have component input if it's fairly recent, as well as progressive scan output.

Unfortunately, since the Xbox can't play DVD's in progressive scan without serious mods, these devices probably won't display DVD's played through your xbox, but they will display almost all of your games in HD. Here's a list of all the HD-enabled games, FIY:

http://www.hdtvarcade.com/xboxlist.htm

All of the games that show either 480p, 720p, or 1080i will work with these devices. The craptacular games that don't show any of those resolutions only display in 480i, and probably won't work (don't worry, though, Catwoman is basically the best of the incompatible games, with the exception of Hitman ).

[shadowraith6]

so nintendo 64 would be out of the question...?

[ChristmasGT]

there IS a gamecube VGA Adapter, I forgot who sells it, it was fairly cheap though.


If possible you could buy a VGA Switchbox and plug all your systems into it and viola you're good!


It wouldn't work on the 64, but it would give you the option for 480p on the cube


I'm not sure if a Sony VGA adapter exsists or not, but the 360 and Cube ones certainly do, heres a link to the Gamecube VGA Cable


http://www.aheadgames.com/xcart/cust...8&cat=0&page=1

[milihpen]

Originally posted by shadowraith6
so nintendo 64 would be out of the question...?

for those transcoders? that I listed, yes, you're right. An N64 will not work. However, a cheap video scaler like this

http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?cat...ducts_id=3235&

will work with N64, your VCR, et cetera.

Also, if you were so inclined to buy that for your VCR, N64, SNES, or other non-progressive source, as well as one of those transcoders I listed before for your HD sources (Xbox, some gamecube games, HD receiver), I think you can daisy-chain them together, so that they all run on your monitor's vga input. This should be possible since these devices have VGA passthroughs. You could connect your PC output to the video scaler's VGA passthrough, and your video scaler's output to your transcoder's passthrough, and your transcoder's output to your monitor. That way, you don't have to switch VGA cables every time you wanna use a different source.