Are You HD-less?

Do you have a hdtv? And if not do you still have a 360? [even a ps3 in the future]

With all this hype about hdtv, It still is only just breaking onto the market, while in 5-6 years everybody will have them, its now that matters.

Do you plan to get one? are you waiting? and do you really think spending a few grand on a tv is really worth it just for the nice picture?

Personaly, I dont have one, But I will in the future, one way or another.

Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Viva La Revolution! erm, I mean Viva La Wii!

I have one, but no 360 or sky/cable hd box... the only HD i get at the moment is via my pc out connection over dvi>hdmi cable... it' s nice though for the limited use i get from it.

But heck it make trailer like spidey 3 all the more nicer, luckily my tv was very cheap and overwise i would have waited some time before getting one. With all the new technology coming and advancements in existing ones, i' d say it' s better to wait. But on that same note... i guess there is always something better coming just around the corner.

NiGHTS into Dreamcast

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I don' t have or intend to purchase an HDTV in the nearest future but in september I' ll be getting a DiBoss 23" Wide HD PC monitor which I assume can be used for playing 360/PS3 games on.
But other than that I won' t get a new TV for a while as I' m really not much into this HD thing anyway. HD is a nice thing of course but I don' t find it worth the money.
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I didnt think much of it til I got an HDTV. Play Fight Night R3 to see the overwhelming difference. I got a fairly cheap TV with reletively good performance, but down the line I plan to get a bigger nicer one. 26in Widescreen under $600. I use it mostly with my 360 and laptop. TV show quality isnt great but then again its ot an HD signal.

I use a nice big CRT monitor with my 360. I wouldn' t even consider buying a HDTV right now, i' ll wait until they' re the norm and all the specs have been finalized etc.

When i DO buy one it' ll be a 1080p CRT though.

I bought a 30" Widescreen LG HD CRT w/1080i for 750 American when I got my 360.

Under 1000 with a great picture. I too didn' t think much of HD until I got one, and now pictures on SDTV' s just aren' t the same, which sounds kind of like a stupid statement I know!

I' m using my PC monitor at the moment too. It' s not ideal as the picture doesn' t really look its best with ghosting, washed out colours and occasional aspect ratio issues, but it' s better than my normal SDTV.

I' ve seen a couple of 24" widescreen LCD PC monitors that I' m interested in though. They' ve had some good reviews, the resolutions are 1200p, with great image quality, and dvi+component inputs. But I don' t think 720p will look that great as it' s not native, and I' d need some beastly dual gfx solution to run PC games at that res!

Still waiting for those LCD advances and SED to show up before I decide on a traditional living room HDTV though.

Well...

The thing is,as a long time pc gamer who has had played in so called " HD" for a long time i can say you this.

Low res game on a TV looks perfect,but on a PC they look just wrong...
Anyway im gonna buy myself a VGA cable for my 360 and use HD to my TFT LCD.

However in the future,dont know when the price cuts will come,i will ofc buy myself a HDTV.
But as it is today they are just to expensive and overpriced like hell.

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

I' ll buy a VGA cable on friday and try my 360 on a 19inch flatscreen monitor..

Is that big enough for HD?

Can it be any monitor, or a specific flat screen monitor..

There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.

a 19 inch flatscreen is often like a 20-21 normal monitor.

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

It can be any monitor with a vga input. Widescreen monitors don' t suffer from the aspect ratio issues though. And a monitor with a low repsonse time won' t suffer from ghosting. But the washed out colours are due to the vga cable I think, but it' s mostly ignorable.

I' ll buy a VGA cable on friday and try my 360 on a 19inch flatscreen monitor..

Is that big enough for HD?

Can it be any monitor, or a specific flat screen monitor..

19" is big enough and the games will look loads netter in 720p. Pick 1366×768 from the resolution menu and you won' t get any vertical stretching whatsoever and a nice 720p image.

19" is big enough and the games will look loads netter in 720p. Pick 1366×768 from the resolution menu and you won' t get any vertical stretching whatsoever and a nice 720p image.

Wooohoo! Screw the money I was going to use for Hi-def Tv... Drinks on me!

I' ll get HD Tv when they are cheaper and complete.

There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.

I have a big problem...

where the fuck is the sound supposed to come from? if i use my PC monitor...

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

RE: Are You HD-less? (in reply to QuezcatoL)


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I' ll buy a VGA cable on friday and try my 360 on a 19inch flatscreen monitor..

Is that big enough for HD?

Can it be any monitor, or a specific flat screen monitor..

19" is big enough and the games will look loads netter in 720p. Pick 1366×768 from the resolution menu and you won' t get any vertical stretching whatsoever and a nice 720p image

you guys make me feel depressed

ORIGINAL: QuezcatoL

I have a big problem...

where the fuck is the sound supposed to come from? if i use my PC monitor...

You need speakers with an audio in socket.

Hmmm...dont think i have that on my 5.1 surround system... :(

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

This is what you get...



...and you' ll get an RCA adapter too like this...



...so the red + white cables in image one fit into the RCA adapter and then you plug that into your audio in socket and you' re away.

ah k.

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

**hugs Quez**

*Wants to kill f3hunter*

There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.

Oooooooooooh, show us JSR on that thing!

So does..






All come as standard with the official VGA cable M$ are releasing??

Or rather HAVE released..

There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.

Yep.

You also get a VGA gender changer...



...in case you don' t have a VGA ' in' and are using a CRT that has only VGA ' out'

If you' re using a TFT then you' ll likely have a VGA ' in' socket and won' t need the adapter.

All YOU will need is speakers that have an audio in socket.

(i' d like to thank locopuyo for helping ME get all of this sorted pain free)

Yes i have a TFT and doesnt need that

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

Don' t you also get an optical (toslink) cable with the VGA cable, to hook up to an optical input if you' ve got one. I think that' s the only way to get 5.1.

I' m thinking of getting an X-Fi Fatality soundcard for my PC, which has an optical in on an external box. That way I can hook up the 360 to my 5.1 PC speakers too.

I' ve got one HD TV, but I want to use that ps3 multi-screen thing although it will probably only be used in like 2 dodgy games.. but yeah.. thewy should make it so u can run one screen off the HD out and the other off regular RCA, but i know they won' t:( ...how i know is i' m not quite sure

Don' t you also get an optical (toslink) cable with the VGA cable, to hook up to an optical input if you' ve got one

I don' t think so. I definately didn' t. loco knows more than i do though.

Its already been stated that sony ended that dual output thing

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

oh really?
sorry...

that' s a bummer though... gotta love useless gimmicks

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Don' t you also get an optical (toslink) cable with the VGA cable, to hook up to an optical input if you' ve got one

I don' t think so. I definately didn' t. loco knows more than i do though.

Ah ok maybe it' s just the joytech one that bundle those then. That' s the one I' ve got, however I didn' t get any of those other adapters you showed (the phono and vga adpater).

I don' t think those toslink cables aren' t that expensive anyway though. But the X-Fi is!

Except for the 14 inch monitor I' m hacking away on now, I am High-Def Free, and for the time being, that' s okay. I' ve got no 360, no HD-DVD player, and no PC games that would benefit from HD.

Its already been stated that sony ended that dual output thing

Actually, the secret is, that Sony stole some technology from a small company that designs hardware for dual-output HD. They lost the legal battle, and to cover it up, they' re just saying it' s not possible.

Oh, sorry, am I getting my dumb lawsuits mixed up again?

for dual-output HD. They lost the legal battle, and to cover it up, they' re just saying it' s not pos

lol:)
tell you what I' m going to miss the dual shock... i know thats a different thread so ill shut up

Im not HDless, i have a i got a 40" HDtv Samsung, its super cool! my 360 games gets so much nicer when playing on that screen, its awesome! :)

I have an HDTV. Does this make me a better person?

ORIGINAL: Joe Redifer

I have an HDTV. Does this make me a better person?

You' re perfectly likeable now. But, disclose the inch dimensions of the HDTV, and my
tune could change...

There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.

ORIGINAL: Tiz

ORIGINAL: Joe Redifer

I have an HDTV. Does this make me a better person?

But, disclose the inch dimensions of the HDTV, and my
tune could change...

Hila ri ous lol that made me laugh for some unknown reason.

Let' s not get into a " mine is bigger than yours" contest, okay kids!! Trust me on this one!

I have an HDTV. Does this make me a better person?

No, but it does make you a communist.

Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Viva La Revolution! erm, I mean Viva La Wii!