I always thought that you could get 1080P on the ' original' 360 as long as you TV was capable of it. If that is the case then what cables are best.

VGA only if i remember correctly.

I thought it was that, but couldn' t be 100%. Cheers Nitro

It can do it if your TV accepts 1080p over the component inputs. There is no technical reason why this can' t be done.

I use the component cables that were included for 1080p with my tv. It works flawlessly. I' ve had to use VGA on a different TV that didn' t support 1080p via component. Not all do.

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I' ve never been able to directly compare them because I' ve never used a 1080p TV with VGA that supports 1080p through component.

As far as I can tell there was no distortion or signal loss on either.

However, I' ve used a 720p tv that can take in a 1080p signal through component and downscale to its native resolution of 1366x768(or something) and it looked better than just sending the tv a 720p signal, but there seemed to be a slight amount of signal degragation(random pixels being grey sometimes). It looked best using VGA and sending it a 1366x768 signal.

I doubt there would be a difference if you had the choice between VGA and component with a native 1080p tv. You could just use component and if you are getting some degragation get the VGA adapter.

ok thanks guys, I was asking for a friend of mine who has just bought a 40" Bravia and he wasn' t able to get 1080P through his comp cables.