LCD monitor and 360

[beele]

I know it's possible, and tomorrow I'll be getting my cable to hook it up to the LCD screen. My only question was the resolution. My new screen its native resolution is 1680 by 1050 pix, will my 360 and that VGA cable support it?

[=sw=warlord]

might support 1600x1000 but a odd resolution like that i doubt it.

[Limited]

The cable does exactly what it is supposed to: it will output games at 640×480, 848×480, 1024×768, 1280×720, 1280×768, 1280×1024, and 1360×768 resolution. However there are drawbacks.

If your monitor has a 4:3 aspect ratio (square not widescreen), running in a resolution higher than 640x480 will cause either very large letterboxing (black bars at the top and bottom of the screen) as there is no 360 support for high resolutions in 4:3.

[JunkfoodMan]

Your monitor will support the resolutions lower than 1080p, and the fall update will include support for 1680x1050 res.
I also have a 1680x1050 monitor, and the 360 still looks great at 1360×768, so yeah, get the VGA cable.

[beele]

K thanks, is there an exact release date for this fall update?

[jcap]

Probably end of November, marking their birthday and "rebirth" of the console.

[Lateksi]

I have a 1920x1200 LCD and a HDMI cable. Looks awesome with only little letterboxing because of the resolution.

[Atty]

I have a 1680x1050 Monitor and my 360 going via VGA, I have my VGA resolution set to 1920x1080 (which, Limited, is the max res, not 13x7) and it looks great. I used to run it on 13x7 but it didn't look as crisp on the monitor, so I upped it ant it's fine.

Your only problems will be you'll see circles as slight ovals, nothing serious, you will probably not even notice it unless you actually look for it.

Sometime this Fall Microsoft will release the new update for the 360 which will unlock 16x10 resolutions (1440x900, 1680x1050) over VGA/HDMI/Whatever else supports custom resolutions.

Also, you might want to adjust your color levels (whatever the name for it is, in the dashboard) to expanded or whatever the highest is, the VGA cable causes a bit of a washy color appearance on the 360 which is fixed by that setting, or not really fixed as much as compensated for.