A MAJOR discovery (Standard def TV)

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This only applies to people who own an XBox 360 with a standard def TV. Not too sure if this is the case with HDTVs...

Call me stupid, but I made a WONDERFUL discovery last night that helped my XBox 360 look even better. I feel like a **** for only discovering this now. Listen up as this may help you too.

If you haven't noticed, the (grey) cable that runs from your XBox 360 to your TV splits into two, each with 3 ends on it. On one end is the Red, White and Yellow cables (Audio left, Audio right and Picture respectively). On the other end, the cables are Red, Green and Blue (these 3 are all picture cables).

If you currently have the yellow (picture) cable plugged in, the picture quality of your Xbox 360 is crap ! Pull it out. Instead use the Red, Green and Blue cables for your picture. Each coloured cable will plug into it's correctly coloured port at the back of your TV. Remember to leave the Red and White cable from the other end plugged in (as this is your sound) - you can just leave the Yellow port dangling. This way, the colours are split and everything looks sooooooooo much better on your TV. Remember, your XBox 360 won't display on the AV/AV2 channels now - keep going until you reach 'Component'. Please Note: This may not be the case with all TVs. You will notice that text is smoother, things are sharper and colours seem better looking.

If you already knew this, then I apologize. I only made this discovery late last night and thought I'd share my discovery and help some n00bs out. I've told people here at work (who never knew this either) and I have taught them something. *Sigh, now I can't wait to get home - I have to go back and play all my games again to see what they look like. :)

Corrected: Composite to Component (I have just been informed that composite is the one that puts all the colours on one single cable. It's the component cable that separates out the colours)
 
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Haven't heard of many standard TVs with composite in but yeah thats the preferred input for most high-def TVs as well.
 
Fudzy said:
Haven't heard of many standard TVs with composite in but yeah thats the preferred input for most high-def TVs as well.
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I think he's referring to the component video cables - but yeah - I havent seen [-]many[/-] any normal tv's with that either. Not to say they dont exist of course.
 
Some Samsung's have component inputs which is a cool option, sadly their native 1080i settings is only @ 50hz so its useless for the X360. It will work though @ 480p which is way better than the crappy SDTV settings you get with the s-video cable.

In other words the component connection in your TV gives is EDTV functionality. :)
 
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Nope, dont have those connections on my TV. I thought component connections are a new thing used mainly on HDTV's
 
Most newer larger TVs have component input. Most DVD players also offer this connectivity...
 
Hell ? what a discovery!

It is called RGB (Red, Green, Blue) component inputs.
 
lord_spaceman said:
Okay, now I'm a bit confused, but what ever the hell it's called, it really helps!
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Yeah, no unnecessary analog conversions to composite is the key. The "RGB" components are split

For Arf999 from your own source you did either not read nor understood
Neither do you seem to have the electronic knowledge on the subject. The TV or display still have RGB guns or LEDS. No matter what coding standard you use to get the analog signals there.

Technical
Examples of international component video standards are:

RS-170 RGB (525 lines, based on NTSC timings, now EIA/TIA-343)
RS-343 RGB (525, 625 or 875 lines)
STANAG 3350 Analogue Video Standard (NATO military version of RS-343 RGB)
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lord_spaceman said:
Okay, now I'm a bit confused, but what ever the hell it's called, it really helps!
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Make life simpler and call it component. The reference in the manual, pg 5, refers to it in the following way:

Connect the red, geen, and blue colour-banded video connectors on the HD AV cable to the corresponding colour inputs (Y, Cb/Pb, Cr/Pr) on your TV . . . . ​
 
froggytoo said:
Yeah, no unnecessary analog conversions to composite is the key. The "RGB" components are split

For Arf999 from your own source you did either not read nor understood
Neither do you seem to have the electronic knowledge on the subject. The TV or display still have RGB guns or LEDS. No matter what coding standard you use to get the analog signals there.
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It doesn't matter what the TV uses to display the image, if you put an RGB signal into a "Component" input you will get a very strange picture. You are the one that seems confused.

"Component" on your TV or X-Box is NOT RGB. Simple. The only thing that is RGB is the colour of the plugs.

Know your facts before you try tell me I don't know mine... idiot.
 
Guys, guys, guys, who the hell cares what it's called. The fact is, the Xbox 360 looks better if you do it. I will go so far as to say, it name gets upgraded to the SeXbox 360 if you use the RGB cables (component, composite, confetti, congregate, colgate - whatever.).
 
LG 54cm and 72cm flat screen models generally have it. Same for Sony. Looks like the same applies to Philips.

Although they make the plugs red, green and blue that isn't what is actually running though the cables. SCART uses actual RGB. It makes no quality difference though - RGB and component are equal. Composite is horrible and once you've seen s-video or component you'll be horrified at how bad composite is.

Makro sells that Philips for R1400.
 
here is the greatest special ever. R2700 for an HDtv (sinoteq) from Game. I'm buying mine come the end of the month.
 
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