Xbox Component Cable

[Mavix]

I am currently using a composite cable for my Xbox 360, on a SD TV. I have read here and there on the internets that component cables will give an increase in quality, even on 480i. Is this true?
I once tried to “test” this by using component cables instead of composite on my DVD player. The menu of the DVD player itself did actually look better, but there was no noticeable improvement in movies.
So is it worth it to get the component cable? And what do they cost?

 

[Dolby]

I actually just posted last night in the DSTV section :

About 10 years, I had a Pace DSTV decoder (output composite, s-video and RGB) and 74cm CRT (input composite, s-video and RGB).

I tried the different settings and found s-video pretty close to composite. RGB on the otherhand, made a huge (relative) difference.

On a normal TV, whites were whiter (select something predominantly white on the Xbox) and colours more vivid. There was less bleed between colours too. As you say, the DSTV menu was sharper and more readable.

In a nutshell, it should help on a 480 resolution screen

 

[Mavix]

I actually just posted last night in the DSTV section :

About 10 years, I had a Pace DSTV decoder (output composite, s-video and RGB) and 74cm CRT (input composite, s-video and RGB).

I tried the different settings and found s-video pretty close to composite. RGB on the otherhand, made a huge (relative) difference.

On a normal TV, whites were whiter (select something predominantly white on the Xbox) and colours more vivid. There was less bleed between colours too. As you say, the DSTV menu was sharper and more readable.

In a nutshell, it should help on a 480 resolution screen

Ah cool thanks. Another thing that I noticed was that there's too much red in the image. I can fix that on the TV itself but then the other colours are too faded...

 

[isie]

I am currently using a composite cable for my Xbox 360, on a SD TV. I have read here and there on the internets that component cables will give an increase in quality, even on 480i. Is this true?
I once tried to “test” this by using component cables instead of composite on my DVD player. The menu of the DVD player itself did actually look better, but there was no noticeable improvement in movies.
So is it worth it to get the component cable? And what do they cost?

it is much better since the cable split the signal in 3 (quick explanation, sync info, blue and red) as aposed to composite were all the informaton is sent through one thin cable and even if you have a normal CRT tv yes you can make a discernable increase in picture quality, and cost is about R270.

but realy cant compare it to an HD signal

 

[TheViperZA]

if you hav a hdtv VGA gives the best picture from xbox than both component and HDMi.
component is better than HDMI too.
But sound is better on HDMi then with RGB.

 

[noxibox]

For my TVs s-video definitely looked better than composite for both games and DVDs, and component was noticeably better than s-video.

if you hav a hdtv VGA gives the best picture from xbox than both component and HDMi.
component is better than HDMI too.
But sound is better on HDMi then with RGB.

This all seems to be TV dependant. On some component looks better than HDMI, on others vice-versa. Same for VGA versus the others.

HDMI versus SPDIF, well that depends on your sound system too.

 

[HerZeLeiD]

For my TVs s-video definitely looked better than composite for both games and DVDs, and component was noticeably better than s-video.


This all seems to be TV dependant. On some component looks better than HDMI, on others vice-versa. Same for VGA versus the others.

HDMI versus SPDIF, well that depends on your sound system too.

Saw component on 2 HDTV's and it's terrible. It's hard to describe, it looks like everything is "painted" and there's lots of jaggies. The colors are also exaggerated. It only looks good when you sit really far from the TV. VGA gives a more PC game like look and a lot less jaggies.

 

[sinj]

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[noxibox]

Saw component on 2 HDTV's and it's terrible. It's hard to describe, it looks like everything is "painted" and there's lots of jaggies. The colors are also exaggerated. It only looks good when you sit really far from the TV. VGA gives a more PC game like look and a lot less jaggies.

If component is terrible, then there is something seriously wrong with the TVs or the source's processing. There should not be more aliasing or huge differences in colour. Of course I could interpret the above as component had nice vibrant colours while the VGA was dull.

Fact remains that one input format cannot be universally said to look better than others.