Xbox360 - writing in games?!

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Ive hooked up my xbox360 to a normal 74cm LG flatron TV, but the problem is reading tutorials and instructions in games in really irritating, as it is blurred!
Kinda putting me off the whole experience completely, i know the obvious answer would be too get a LCD.
But with normal TV's is Xbox quality really that poor when it comes to the small letters? And I dont know if this has anything to do with it, my TV has vaguely got waves going down and up the screen. (with Xbox)
Hooked it up wrong? Setting problem? Cos its flashed?
Thanks.
 
hasn't it got something to do with the setting where you have a choice between 60mhz and 70mzh (or something like that .... tis late and /me s tired). Most games won't look correct on one of those settings.
 
Blah said:
Ive hooked up my xbox360 to a normal 74cm LG flatron TV, but the problem is reading tutorials and instructions in games in really irritating, as it is blurred!
Kinda putting me off the whole experience completely, i know the obvious answer would be too get a LCD.
But with normal TV's is Xbox quality really that poor when it comes to the small letters? And I dont know if this has anything to do with it, my TV has vaguely got waves going down and up the screen. (with Xbox)
Hooked it up wrong? Setting problem? Cos its flashed?
Thanks.
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Eh? I have no such problems. Probably a setting you missed, as mephisto said, maybe take a look at your PAL settings.

Does your tv have component inputs? Because if it has, make sure to use them, I can see a definite difference between component and composite on my 54cm crt.

Good luck :D
 
Buy yourself a VGA cable and hook it up to your computer monitor, that will give you a good indication if its the console or the screen. Unfortunately, at the end of my 74cm TV's life I noticed more and more titles didn't have 480p support. Although I doubt you would know this seeing as you'd actually have to OWN the game and the box it comes in to find this information out :P
 
Xbox def works better on a LCD ve CRT , having said that the CRT should be clear. Check your 60mhz vs 70 mhz settings.

PS - if you do go LCD make sure you change your settings on your Xbox , I recently only discovered this and the diffs is amazing.
 
check the 60 hz vs 70 hz settings and if you can - get a vga cable - 3rd party ones are R184 through kalahari - ms one is about R340 - but they are cheaper through zaps.co.za

I played mass effect on a normal tv and then hooked it up on to the lcd 0 there is a remarkable difference - the biggest differences is the writing and little blips on your radar actually are little things not just blips. :D
 
That's PAL50 versus PAL60 guys.

Check for that setting. If it's a reasonably new and has component (the 3 coloured cables not the one yellow one) use that at 480p60.

Alternatively some games just have small text, like Dead rising.
 
Ive just hooked it up thru the front ports on the TV, u guys saying I should set it up thru the back?
Im pretty sure it just wouldnt work with PAL60.
 
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The front ports on your tv would be composite. That is 2x audio (red & white), 1x video (yellow).
See if your TV supports component. That's 2x audio (red & white), and 3x video (red, green & blue). Rather hook your xbox up with that, the picture will be MUCH better.
 
update : set up thru the back and component, pal60 and in widescreen, changed Tv to 16:9, looks way better, some games the writing is still horrible tho. But otherwise an all round better result.
THANKS
 
Yea ... like that friggen mobile phone in GTA4 ;)
 
Games I've found to give 480p the middle finger the most -

Mass Effect (the text in the inventory details)
Burnout: Paradise City (The icons on the map detailing what sort of event it is)

Anyone else?
 
yeah i def agree with u about mass effect, havent played the other.
 
ME wasn't so bad for me, I just looked at the pretty colours ;)

Absolutely agree about Burnout!

I think Project Sylpheed and Dead Rising are the other two big offenders.
 
Blah said:
update : set up thru the back and component, pal60 and in widescreen, changed Tv to 16:9, looks way better, some games the writing is still horrible tho. But otherwise an all round better result.
THANKS
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You set it to widescreen? Do you have a widescreen TV? just saying, because usually CRT TV's are not widescreen, they are 4:3. Which translates to 16:12 opposed to 16:9 which would be the usual aspect ratio for widescreen TV's.

I'm not sure what happen when you choose widescreen on a 4:3 TV, but I would imagine that it may either be the letterbox effect where it fits it to your TV, something like pan scan with DVD players, where you don't get the full picture, IOW, the parts of the image that "don't fit" gets cut off. Will check it out a bit later and give feedback. :)
 
Who would agree, the age of CRT monitors are over when it comes to the current generation of consoles? The marketers of the Xbox and PS3 would like you to believe you can still use them but this isn't really the case.
 
sludge said:
You set it to widescreen? Do you have a widescreen TV? just saying, because usually CRT TV's are not widescreen, they are 4:3. Which translates to 16:12 opposed to 16:9 which would be the usual aspect ratio for widescreen TV's.

I'm not sure what happen when you choose widescreen on a 4:3 TV, but I would imagine that it may either be the letterbox effect where it fits it to your TV, something like pan scan with DVD players, where you don't get the full picture, IOW, the parts of the image that "don't fit" gets cut off. Will check it out a bit later and give feedback. :)
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I tried it, it just cuts off the extra.
When you guys say to use the cable with 2xsound and 3xvideo where do you put your 1 video cable in ?
 
Thats with only 1video but i'm wondering about composite using 3 video
 
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