HDTV and 360 Problem??

Zlax45 · Post by **Zlax45** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 2:19 pm

I just got a 37 inch HDTV and hooked up the 360 to the television. I set everything up inside the 360 for the HDTV like 720 p and 1080 i but I tried to play three games of APF and everytime it froze up. The first two times were in the first quarter while the final time was in the fourth. I have never had any freezing issues with my 360 before. Could I be missing something?

Post by **ScoopBrady** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 3:01 pm

Is the adapter that plugs into the 360 on HD or SD?

Zlax45 · Post by **Zlax45** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 4:58 pm

ScoopBrady wrote:Is the adapter that plugs into the 360 on HD or SD?

It is on HDTV....I just played Gears for over an hour and it played fine. The cable guy came over to take care of the HDTV so I could get High-Def Red Sox and ESPN. He put the connector into the Component slot on the TV as I had it in the AV slot...Hopefully the problem is fixed...

BTW 720p or 1080i...which one is better? 1080 looks better but is there really a difference...

Sorry, I am just new to this HD stuff.

jondiehl · Post by **jondiehl** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 5:40 pm

Stick with 720p if you have a digital display (ie. 720p LCD or DLP).

If it's a CRT based (tube) HDTV, then put it on 1080i.

K_Mosley · Post by **K_Mosley** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 5:49 pm

I have a 51" CRT, and I use 1080i, hooked up via HDMI. The only problem I run into is that my display occasionally distorts; it shifts to one side, or the color changes, or it goes blank. It usually only happens with EA games. It usually fixes itself after a second or two, but if it doesn't, I just have to change my input to something else then back to HDMI, then it's fine.

I tried turning off some of the HDTV options (noise reduction, etc.), and that seemed to help a little. I can't quite figure out what it is, but it's got to be some kind of compatibility problem between the 360 and the settings on my TV. At least, that's what I think. I'm not too worried about it, as there haven't been any adverse affects. It's just occasionally annoying...

Kevin

Zlax45 · Post by **Zlax45** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 6:27 pm

I have a 37 inch Vizio...What is the reason for keeping it in 720? just wondering

jondiehl · Post by **jondiehl** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 6:37 pm

Zlax45 wrote:I have a 37 inch Vizio...What is the reason for keeping it in 720? just wondering

1) 720p is the native resolution of your display, so you want your 360 (and any other source) to output 720p so that the video does not have to be scaled.

2) 360 games are rendered in 720p. Even though the 360 supports 1080i output, it makes sense to have the console do less work converting a 720p game to anything other than that (unless you have a 1080i display, in which case try it both ways to see if the 360 or the HDTV does a better job converting it).

Zlax45 · Post by **Zlax45** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 7:19 pm

jondiehl wrote:
Zlax45 wrote:I have a 37 inch Vizio...What is the reason for keeping it in 720? just wondering
1) 720p is the native resolution of your display, so you want your 360 (and any other source) to output 720p so that the video does not have to be scaled.

2) 360 games are rendered in 720p. Even though the 360 supports 1080i output, it makes sense to have the console do less work converting a 720p game to anything other than that (unless you have a 1080i display, in which case try it both ways to see if the 360 or the HDTV does a better job converting it).

Sorry for filling up this thread...

My tv has a listed resolution of 720p but is compatible with 1080i...The Cable guy came today and set up the TV and put the Cable Box into the component slot so I have been watching HD all day and the TV shows 1080i as the resolution of the TV.

Zeppo · Post by **Zeppo** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 7:25 pm

Zlax45 wrote:
jondiehl wrote:
Zlax45 wrote:I have a 37 inch Vizio...What is the reason for keeping it in 720? just wondering
1) 720p is the native resolution of your display, so you want your 360 (and any other source) to output 720p so that the video does not have to be scaled.

2) 360 games are rendered in 720p. Even though the 360 supports 1080i output, it makes sense to have the console do less work converting a 720p game to anything other than that (unless you have a 1080i display, in which case try it both ways to see if the 360 or the HDTV does a better job converting it).
Sorry for filling up this thread...

My tv has a listed resolution of 720p but is compatible with 1080i...The Cable guy came today and set up the TV and put the Cable Box into the component slot so I have been watching HD all day and the TV shows 1080i as the resolution of the TV.

1080i that the TV is showing is the resolution the TV is receiving from your cable box. You can set your cable box to only output 720p. However, it is likely that your TV does a better job of scaling a 1080i signal to 720p than the cable box. Not certain, but likely.

The TV can only display images in its native resolution. That is, it only has a set number of pixels, so whatever it displays will be displayed in that resolution. It can, however, accept signals in a variety of resolutions (480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i) and will convert that signal using its scaler to show it on the screen. Again, it's likely the scaler in the TV will do a better job than the one in the cable box, but you can check that yourself by setting your cable box to output only 720p and seeing if you see a difference on channels that show 1080i (pretty much everything except the ABC family including ESPNHD and ESPN2HD).

Hope that clears it up a little.

Zlax45 · Post by **Zlax45** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 7:30 pm

Zeppo wrote:
Zlax45 wrote:
jondiehl wrote: 1) 720p is the native resolution of your display, so you want your 360 (and any other source) to output 720p so that the video does not have to be scaled.

2) 360 games are rendered in 720p. Even though the 360 supports 1080i output, it makes sense to have the console do less work converting a 720p game to anything other than that (unless you have a 1080i display, in which case try it both ways to see if the 360 or the HDTV does a better job converting it).
Sorry for filling up this thread...

My tv has a listed resolution of 720p but is compatible with 1080i...The Cable guy came today and set up the TV and put the Cable Box into the component slot so I have been watching HD all day and the TV shows 1080i as the resolution of the TV.
1080i that the TV is showing is the resolution the TV is receiving from your cable box. You can set your cable box to only output 720p. However, it is likely that your TV does a better job of scaling a 1080i signal to 720p than the cable box. Not certain, but likely.

The TV can only display images in its native resolution. That is, it only has a set number of pixels, so whatever it displays will be displayed in that resolution. It can, however, accept signals in a variety of resolutions (480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i) and will convert that signal using its scaler to show it on the screen. Again, it's likely the scaler in the TV will do a better job than the one in the cable box, but you can check that yourself by setting your cable box to output only 720p and seeing if you see a difference on channels that show 1080i (pretty much everything except the ABC family including ESPNHD and ESPN2HD).

Hope that clears it up a little.

Thanks for the help guys.