HDMI coming to all X360s... sort-of

Mad Catz are announcing a HDMI 1.3 kit for the Xbox360 for all users for release in March.

What they are doing is taking the analogue signal converts it into HDMI, rather than converting DV-I.

Price: £49.99 in the UK.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/gaming/a89366/xbox-360-kit-to-offer-hdmi-to-all-users.html

 

that's pointless. if the signal goes thru the DAC and then back into a ADC then it's like a cow regurgitates its food

 

50 pounds for that? What a waste.

 

I fail to See how HDMI is a step up from Component other than it being a digital signal anyway.

 

it depends on your display GoH.

I can tell the difference between the two at same resolutions. HDMI looks crisper, because it carries the pixel products 1:1, actually depicting the framebuffer in a 100% accuracte state.

Component and VGA go thru DAC and then back into ADC ANYWAY on LCD /pixel matrix monitors.

 

This product is misleading, surprisingly the uproar from the day the prototype pics of the new HDMI ports were leaked to now are not that significant.

Either way its because M$ wants to give consumers a choice

 

On my TV, component sucks, VGA is awesome sharp but has weaker colors, and HDMI has both. You know though, I dunno if it's just my display or what, but some older game text and stuff on 360 look a little jaggier because there so sharp. Or something.

 

On my TV the Mega Drive looks far better via composite than via the MD XRGB-2 box ! I couldn't belive how shit it looked via the XRGB-2 Box. The Super Famicom on the other hand looks God awful through composite yet very good via S-Video as long as you set the TV in to "natural" mode. Put it in to Progressive mode however and it looks very sharp but also a load of crap since every line seems to break up.

All these HD TVs make a mess of something or other. I really do miss the simple days of pure RGB on my British Toshiba.

Yakumo

 

it's best to play every console on their best contemporary option. I think a solid CRT is the answer for anything PS2 and back.

 

Yup!

 

But in 10 years time CRT TV sets won't be easy to fine in great working order, that's for sure !

I know a Korean company found away of making cheap RGB compatable CRT sets with a much slimmer tube than what we all know. A Japanese news program did a feature on them last year. The tube is said to be 30% shorter/smallert han the one we all know and use today.

Maybe a Korean member could find out more?

Yakumo

 

I actually own one they're out in the states actually or were. LG and Samsung made/Makes them.

 

I can't understand the multiple motherboards that MS are producing, financially it makes no sense. Unless all motherboards now have HDMI and there is a massive stockpile of old motherboards that they need to get rid of.

 

either option B u mentioned Jim, or they have running contracts for production.

 

All 360 packages I've seen for sale recently have HDMI, even the cheap "Arcade" bundle. They've probably already cleared out the old stock considering how fast they sell.

 

It does, however, mean that when a machine comes in for repairs it doesn't have to have a completely new chassis, completely new case, etc. just to get it to fit (although it's probably easier to replace the whole lot what with soldering and all that).

 

Well if the rumors coming from MS ex-employees are true then we could assume engineers are desperately trying to come up with a better motherboard, even if that means shipping before any serious testing is done to it.

 

engineers are never desperate, they re paid to engineer. It's the people who manage them that push engineers.

 

I think that a guy with 2 kids and a mortage, when his manager yells at him saying its going to fire his ass if he cant come up with a solution, must be somewhat nervous, dont you think?

 

not really, considering that they can't afford to swap engineers this far into a project.