Recently I purchased a sharp aqaus and discovered it has a vga port that also includes a aux hook to output sound into the tvs speaker. I tried using my 360 vga cables and it says that it can't recognize the signal. I am wondering if my tv will only accept a pc signal through the vga input or if there is a way it will accept my 360's vga cable. Also if not can it accept a dreamcast's vga signal?
My samsung LCD tv has the same kind of inputs but accepts any signal that's used like my laptop's vga out but also 360 vga cable. Doesn't it mention anything in the user manual of your tv ?
Probably doesn't recognise the resolution. Plug it into a monitor and set the res down to the minimum (i think 640*480), and then plug it into the aquos again and crank the resolution up till it stops working
Yep ED's right as I have an Aquas and it accepts VGA input from my 360, but up the resolution and it comes back 'No input signal'
There's no difference between the Xbox 360's VGA and your PCs. I agree with the idea that maybe it doesn't like the resolution you have on for default. Try 640x480. Use your PC monitor to set the resolution to that and shut down then switch over. If that doesn't work then I have no clue what it could be.
Don't forget to set the refresh rate to something like 50/60hz while plugged into the PC, most HDTV's (other than the new/expensive ones) won't take anything higher.
I read the manual. Turns out it only accepts 640x480 and 720x400. I hooked up the 360 to the monitor and set it at 640x480 and it worked. Does anyone know if the dreamcast vga displays at 640x480?
A lot when most tv's only support fixed types of resolution and refuse to display anything that deviates.
On my TV, the 360 takes a few seconds longer before it starts to load up when using VGA cables on the TV. Its fine on my monitor, however.
Dreamcast looks fantastic on my tv through the vga input. I was having blast playing tokyo xtreme/shutoko battle 2 and sega rally 2 back to back.
Indeed VGA rocks, as VGA = RGB which rocks. Blame those cheap bastards for all systems not having RGB as the standard hookup.
Probably because broadcast analog TV uses Composite Video I believe so I guess they figured that was good enough. From what I've heard the North American market has always been behind in TV input options until more modern times. You still can't get regular RGB input over here though. But Component Video was certainly nice. Doesn't really matter to me though since I decided to just buy a RGB monitor and fuck the TV bullshit.
