Hey all, I'm looking to get a 19" widescreen LCD monitor (too poor to buy a 24") and connect it to my X360. I know several X360 owners here connect their X360 with their LCD monitors, so I have some questions to clear up before I take the plunge...

1) What do you use to connect your X360 to your monitor?? Seems that there are 3 ways: VGA cable, VGA box or TV Tuner. Is TV tuner really a good choice to connect your console to the monitor?

2) For widescreen, do you need to change any settings on the X360? I'm eyeing the VA1912wb which has a weird 16:10 aspect, so can the X360 support such a setting? Or must it strictly be 16:9 or 4:3??

3) Anyone know where I can get a VGA cable around here for the X360?

4) Oh, and since I'm doing this anyway, I might as well ask.....what the heck is that other cable (next to the X360 RCA cables) supposed to connect to?? I assume it's a HDTV connector, but I've honestly never seen one....so is it specifically for HDTVs only? Can this actually connect directly to LCD monitors by chance.....

5) I might as well add this one in just for the sake of it......

CRT or LCD?

This post has been edited by Darkchaser: Feb 23 2006, 09:53 PM

I think that's true for 3rd party VGA cable. Supposedly the official VGA cable is excellent. But the price is....aiyah....over RM100, which is quite pricey just for a cable....plus I don't think the official VGA cable is available around here.....

Interesting. I never would've thought that TV Tuner would be better than direct S-Video.

Oooh....be sure to report here how well your X360 looks on the widescreen

Very nice, what do you use to connect your X360 to your monitor? VGA Cable ka?

Sooo very tempting..... but if I get a widescreen LCD this month, no GRAW for me.... ahh.... choices, choices.....

Compuzone listed it at RM1350...but then again that was early Feb price....

Waiting for shumaky's review of the Viewsonic VA1912W, it's about the same price but comes with free TV tuner....

Damn, every time I look at chin's pictures of the CMV I get soooo tempted to go out and buy it straight away

No more free TV Tuner?

Credit card is always a hassle in small shops these days. Instead of getting a discount for paying with cash, these days you need to be charged an extra 3% or so just to cover their own credit card charges. Which is why I only use my cc in big shops and pay cash for others.

Credit card = convenience? Not in LYP

Ooooh.....very nice, so very tempting to go straight down to LYP to buy.....

Question...what cable do you use to connect your X360 to your 1912w? You said you're using Sub-D?

Damn.......buy this or GRAW + FNR3..... Decision time......

Official MS cable or 3rd party??

Yeah, I think I'll drop FNR3..... GRAW is just too tempting to drop.

Looks like March is instant noodles month for me

BTW, I'm reading reviews that say the VA1912W has some bleeding light issues.....do you have the same problems?

Is 4ms - 8ms that much different? I dunno, I read many opinions that say you won't see much difference between 4ms and 8ms, unless you have a super-sensitive eye.

No prob....once I actually buy it. Yeah, I bought your VGA cable even though I haven't gotten my LCD yet Anyhoos, should be getting it by next weekend if all goes well....

No fun on CRT. Rather wait for widescreen, baru shiok!!

Not long to wait, should be around mid of the week...

Hey, that's Lost s2 ep15!!

Nice, now I really can't wait to get it....

Yes, direct cable is the best. I've been using the Dragon 3rd party VGA cable (got from Djinn) and it has so far been excellent for me. A little bit ghosting at first, but after a while I got used to it and it's really great. My VA1912w is loving it

Res is set at 1280x720, which is the 16:10 ratio that the VA1912w caters to.

Not really sure what caused the ghosting, but I'm just guessing that it's because my eyes is too used to watching DOA4 on the TV, and hasn't really adjusted to an LCD. Now I don't really feel there is any ghosting at all The response time 8ms shouldn't be much of a problem, and the VGA cable has been great so far, colours are all nice and bright.