ya la.. i guess not much different in a 24"
if 40" sure got diff..

for <30 i think 720p is darn good already

Yeah. I have the official Xbxo360 VGA cable and the pictures are very bright and colours washed out. Blacks not rich and turned out gray.



I tried connecting the Dell using the component cable that came with my unit. The colours look great and rich! Blacks are darker and almost matching the black in the pop-up settings menu. But I think the cable I have is not right for my monitor.

The cable that I have


Is this the cable that I need?


Because with my current component cable that came with my machine, I can only achive 420p. It says HDTV output disabled. "Your Xbox360 component HD AV cable is currently set to TV" But when I switch to HD, the screen goes blank.



Any help will be appreciated. Thank you.

This post has been edited by ps360: Dec 15 2006, 11:39 AM

the cable that you have is the composite cable, which consist of yellow jack for video. yup, you need the second picture cable, the component cable.

looks like vga on the 2407 is gonna be bright and washed out...goddemmit...

how bad is the 'graininess' using component with 2407? any pics?

I see. So, by getting the component cable, my Dell would be able to display 720p?

Gonna get myself a component cable later and give a report.

This post has been edited by ps360: Dec 14 2006, 09:45 AM

I geuss the answer is yes....and with vga..it can even goes to 1080p. .

But with VGA, the colours are .... bad.
At least, on my Dell.




This post has been edited by ps360: Dec 14 2006, 08:58 AM

dell 2407 will stretch the image vertically to fill the additional (vertical)120 pixel.
err in layman's term it doesnt look good (for 1080p materials). but for a normal computer use.. that 2407 rocks. and its only 2.5k (online price)

This post has been edited by carimari: Dec 14 2006, 11:20 AM

the dell 20inch ultrasharp good or not? I can live up my budget abit... but 16ms will have ghosting effect? I play FPS one le..

the ultrasharp(tm) term is over rated get the entry E207WFP, rm~1k only... response is 5ms.

Shouldnt you have the HD AV cable already, which comes with all 360 by the way?It's the VGA HD cable that had to be purchased separately.

If you need one, i have mine though. I can let you have it, im using Monster Cable HD Component on mine.

i think he got a Jap unit, the bundled HD AV cable have D-Terminal connectors instead of component RCA connectors.

Thanks. Will PM you for payment details.


Yeah. I have the Japanese unit.

This post has been edited by ps360: Dec 14 2006, 03:03 PM

not ultrasharp better meh? I mean in term of image quality.. any pro please guide me which to buy. I also don wan ghosting as i will use it to play fps on pc.

imm using a normal viewsonic 19inch right now
i notice when i play gears of war they shrink the vertical size to play in widescreen mode
will that happen on my new 24inch widescreen from dell? or it will adjust to fit fully on the screen itself

There's an option to scale 1:1 instead of Fill fullscreen, so it wont stretch the image.

IIRC dell 2407 does not have 1:1 feature anymore, only 2405FPW have it.

ur viewsonic 5:4 or 16:10 ? many games do that if ur playing in non-widescreen

i tot it still does but labelled as 4:3 instead. Will check back later... since my 2007WFP had the option to scale while maintaining the aspect ratio.