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Xbox 360 VGA Audio Video Cable | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft
Category: Video Games
List Price: £19.99
Buy New: £17.98
You Save: £2.01 (10%)
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Rating:  40 reviews
Platform: Xbox 360
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 3 - 18 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 19.7 x 19.7 x 19.7
MPN: B4S-00002
UPC: 882224036986
EAN: 0882224036986
ASIN: B000AYYADE
Release Date: December 2, 2005
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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 VGA HD Cable - what it does and how well. May 1, 2007
D. Mclaughlin
177 out of 179 found this review helpful
Reading these reviews it's clear there is alot of confusion on exactly what this cable does, how well it preforms. Many of the poor reviews are due to an understandable mess of confusion between analog and digital, HDMI, VGA, Component, resolution levels and TV set up.
I'll try to make a brief outline of exactly what this Cable can do and how well.
1. Connects Xbox 360 to a HDTV with a VGA port at resoultions up and including 1080P.
- VGA is every bit as good as HDMI, many people assume HDMI is better because it's digital it's not, as this is a brief review i won't get into that debate but a google should reveal all the info you need. Both should give better image output than component but not always for some of the reason's below.
- Technically there should be no difference in the data carried by VGA or HDMI however many HDTV are optimised for HDMI inputs and this is the important point, u may well have a VGA port on your TV but it may disable many of your HDTV's image enhancing features and limit the output resolution.
This is most often the reason some have complained of washed out colours, so u need to check your manual. An update is due in the next week or so from MS to give more flexibility to the VGA settings so this may help some users with these problems.
2. Those thinking of buying the Xbox 360 Elite for the HDMI connection. This should be obvious now but depending on how well your TV accepts a signal through VGA u may well have no need for a HDMI enabled console to get the best picture at resolutions up to and including 1080P.
3. Enables standard DVD's to be played at upscaled resolutions - in short this means your normal DVDs will look significantly better than played through a standard DVD player. i.e for the example below pal 486 to 720.
- The topic of HD resolutions can be a confusing area and would take too long to explain in a brief review, essentially though the basics are all TV's have a natural or native resuloution, i.e the number of lines it can physically display, for example a typical 32inch TV has 1360 x 768.
HD resolutions are 720 and 1080, if u like 720 is for smaller HDTV's and 1080 for larger HDTV's 4x+.
A TV with 768 max lines cannot display more than this so a 1080 signal needs to be downscaled to fit from 1080 to 768, likewise a 720 would need to be upscaled to fit a tv with 768 lines.
So again unless u have a TV with a Native resolution of 1080, and depending on how well your TV accepts a VGA signal you may not need the HDMI enabled Xbox to achieve the highest level of HD picture currently available.
This cable enables you to set your Xbox output resolution to 768 as well as many other resolutions, 768 is an exact fit for a TV with this type. Using component it would be outputting at either 720 or 1080 so when this signal reaches your TV, the TV must either preform the upscaling or downscaling as required, which is not ideal.
Your own TV may have a different native resolution than 768 but the principles are the same. And the important point is using the VGA cable your TV is recieving a signal at it's maxium output resolution and does not have to preform any upscaling or downscaling of content itself.
To most peoples eyes 1080i (interlaced - displays odd then even), 1080p(progressive - displays all lines at the same time), prob wouldn't be noticable, but to those lucky enough to have a very large TV it may have some impact. And the problem here has been that although many native 1080 TV's can display through HDMI 1080P, they cannot do it through VGA. - so again have a quick browse at your TV manual to see if it can accept a 1080P signal via VGA. For the price of this cable it's surely worth trying rather than going straight for the Elite.
4. Connects you Xbox 360 to a monitor, i'm sure this is obvious but worth stating.
- In short the cable could be for just about anyone who would like the above, there should be no difference between the data carried by HDMI or VGA so don't worry or listen to people who say HDMI is better than VGA, they don't know what they are talking about, and in some cases on some TV's component can look better than either.
- Hope this has been useful.
Who needs a HDTV November 19, 2005
77 out of 82 found this review helpful
This item enables you to connect your xbox 360 to a pc monitor which has a high definition picture (even if its old). This cable will also save you from buting a £1000 HDTV just simply connect the cable into the back of your monitor (you will require a female to female gender changer if the socket is on a cable coming from the moniter) and the audio cables into the back of a stereo or oc speakers. For example i have a 1280x1024 moniter which means i can play my games at 720p.I recommened this item to people who do not want to fork out over £1000 for a HDTV.
 Good, but beware February 7, 2006
24 out of 26 found this review helpful
The cable does exactly what it is supposed to: it will output games at 640×480, 848×480, 1024×768, 1280×720, 1280×768, 1280×1024, and 1360×768 resolution. However there are drawbacks.If your monitor has a 4:3 aspect ratio (square not widescreen), running in a resolution higher than 640x480 will cause either very large letterboxing (black bars at the top and bottom of the screen) as is the case with Perfect Dark, or for the image to be physically stretched to fill the screen (as is the case with PGR3) as there is no 360 support for high resolutions in 4:3. However 640x480 on my 19" 4:3 LCD is still far sharper and better for 4 player splitscreen than any television. In the end I went out and bought a widescreen19" LCD monitor which at £180 is stilll far cheaper than a HDTV set. In addition I needed to purchase a 2x Phono to 3.5mm Jack Adapter (only £3) to plug the console into my PC speakers as well. It is great, and does exactly what it is supposed to: but just don't expect it to be amazing on a standard 4:3 computer screen, because frankly it isn't.
much better than the component cable June 20, 2006
Material_Possession (Suffolk, UK)
22 out of 25 found this review helpful
I had the component cable hooked up to my hdtv and the graphics were good... bought this, set the resolution in the dashboard to 1280 X 1024, and WOW!!!! its simply amazing.
Dont even bother with the component cable in the premium package. With the MS VGA cable you can set the resolution in the 360 dashboard to the native resolution of your HDTV, so it doesnt have to upscale from 720P/1080i to the actuall resolution of the panel, you get perfect 1:1 pixel mapping.
With this cable, it adds more settings to the 360 menus. You can set the resolution in the 360 dashboard from 640by480 all the way upto 1920x1080).
Im assuming that all the people who are saying this gives a worse picture than the component cable havent been into the menu and changed it from its default 640by480 (VGA) to the highest res that there HDTV supports (thats 1080p :) - in your face sony).
If youve got a HDTV, this is a must have. Go buy this. Go buy this now!!!
Worth paying over the odds for! January 4, 2006
15 out of 17 found this review helpful
If, like me, you bought a nice new HDTV or in anticipation of your 360's arrival, only to find that Microsoft's supplied component HD cable doesn't fit your TV (grr...), this is an essential purchase. I was initially forced to use a SCART connection and to be honest the picture quality is pretty poor. But when I finally got hold of a VGA cable the difference was amazing. The graphics become pin sharp and at least as good as those seen on any high-end PC.But, of course, there's a problem. Like many 360 accessories, the VGA cable is unavailable just about everywhere at the time of writing (January 06) - in fact, it's much more difficult to find than the console itself. I managed to get one via a - ahem - well-known auction site and paid rather more than the recommended retail price for it, but I haven't regretted it for a moment. Expect to pay around 40 quid plus until supplies eventually reach the UK, but if you are stuck with SCART at the moment it's worth every penny. And, of course, you can also use it with you PC monitor if you don't have HDTV.
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