display for my 360?

[BarbusG60]

Can anyone help please?
I have a 360 but can never get on it due to the nightly soap session each & every night nowadays.
We only have a 14" portable upstairs so this is not really worth playing it on.
Is there any way I can wire my 360 so I can use my laptop to play on?
This would be ideal as I could use the internal speakers or headphones. I think the laptop probably outputs a picture, not accepts one but just thought I would ask.
Thanks in advance,
Rob.

[sj33]

Only if your laptops has VGA-in, which I doubt..

You could get a nice cheap 19" widescreen VGA monitor and use VGA. My bro does that, and dispite the difference in native resolutionm it looka nice.

[GluedOnBeard]

I used my 19" Samsung for ages @ 1280x1024 , it was perfect, looks exactly the same as my HDTV.

[SUMIRE]

Only problem I have with VGA through a monitor is its way too dark.

[GluedOnBeard]

Only problem I have with VGA through a monitor is its way too dark.

What kind of monitor do you have! This samsung tft monitor is brighter than my samsung hdtv lol You must have a very poor quality monitor or some really bad settings

[BarbusG60]

I didnt think I could.
I have access to a nice new 19" NEC monitor from work but it has no speakers.
What would be the cheapest option for sound? My stereo has no aux inputs?
Thanks,
Rob.

[GluedOnBeard]

For sound you would just have to pick up some cheap speakers that would accept AUX. Theres plenty of those about

*oh and definately buy the official vga lead.

[BarbusG60]

Cheers mate, I will look for some.
I take it you mean powered speakers?

[VR46]

or get a two lead AV to single 3.5mm stereo jack from maplin for ?2, that's what I've done (there's one included with the official VGA lead)

[BarbusG60]

David,
what do you plug the stereo jack into though?
I have one of these already (2 female RCA to 1 male 3.5mm)
Thanks to everyone so far for the help

[VR46]

spend another quid at maplin and get a female/female 3.5mm jack, will take pic in a mo, not as complicated as it sounds and no noticeable loss in sound quality

[GluedOnBeard]

EDIT: Looks like i was beaten to it, yeh an adapter is best :P That way you have more options on the speaker, myself i went and bought myself an amp lol

[VR46]

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[BarbusG60]

Thanks for all the help.
I've just been chatting to my mate, he is going to lend me a VGA lead to try it out.
Also someone we work with has a 5.1 set of PC speakers for sale so I might take a look at these when I get that adaptor.
Cheers,
Rob.

[Sane]

Thanks for all the help.
I've just been chatting to my mate, he is going to lend me a VGA lead to try it out.
Also someone we work with has a 5.1 set of PC speakers for sale so I might take a look at these when I get that adaptor.
Cheers,
Rob.

If you're getting a 5.1 set you should get one that accepts optical inputs, that way you can connect the 360 to it without any hassle and get proper 5.1 sound.