360 VGA on SD TV?

[SteveStuart]

Ok, having finally convinced the missus that the Pstwo was on it's last legs and shown her the extortionate price of the Ps3, she agreed and the 360 is nestling next to my entetainment cabinet.

All good so far except for that fact that that i am doing the machine a huge disservice by currently having it hooked up thru the supplied scart adapter using compos(h)ite.

My TV is not a HD set and there is not one on the horizon either, it has RGB Scart, S-video and a PC input, alas, no component

The question is, what lead to go for, the VGA appeals as it's one less Scart socket to have to take up, but I'm not sure how it would fare on my set, both the Wii and the Pstwo are hooked up via RGB scart and I am tempted to stick with "the devil I know"

I don't want to hook the 360 up to a monitor as I'll lose the surround sound option and despite being an SD set, the TV is a 42" Sony KF-42SX300U & I'm not sure I could co back to a 14" screen.

According to the instructions in the TV manual it suports resolutions of 640x480, 800x600 & 1024x768, these kind of specs maen nothing to me so any advice (other than burying the missus under the patio & buying a HD set with the insurance money ) would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance

[lostn]

If your monitor is only 14" you might want to give it back to the cavemen that sold it to you.

A 17" monitor or better is capable of higher resolutions than your SDTV. It's smaller you say? Well you do sit significantly closer to the screen, offsetting the size.

[Dirty Sanchez]

It's a rear proj LCD so running at 1024*768 should give you a cracking picture. This setting will be available in the Dashboard when connected viua VGA. The VGA cable (Microsoft, don't go for some cheap ass version) is cheap as chips, don't fret about it, just go abd buy one.

[SteveStuart]

It's a rear proj LCD so running at 1024*768 should give you a cracking picture. This setting will be available in the Dashboard when connected viua VGA. The VGA cable (Microsoft, don't go for some cheap ass version) is cheap as chips, don't fret about it, just go abd buy one.

I was indeeding fretting, anything that spouts off resolutions at me confuses me no end and I didn't want to buy aomething that would be incomaptible with my set up. Cheers m8, I'll pop into GAME this afternoon and see what they've got!

[VR46]

Dirty Sanchez is right, my brother has one of those TV's and the the 360 via VGA looks top notch, official VGA lead is ?20 in GAME btw.

[SteveStuart]

Dirty Sanchez is right, my brother has one of those TV's and the the 360 via VGA looks top notch, official VGA lead is ?20 in GAME btw.

Cool, I've got a fiver to spend in there from some left-over vouchers, you having seen it in the flesh (so to speak) helps loads.

Thanks for the input gents.