Soliciting Suggestions, How to Play My Xbox
November 01, 2007
I'm sure by now that many of you have noticed that I rather like my shiny new Xbox 360. I love the selection of games, the ability to easily download demos and I am really having a good time with it. The problem is that we only have one good television in our house - the one in the living room. As you can tell by my attempt to get a shot of my beloved 360, the television is typically in use for things other than video games...
In the interest of getting the most out of my shiny new toy, I'm looking around for alternative output means. I'm really not into buying a second TV, since I never use it for anything but an output device anyway, so I'm looking around at computer monitor solutions. I'm thinking of trying to pickup a nice new widescreen display for my main system possibly with two DVI inputs or building a DVI switch. From what I have heard on the Internets it's fairly simple to convert the HDMI signal from my Xbox into DVI for a computer monitor. I can save oddles of money, and avoid having to have yet another piece of equipment hanging around my house.
Right now I'm eyeballing an Acer 22" Widescreen with a single DVI input. Everything with dual DVI inputs (or *Gasp* HDMI) just seems to incredibly expensive. Are there any suggestions from the gallery of legumes?
Update
James has mentioned that his spifftastic monitor is a larger cousin of this attractive thing. I do believe that with it's om nomie HDMI input ports it would make a much more useful buy than the cheaper Acer monitor. I may have a new toy to eyeball for awhile...
In other news, one of my professors said "a hwile" yesterday. I can just picture James at his desk right now... oh the joy I bring to people.
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OnyxRaven 2007/10/29
Dell 24" (and maybe the 20/22?) have component, svideo and composite in. This in conjunction with one of those 'fancy' RCA-to-headphone converters lets me play my xbox on my widescreen monitor at HD resolution with sound on my computer speakers. Works quite well.
I <3 my 2405 - and the 2407 is even better.
Andy 2007/10/29
Clearly the wife is the problem here.
Jordan T. Cox 2007/10/29
Hmm... Dell. I does have a 17" from Dell that I am quite happy with. Why thank you Mr. OnyxRaven; I shall be sure to check that out though the 24"is quite expensive. Also, we shall have to play some Halo 3 at some point.
Jordan T. Cox 2007/10/29
Oooh... hello there....
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824014139
Now that one looks promising. It even has HDMI support.
James 2007/10/29
Ooh, looks like a slightly smaller version of the monitor I have!
Jordan T. Cox 2007/10/30
Oh, you has a Benq? It must be substantially smaller than yours though... wasn't yours like close to a grand?
Draz 2007/10/30
Well, if you were really good at playing X-Box, you would be able to beat your game without having any auditory or visual feedback as to how good you were doing. Just randomly input data using the controller, then maybe plug it into the TV when you're done to see how far you got.
Awesome, I managed to get past the start screen this time!
Jordan T. Cox 2007/10/30
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0MM9dSXv-5s
Sort of like that but on a whole different level? :)