xbox 360 phat picture quality poor over component

supa dupa noob uk

hello, please could a kind soul or two help out a noob ?

i have an old xbox 360 phat that i have connected via a component cable to a fairly old lcd tv without hdmi (lg rz-26lz50) the picture quality is quite poor, it is blurry and the text hard to read.

on the component cable which apparantly is microsoft branded there is a switch with - tv or hdtv, when i select tv the picture quality is poor, when i select hdtv the picture goes black and gray and jumps around all over the place, i was expecting a nice clear picture over component as the tv has a resolution of something by 768, im quite disapointed and i wonder if some one could give me an idea of what to do.

p.s. i went into xbox 360 settings and when i select 720 the screen goes black and then goes back to the poor quality picture. (480)

all help appreciatted.

for reference the tv has:

upgrade port
dvi input (rgb input)
pc sound
2x scart
ant in
component
s video

p.p.s. i plugged a wii in via component port/cable and the picture quality is beautiful

next010

Just a guess but I think the Wii is outputting component 480p but the Xbox cable switch toggles between composite (TV) or component (HDTV) and for some reason the component will not work at 480p or 720p so when set to TV your getting low quality composite video.

Not sure really what you can do, you could buy a third part X360 component cable and see if that works in case the other is faulty, or bypass the component altogether and use the DVI input with either a xbox component or xbox VGA cable to DVI converter.

noiseboy72

Have you tried an HDMI to DVI cable?

supa dupa noob uk

thank you for your suggestions, i have considered getting a hdmi to dvi cable but im not sure how to get audio accross to the telly, i do have an xbox 360 vga cable which i were using on a monitor, could i use the vga cable and hdmi to dvi at the same time and just use the vga cables audio output into the telly ? hope im making sense

or would i be best off using a hdmi to component converter ? (as that carries audio) though that may give the same problem, i dont know.

noiseboy72

I would think you could continue to use your component cable for the audio - but you might need an adapter depending upon the input to your TV.

next010

Is there a blue 3.5mm audio jack next to the DVI port, that I would guess is your PC audio in. You could test it buy hooking up PC to TV and get headphones cable with male connector at each end.

If your X360 has HDMI try this adapter, it converts HDMI into DVI and has an audio out 3.5mm jack to send the audio.