Anyway to play Xbox on my cinema display?
I was wondering anyone out there knew how to connect an xbox to a cinema display... I understand the irony of connecting a microsoft product to an apple display, but such is not of much relevance.
I have a 20 inch older cinema display... I have the adaptor for it to connect to my powerbook g4 and the little adaptor that came with the laptop... please let me know what else I would need.
thanks in advance...
I have a 20 inch older cinema display... I have the adaptor for it to connect to my powerbook g4 and the little adaptor that came with the laptop... please let me know what else I would need.
thanks in advance...
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Originally posted by myungjin
I was wondering anyone out there knew how to connect an xbox to a cinema display... I understand the irony of connecting a microsoft product to an apple display, but such is not of much relevance.
I have a 20 inch older cinema display... I have the adaptor for it to connect to my powerbook g4 and the little adaptor that came with the laptop... please let me know what else I would need.
thanks in advance...
I don't think the xbox has a DVI output.....so, no easy way really.
what is the native resolution for this display? 480, 720, or 1080? thanks..
Originally posted by myungjin
I found it on the internet somewhere, it said to connect the ADC to the female VGA adapter then connect to this product called x2vga...
what is the native resolution for this display? 480, 720, or 1080? thanks..
the cinema display is digital though which wont easily convert to plain ol VGA as I have unfortunately learned.
the native resolution of the old display was 1,680-by-1,050 so it doesn't natively support any of those
Originally posted by mmmpie
What sort of computer have you got? The cheapest easiest way is to use a tv tuner card.
apparently a Powerbook...so, that isn't an option either since USB/Firewire inputs have a lag.
http://www.viewsonic.com/products/tv...sors/vb50hrtv/
they're a bit pricey, but they might solve your problem.
you can get them at bestbuy even. so getting your hands on one shouldn't be a problem.
Originally posted by JohnnyTwoToes
try one of these:
http://www.viewsonic.com/products/tv...sors/vb50hrtv/
they're a bit pricey, but they might solve your problem.
you can get them at bestbuy even. so getting your hands on one shouldn't be a problem.
doesn't support widescreen and high res
Originally posted by applenut
doesn't support widescreen and high res
applenut you seem to know a lot about this topic. have you used the x2vga connector? That seems to be the best converter... I was wondering if you had any experience with it?
(www.x2vga.com)
I was going to attach the adc and the dvi->vga plug into the x2vga thing.
Originally posted by myungjin
applenut you seem to know a lot about this topic. have you used the x2vga connector? That seems to be the best converter... I was wondering if you had any experience with it?
(www.x2vga.com)
I was going to attach the adc and the dvi->vga plug into the x2vga thing.
problem is you can't just use a dvi to vga plug. you need a digital to analog converter box.
http://forums.appleinsider.com/showt...threadid=44221
\ im kind of surprised that the Xbox doesn't offer an easier solution
The Dreamcast used to support a VGA connector natively for certain games (DOA2, etc.) and the difference in rendering to screen was interesting to see (better color fidelity and somewhat more polygonal in nature) and high-quality. I think the best you'll get out of current consoles will be component and/or s-video signals to an hdtv monitor.
Connecting directly to the display rather than going through your Powerbook would be trickier and probably more expensive, if it's even possible.
Microsoft does make an S-video adaptor for the Xbox but I don't think you can get that to DVI either.
edit: I did some digging and found this, which references an "upcoming" Xbox DVI adaptor, but I couldn't find any other announcements for it.