Xbox 360 as a upscaling DVD player?

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Molingrad

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How well does the 360 work as a upscaling dvd player? Im not too sure if i want a 360 or if i should save up and upgrade my rig, but if the 360 upscales and a set alone one costs $200 its worth it.

also does 360 have HDMI and/or optical out?
 
1. No, the Xbox 360 doesn't upscale DVDs. Just buy an Oppo DVD player, its only $200 and its money well spent.

2. HDMI output may happen in the future, but for now, you're out of luck.

3. The Xbox 360 has optical out via a toslink connection on the HD AV cable. Not sure if it's also on the standard RCA cables.
 
zero002021 said:
1. No, the Xbox 360 doesn't upscale DVDs. Just buy an Oppo DVD player, its only $200 and its money well spent.
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QFT. A good standalone kicks the ass of any convergence device.

2. HDMI output may happen in the future, but for now, you're out of luck.
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A future revision of XBox360 may do it, but not the one that's on shelves now.

3. The Xbox 360 has optical out via a toslink connection on the HD AV cable. Not sure if it's also on the standard RCA cables.
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My friend got the core package. There doesn't seem to be an optical audio output on it, just the standard yellow white and red. Though, I didn't take a good long look at them, but I didn't see anything else. The premium model comes with the HD cables though (component and optical audio out are inclded, but not the VGA cable).
 
Erasmus354 said:
The optical out is in the base of the unit, not on an actual cable.
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That would explain why it wasn't on the standard AV cable. I still cringe at the fact that he's playing the system on a composite (not even S-video!!!) connection... but hey, that's life. 90+% of people still play their console games on 480i TVs from 1989. Hell, I bet at least half of them require RF input converters :p
 
steviep said:
Hell, I bet at least half of them require RF input converters :p
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I bet thats true. When I used to work at GameStop we sold a decent amount of RF input cables and up until I bought my HDTV, my prior TV only had an RF connection, so imagine the difference in quality I originally saw going from Xbox on a 19" TV w/ RF connection to an Xbox on a 36" TV w/ component cables running in 480p. Quite nice, and even nicer now that the Xbox 360s out. 720p is delicious. :p
 
both basic AV cable set and HD cable set for the XBOX 360 has optical out steviep.

It's a female recepter embedded in the actual piece that plugs in to the back of the xbox rather than the ends of the cable.
 
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