TV help. Help me get my gaming back on track

[Ganhyun]

So, my old tv died. A friend gave me his old Monster 32 inch Sony Trinitron (165 pound beast). He told me it is native 1080i, however, when I look at it, there is no hdmi port.

It has:

composite
component
s video
and a RF port which supposedly also does ATSC?

He did mention as well that setting it up for HD with an XBox requires some sort of code. So, TV geniuses of EB, how do I get my XBox to display HD on this monster? Obviously the HDMI cable is out. As far as I knew, none of the options listed can do HD unless that RF port can somehow, which would be amazing.

I looked online, and found the generic owner's manual,which of course has no info on HD setup or codes.

This seems to be the right TV as the picture matches.

http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&partNumber=KD32FS170#specifications

[T234]

Component did sweet things before the existence of HDMI.

[BlackMage]

1080i on that? huh?

[naff]

Yeah, get dem component cables they support 1080i, 360 didn't even have HDMI out to begin with...

http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-360-Component-HD-AV-Cable/dp/B000B6MLPU/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1301970258&sr=8-5

Have no idea about the code thing...

[Joe Molotov]

I had a pre-HDMI HDTV once, just get that component cable.

[maxy]

Nice CRT TV.

Get 360 component cable,if you don't have it already.Component can easily do 1080p.



In short,360 output has to match TV input.You will get a black pic otherwise,luckily there are some codes that can reset 360 to default settings(480p,i think).

I think that your TV can except 480p,720p,1080i,no problem here unless 360 was outputting 1080p to your old tv.
Then you will have to use codes.

http://support.xbox.com/en-us/pages/xbox-360/troubleshoot/kb/xbox-kb.aspx?kbid=911059

In short connect it and report back...try 1080i,720p to see what mostly pleases you

Enjoy beautiful colors and high contrast ratio :'(

[demi]

Codes? All you gotta do is plug in composite cables, which defaults to 480i, then you can plug back in the Component, then change the res to 720p etc.

[Ganhyun]

Thanks for the help everyone. As my old component cable is dead, I took a look at the setup.

I can either go with component from the xbox to the tv, or, I can use composite from the xbox to the dvd player, and component from there to the tv. The second option gives me surround sound.

Just so everyone understands, my current setup on this tv is a cheap rf converter for that rf port.

[naff]

The second option gives you SD rez

[Ganhyun]

So im going option 1. Thanks again

[Ganhyun]

so, apparently, when using the component connector with the hd setup (i had to buy a component cable for the xbox, it has tv and hdtv switch), the tv displays it as 3 smaller, warped images. Obviously not right, so as for now, im stuck with SD.

[maxy]

so, apparently, when using the component connector with the hd setup (i had to buy a component cable for the xbox, it has tv and hdtv switch), the tv displays it as 3 smaller, warped images. Obviously not right, so as for now, im stuck with SD.

Hmm...are you sure that your tv supports hd?


What are available 360 dashboard settings options?

Try to play with TV settings

[Ganhyun]

Im at work at the moment, so I wont be able to tell you all that until much later, but it wouldnt surprise me if its really not hd compatible. If it isnt im not going to complain too much, the unit still looks better with component than it did with an rf adapter