david_w Posted November 26, 2008 Posted November 26, 2008 Hi all, I have a new Xbox 360 Pro (with HDMI), and a Panny AE900 (2nd bulb, 1300 hours on it, fan getting a bit noisy). On my first attempt to set things up, I attached the 360 with Component cables, and set the 360 display to 720p. Games and the Dashboard looked quite fine. Video looked fine, BUT... I was getting intermittent flashing/ghosting horizontal lines when playing back any DVDs (regardless of region). So, second attempt: I attached the 360 via HDMI (after breaking open the 360's AV adaptor plastic housing in order to make the HDMI plug fit alongside the AV adaptor). The 360 is set to 720p at (presumably) 60hz. HDMI video profile is set to RGB. Result: DVDs no longer flicker like they were having a Macrovision fit. Quality of games and 720p video looks great. BUT... upscaled video looks pretty awful. Specifically, it's very blurry, very soft. Distractingly so. The video in question are generally divx/xvid 350mb tv episodes (42mins each). 624x352 res. Now, I don't expect this sort of video to look outstanding or anything. They're low res, after all. But, they look pretty bad. Much worse than my (not-bound-for-early-retirement-after-all) progressive LG divx/DVD player showing the exact same material on the same screen. Apart from resourcing my entire collection in 720p, can anyone offer advice on this? Thanks.
hakka69 Posted November 26, 2008 Posted November 26, 2008 I recently upgraded to a HD projector, I watched a 350mb xvid and it looked like shite. Ever since I've been getting the 1gb 720p MKV files instead. You need to transcode them to MP4 (look for a program called 'Gotsent') to play on the 360 but they look great. Only problem is the 360 can only do 2channel audio on such files. I dont think there's much you can do to improve the quality of the 624x352 files. Hakka.
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