Comments on: Xbox 360 & HDTV! http://www.neyo.co.uk/blog/?p=234 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:48:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Stew http://www.neyo.co.uk/blog/?p=234&cpage=1#comment-7885 Stew Sun, 07 Jan 2007 11:23:31 +0000 http://www.neyo.co.uk/blog/?p=234#comment-7885 576i not 480p. PAL SD material is 576i (interlaced) NTSC is 480i 1 reason to avoid VGA is the lack of backwards compatibility with a lot of games, reason is that the VGA only works in PAL60 and quite a few notable BC games are PAL50 only (all the Tom Clancy ones for instance), however over VGA playback of SD DVD is upscaled so you get a better picture quality if you watch DVDs through your 360 compared to a non-upscaling DVD player (and few do) 576i not 480p.

PAL SD material is 576i (interlaced)
NTSC is 480i

1 reason to avoid VGA is the lack of backwards compatibility with a lot of games, reason is that the VGA only works in PAL60 and quite a few notable BC games are PAL50 only (all the Tom Clancy ones for instance), however over VGA playback of SD DVD is upscaled so you get a better picture quality if you watch DVDs through your 360 compared to a non-upscaling DVD player (and few do)

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