Xbox 360 by Laptop Screen

[phoenixology]

Hi,

Just wondering if it would be possible to play on my Xbox 360 via the screen on my laptop.

I will be using the laptop screen only basically its just needed for visual purposes only.

On my laptop i have some kind of vga port and thought that maybe it was possible for me to plug my xbox into that using some kind of vga cable to use my laptops screen?

If anyone knows, would this be possible if i used this VGA HD AV Cable which is an official xbox product. Obviously its used so you can plug the Xbox straight into a monitor, but this is a laptop screen.

http://www.xbox.com/NR/rdonlyres/F1EA189B-D507-4693-82F1-1C0384C7D435/0/packagingxbox360VGAHDcable.jpg

Helppp!

[Mavykins]

The VGA port is generally used to attach a monitor to your laptop, not to use your laptop screen as a monitor for another device, I have never seen a laptop that could do that.

You could get a usb tv card for the laptop and tune xbox into that, but that would proberly run very badly

[Cabe]

what mav said

http://www.epiphan.com/products/product.php?pid=1&gclid=CNfigI7WiIkCFTYNQgodRQiZXw

will be what you need.

[RoboStac]

The specs on that says it only gives you 10fps at 1024x768, so its not going to be much use for gaming. I'm not aware of anyway to do what he wants though.

[Cabe]

I never said it was going to be pretty :)

[Mudface]

epiphan.com/products/product.php?pid=1&gclid=CNfigI7WiIkCFTYNQgodRQiZXw

will be what you need.

If you are even concidering buying one of those for what, £169 on their website? just buy a 17" TV or TFT monitor?

The only other thing I could see working is if you had some form of usb/PCMIA TV card you could plug it into, either through the ariel or those red/white/yellow not-quite-scart plugs (i really suck with terminology) and play your 360 as if it was a TV channel?

[rick_2k]

Tbh why do you want to play a console through your laptop... a 360 isnt portable so?

If your at home or wherever with a power source buy a tft.. they are cheap as **** now..

[Freelance]

just wondering for a potential january sales purchase, how well does the x360 vga cable work? does it work well on a non-widescreen monitor? what's the quality like, etc.

[GreyDeath]

just wondering for a potential january sales purchase, how well does the x360 vga cable work? does it work well on a non-widescreen monitor? what's the quality like, etc.

I cant tell you how well it would work on a specific monitor, but the ones I have seen it running on are outstanding. This is basically the budget gap for people who want better picture display then the normal AV/TV offers but arent quiet at the point of affording or wanting a HD display.

Definite buy, especially if you have a spare monitor kicking around.

http://uk.gamespot.com/features/6139690/p-2.html?sid=6139690&page=2

this might give you some better answers.

Tbh why do you want to play a console through your laptop... a 360 isnt portable so?

If your at home or wherever with a power source buy a tft.. they are cheap as **** now..

This is just my opinion but if your doing this CRT is the way, TFT tends to make things look a little more blurry nothing new there with TFTs though.

[Tsung]

Why do you think its a budget gap?

When you plug the vga cable in the xbox 360 the screen menu changes from the tv select (sd/hd) to a selection of resolutions. Pick the resolution that best suits the TFT/TV you have plugged it into. This supports resolutions up to 1920x1080, which as far as i know is the same as HD.

I've used my xbox on a TFT monitor (1280x1024) as well as my 26'' TFT screen (1320x960 i think) and the picture quality is nothing short of superb (on both). Havent experienced any fuzziness/blurryness that greydeath is on about? :confused:

[RocketKnight]

Wouldn't results vary from TFT to TFT depending on the pixel response time?

[phoenixology]

If you are even concidering buying one of those for what, £169 on their website? just buy a 17" TV or TFT monitor?

Yeah thats what i thought. Whatever it is, i would buy an LCD Widescreen.

[Pinny]

On my HDTV the vga cable seems to make things look a little blurry compared to the componant cables....

may be because my VGA cable is a GAMEWare one..meh

[RoboStac]

It's down more to the TV I think pinny - mine looks better on vga cable than component, and both are the official cables.

Not sure if any updates have changed this or if it was just a problem with PD:Z, but when I tried it on my 19" 4:3 monitor, it would only output a widescreen image (eg with black bars on top and bottom). Didn't try any other games though, and have since got a widescreen TFT that I use.

I assume greydeaths just on about the usual TFT vs CRT debates, rather than a specific 360 issue.

[GreyDeath]

Wouldn't results vary from TFT to TFT depending on the pixel response time?
I assume greydeaths just on about the usual TFT vs CRT debates, rather than a specific 360 issue.

Yup thats where your fuzzyiness comes into it and like I said its personal preference, CRT to me just looks better.

And it is a budget gap cause most monitors can handle at least a 720p resolution very easily. Something alot of TVs arent up to scratch with.

If your after a screen for your 360 indepently why drop a couple of hundred on a 17"-19" TV that could do it when you could spend £80-£100 on a monitor around "17-"19 range that will probably do a better job.

[Er00]

The only weird thing about running 360 on tft is there are weird widescreen issues, games sometimes think it's in widescreen when it's not etc, so you have to go and change the screen format in the 360 options...sometimes it takes a while to figure out whether it looks how it's supposed to look after a bit of playing around.

[Pinny]

some games just plain wont do 4:3 so you get the letterbox on a VGA cable anyway. PGR3 lets you have a 'sort of' 4:3 mode, but everything is just squashed up instead of proberly scaled. Microsoft leave it to the game devs to sort the screen types out, if they cant be arsed to include 4:3 (when HD res is clearly widescreen) then thats that. Solution, get a nice 20" widescreen TFT and jobs a good'un :)