New Xbox Experience gets clarified by the Major

Well that is based off the Netflix service which doesn't have HD streaming. It's not really in Microsoft's hands. But they say it's DVD quality. We'll have to wait and see.

The video podcasts I stream through my Xbox does look better than on my computer. So I assume netflex movies will be up-converted as well.

And correct me if I'm wrong, but Xbox will only up-convert the video through HDMI or VGA.

Component cable only goes up to 480p. The VGA cable can handle 1080i I think, but the only way to get upscaled to 1080p is over HDMI.

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Nope, you are mistaken, component does 1080p just fine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_video

I think you are mistaking it with composite video...

On the other hand, avoid HDMI devices, if you want the next gen port you should go with display port devices. HDMI is burdened with IP taxes, and HDCP support. Also, there are no actual devices that support HDMI anyhow. Just wait for Display Port to displace HDMI.

upconversion to 1080p works great through the VGA cable.

Oh also... 1080i is actually lower resolution than 720p, 1080i is only 540 lines of resolution while 720p is... um 720p...

Greg: Of course component can handle 1080p. Though, on the Xbox 360, if you use component you won't get 1080p upscaling. You will get it with VGA or HDMI though.

And what is the BS about HDMI. My 360, my HD DVD, my PS3, my Popcorn Hour and my Digital Set box all use HDMI to my TV. In addition I use a 3 in-2 out HDMI switch so I also can watch everything easily on my projector. Through HDMI.

HDMI is the best thing on the market at the moment, so your comments are not really valid.

Greg: 1080i is not half the resolution of 720p. Once again you are wrong. The difference is that 1080i is interlaced; quite the difference compared to half the resolution. If you have 1080i in 50Hz and display it on a regular TV it is deinterlaced into 25Hz which gives you 1080p but at 25Hz.

LOL, google the component manufacturers who are dropping HDMI in favor of DisplayPort. Mostly because HDMI is expensive and requires all the extra silicon for the mandatory HDCP stuff(HDCP is optional on DisplayPort).

Looking how fast companies are dropping HDMI in favor of DisplayPort (particularly for computer video cards and laptop computers) is almost humerus. Intel, AMD and NVidia have all announced they are dropping HDMI in favor of DisplayPort(again mostly becayse of the high costs of software and silicon needed for HDMI).

If you already have a TV/device that is saddled with HDMI, then I guess you have a point. But this time next year HDMI will be a fading memory now that the big signal generating companies have all dropped it.

Displayport is something meant to replace DVI/HDMI on computers, not to replace HDMI in televisions. I am not saying it can't happen; I am saying it will not happen any time in the foreseeable future.

you are severely mistaken

the xbox 360 can't "upconvert" anything.

Everything on the 360 runs at a fixed resolution- games, movies, even the dashboard.

You have probably heard that "the 360 can scale anything to 1080p!" Dosen't that sound great?!!! 1080p for everyone !!! yay!!1!1

not.

Scaling dosent do ANYTHING for 99% of 360 owners.

People seem to think that scaling and upconverting somehow magicaly turn 720p into 1080p without any performance cost- this is utter bullcrap. Scaling can only degrade the image by introducing the whole new problem of scaling artifacts.

The ONLY BENEFIT of scaling chips, is to make all games compatible with all TVs. Some old-school HDTVs (usually inthe period of time when 1080i was the best you could get- those giant rear projection jawns) can only display 480p and 1080i correctly- any 720p image was downscaled to 480i or some other crap resolution. With a scaler, you can just set your xbox at 1080i, and have the xbox stretch the signal from the game's resolution to the tv's resolution.

This problem applies to about 0.1 percent of 360 owners.

Im kind of wandering with this, but the point is-

popping a dvd into your 360 makes it as standard def as standard def can be- its exactly zero percent HD. The netflix movies your talking about look bad because the 360 just has a poop video processing capabilities so the video ends up looking like something youd download from bittorrent and watch on your pc.

They keep saying "late fall" about stuff like Netflix... I believe last year the Fall update came out during the first week of December.

"Late Fall"

The last day of fall is on December 20th. That would suck.
I bet they will try and release it before Thanksgiving so that they can include the new UI in commercials before the holiday buying season.

If we knew, it would be on the site.

I agree. Since when did "You'll be able to install games to the hard drive" turn into "All new games will require installation to the hard drive".

Hey guess what, cars allow you to shift to reverse and drive backwards. OMG, are we going to be forced to drive backwards everywhere now!??!?!!?