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[Masta_Killah]

So this week I was over at a friends house and I got the chance to play CoD4 on his new 22" Dell Ultra LCD monitor. He was running it through VGA, at a resolution of 1080 x 720(I think not too sure), and the IQ was just amazing(truely photorealistic). When I got the game and ran it through my Samsung 32" 720p LCD television and I noticed that the black level wasn't as solid as his monitor(patches of grey) and I can see small "dust" specs on the screen. My question is, will a VGA cable correct, or at least improve it? I need to know whether it does improve the quality before plunking down $50 on the cable. I know there are cheaper cables, but the official XBox one has optical, which I need for my sound system.

Also, I've used the vga cable before(the cheap one found at Frys), but the image was all funky and weird looking(couldn't figure it out so I just returned it). My tv has a vga input, so I don't know why it did this. Is it because of the settings in the 360, or is it due to the tv not being properly being set?

 

[bran]

Assuming you were running 720p through component, no, VGA will not give you a "OMFG" improvement. Try adjusting the contrast/saturatiotn settings on your TV instead.

 

[Mr. Spinnington]

You can get the official Microsoft one off amazon for $18 shipped.

 

[Dr Zhivago]

There are some settings in the 360 dashboard you can tweak for VGA.

 

[C- Warrior]

There are some settings in the 360 dashboard you can tweak for VGA.

Yeah, change your display settings to extended (black levels).

I don't know why people always assume the worst before simply checking the display (key word: DISPLAY) settings.