Xbox 360 to 30 inch HD cinema Display

peekah · Nov 26, 2007

hi!

I was wondering if it is possible to connect my Xbox 360, which has HD component connectors, to my 30 inch mac display. Would it be better if i got a HDMI connector? Does mac offer a adapter?

-chris

bobtomay · Nov 26, 2007

Doubt it.
HDMI will do you no good since the display does not have a HDMI connection.

It only has a DVI connection and requires a dual link dvi video card.
Have no clue whether the card in the 360 is dual link or not.

The only thing you could try would be to get the Xbox 360 VGA cable.
Then either a) a vga to dvi adapter and a dvi cable, or b) a vga to dvi cable.

Offer no guarantees that it will work, nor that it wouldn't damage the display.

xstep · Nov 27, 2007

peekah said:
Does mac offer a adapter?

No, mac does not offer an adapter because it is an inanimate object. Also the correct abbreviation for Macintosh is Mac. I also know you do not have a "30 inch mac display". Perhaps you are talking about products from a company named Apple Inc., commonly referred to as Apple.

It would be cool to see the Xbox display to the 30 inch display, if it can take advantage of the full resolution. From the little I could find out, it looks to me like the Xbox can only do as high as 1080p. The Apple 30" display has a higher resolution than that.

mynameis · Nov 27, 2007

bobtomay said:
Then either a) a vga to dvi adapter and a dvi cable, or b) a vga to dvi cable.

In order to go from an analog VGA signal to a digital DVI signal you will need more than cables to do the conversion. There are conversion boxes but they are pretty expensive: Example.

bobtomay · Nov 27, 2007

mynameis said:
In order to go from an analog VGA signal to a digital DVI signal you will need more than cables to do the conversion. There are conversion boxes but they are pretty expensive: Example.

Think he's correct. Didn't think about that side of the issue, but the 30" cinema probably doesn't accept an anaolg signal since it requires a dual link dvi. And my method above would be doing just that, passing the analog signal through the dvi cable.

peekah · Nov 28, 2007

xstep said:
No, mac does not offer an adapter because it is an inanimate object. Also the correct abbreviation for Macintosh is Mac. I also know you do not have a "30 inch mac display". Perhaps you are talking about products from a company named Apple Inc., commonly referred to as Apple.

It would be cool to see the Xbox display to the 30 inch display, if it can take advantage of the full resolution. From the little I could find out, it looks to me like the Xbox can only do as high as 1080p. The Apple 30" display has a higher resolution than that.

Oops my bad.

Need to learn this stuff. LOL

kirby14 · Nov 28, 2007

xstep said:
No, mac does not offer an adapter because it is an inanimate object. Also the correct abbreviation for Macintosh is Mac. I also know you do not have a "30 inch mac display". Perhaps you are talking about products from a company named Apple Inc., commonly referred to as Apple.

It would be cool to see the Xbox display to the 30 inch display, if it can take advantage of the full resolution. From the little I could find out, it looks to me like the Xbox can only do as high as 1080p. The Apple 30" display has a higher resolution than that.

Just because it CAN display a higher resolution doesn't mean it has to. If you have HDMI, you can use an HDMI -> DVI adapter, since they are basically the same thing with HDMI also including audio.