Hi guys,
Just a quick controversial question. Will an xbox 360 hooked up to a 4K monitor work?
The reason I ask is that this one time my friend plugged his ps3 into a 1650x1050 monitor which is 16:10 ratio and it wouldn't show anything on the screen, so I was wondering if the same would happen with a 4K monitor, ratios aside.
Cheers.
no clue as to why your friend can't get his monitor to work, but yes, any device (including consoles) will hook up to a 4K monitor, as long as it has HDMI. (if it doesn't, you would have to get an HDMI to 'whatever your monitor has' adapter. but most likely it has HDMI).
yeah..... in Netflix. XD only a small handful of 360 titles are Native 1080p. let's just round down and say he will get 720p XD *goes back to Pre-Ordering Destiny for PS3 after loving the beta*...... <.<
It should but as people have said. Xbox 360 can only physicly output at 1080p. So the display will upscale to 4k. But most games are already upscaled from 720p in the first place. Might be better off setting the display settings in the xbox at 720p and then let the 4k display upscale from 720p to 4k.
Im talking specificly for games. You would get a sharper image upscaling from 720p instead of upscaling twice from 720p to 1080p then to 4k. It probably makes little difference but there is a possibility of a better image.
Hahaha I thought people might shit their pants a bit here..
I'm not fucking stupid, I know that my 360 is 720p, and will only play games at 720p but that's not the point.
The main reason I'm asking is that I may be getting a 4K monitor and I want to be able to plug my xbox into it so that I can have a more focused gaming experience on it for games like Battlefield 1943, the only working Battlefield game left, that's only on console, cry me a river. So I was wanting to know if it'd work.
I've also tried playing a console on a 1280x1024 screen and that didn't work either.. which has led me to think that it's a ratio issue, but then again I used to use the same console 6 years ago on a square CRT TV so the ratio thing still wouldn't be right.. For the 1024p screen I was using an HDMI to DVI converter but I was also using that for me current 1080p display and that did work so I don't think it's the cable.
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That makes sense actually, i'll test it out if I ever get the chance. I have a feeling that it will be like YouTube though where 1080p just means 'good quality' and 720p means 'ok'. This reason I know this is because if you ever play a song on Youtube that just has a picture in the video, changing the 'video quality' actually changes the sound quality too. Also 1080p doesn't play 1080p, just some shitty upscaled 720p or low bit rate 1080p
Youtube scales audio quality with video quality. If a video is 320p but it has 1080p level audio like a music video, You will still download the larger (But still shit) video at 1080p but yes, Youtube 1080p is shit. Its a low bitrate 1080p feed.
I have used my Xbox 360 (fat elite) on a 900p screen, 768p screen and 1050p screen. Oh and a few 1080p screens. All never had problems. they just changed the ratio that the games render at and then upscale. So technicly the xbox wont render at 720p on a 1050p screen. The ratio is different. So the Xbox choses a similar resolution with a better ratio for the display.
Hmm.. I wonder why the 1024p monitor at school didn't work then.. Maybe it's just ps3s that don't like 1050p monitors or something?
Oh well Hopefully it'll work if I ever get to the stage of plugging the 360 into a 4K screen.
Thanks Rudster for the help :)
You missed out the "And don't accidentally hit the ignorance switch in between the elitist and infallible buttons like I did!" part.
It would be fine. Although... it would be similar to being served sh*t on a silver plate.