Xbox 360 VGA HD AV Cable

I recently purchased this cable so that I could use my 360 with on of my computer monitors. My wife no longer allows me to play games in the living room that do not involve my 1 year old daughter. She sucks at both death match and collaborative play so I had to move my 360 to the office.The cable works amazingly well. It allows the 360 to display its picture on any device that has a HID 15 VGA connector. I tried many times for countless hours to get the picture to display using a component cable with my LCD computer monitor, but even using paper clips, glue, and prayer, I was unable to get the picture to work. I finally figured that the holes in the VGA connection on my monitor were just too small to get the RCA jacks to fit in. After I gave up, I saw this cable on Amazon and bought it right away. Using it there is no issue of the holes being too small. The female HID 15 cable plugs directly into the males HID 15 on my monitor! It was tough getting the glue residue off the monitor, but who looks at the back anyway, right?If that wasn't enough, now I can select any resolution I want. While my monitor is a plain jane 1650 * 1080 LCD, I am able to play in full HD. This cable must overclock the extra pixels into the monitor! It is simply amazing. I also took this cable to a friends house and I was able to repair his ring o' deathed 360 simply by placing the clear plastic package the cable came in under his power supply brick. I saved him from having to buy a new console!I will admit he was really not my friend, but I am hopeful. My therapist says that I should reach out to people who have similar interests. Wish me luck.

As soon as I hooked the cable up I noticed the visual upgrade immediately. The XBox 360 dashboard seemed crisper and clearer and the text looked less blurry (this was something I could see with my own eyes, it didn't take looking at some 200% zoom side-by-side comparison photos on some gaming message board to see the difference). The first thing I did to test out the true abilities of this cable was to pop in a slightly-compressed anime DVD that I own. The DVD that showed some obvious artifacts over the previous component cable were nowhere to be found with the VGA cable. The image quality was very smooth. Even the 10th Anniversary edition of Reservoir Dogs (not even the latest version/film transfer) looked noticeably better and could almost be comparable to some hi-def content.The reason for the obvious visual upgrade on the DVD is because of the XBox 360's hidden DVD upconversion that can only be unlocked through the VGA cable (a true gem of a feature!). As far as games go, they already looked amazing with the component cable, but I did notice that they looked a little more defined and brighter. The games did NOT looked washed out like some reviews suggest. I believe that the washed out picture may have been a problem in the past, but Microsoft has since released a fix to the problem over XBox live (if your system is hooked up to the internet, you will get the upgrade for free...no need for a gold account). Most users probably never had the problem at all.The VGA cable still includes a digital audio output, much like the original component cable did, and a headphone-sized adapter plug for the audio cables if your television set only has the single input. Just for the information, VGA is also known as D-Sub, so if your television has a D-Sub video/audio input (like mine did), it will work with this cable. Setup was fairly simple, but not exactly as simple as "plug-and-play". You'll need to know your TVs screen resolution (example: my 27" HDTV was 1366 x 768); a simple google search answered this for me. I also needed to manually change the ratio to Widescreen. Both of these setting are changed through the XBox 360's own display settings (not your television).Obviously, if you have the XBox 360 Elite (black version), you should be using the HDMI cable for the best quality, but for the rest of us with the Premium and Core systems (white versions), the VGA is mandatory to reach the best picture quality on a HDTV. I paid about half the price that this cable retails (bought it off a user on the Amazon marketplace), but after my experience with this cable I would have gladly paid full price for a new cable!

Like I said, it comes with a 3.5mm adapter and a gender changer in the package. Wish I would have known that before buying an extra 3.5mm male to stereo red/white splitter for my TV. Oh well, at least I'll have an extra one of those around just in case...Like I said, this works and looks great. Picture is crisp and clean, and this is the only cable I can hook up to my Xbox 360 that will actually let me set it for the exact resolution of my TV. Well, almost the exact resolution of my TV. My TV runs 1366x768 and using the VGA cable the Xbox 360 will let me set the resolution to 1360x768, which at least means my TV isn't doing as much scaling as it would with a regular 720p or 1080i signal. This way the Xbox does all the work, and the picture looks better because of it (to me at least).Also, something it doesn't show is that this does have the optical plug as well, so if you're looking to output to a receiver using an optical connection you're totally able to do it with this cable.With the component cables actually a few dollars more than this cable here on Amazon, you'd be crazy not to go this route if your TV has an open VGA port.Highly recommended.

I won a TV from a work party. It was a 40" HDTV with 1080P resolution. I was stoked!! I got home and immediately went to hook up my Xbox (the original white one) and it didn't have any component inputs. The Original Xbox360 doesn't have HDMI functionality either. I was crushed. So being the Cheapskate I am I jump on Ebay and buy a cable for 3.00. The Microsoft cable was 40.00!! That's insane! So I wait a week for it to come in and I rip it open plug it in and the picture looks like crap. There is ghosting, the image looks washed out and I was crushed again.After some research I found that the Microsoft cable is the only one on the market that actually works. I was a bit skeptical, why is everything so expensive from microsoft? So I got it last night. I plugged it in and Eureka!!! It looks great I have full 1080 Resoloution and the Colors are bright and vibrant. I am so impressed.If you are looking for a VGA cable for you xbox this is the route to go. Don't waste your time on cheap cables. THIS CABLE WORKS FLAWLESSLY!!!!