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Xbox 360's 1080p Doesn't Work on Sony's TVs

02 Nov, 2006, 3:00 pm IST | by Nikhil Singh | Console

In a post on the AV Science forum, the newly available 1080p High definition feature that has been made accessible with the Xbox 360's Autumn Update doesn't work with Sony's Bravaria line of Televisions (XBR2/XBR3). Here is what the post by the AVS member says:

"I just had the time to quickly start poking around with the 360 dashboard update, and I'm sorry to report that 1080p is broken on the XBR2 via both component and VGA. When I select 1080p in VGA, I get a windowboxed picture with tons of info cut off on both sides and a warning from the TV saying "Invalid Signal--Check Your PC Output". Over component, when I select 1080p I get a screen full of static for 10 seconds before the console reverts to 1080i.

Feh. Since the XBR2 is one of the most high-profile, wildely available 1080p displays on the market, you'd think MS' engineers would find a way to get the two to work together, but noooooo..."




So what does this mean to Sony's XBR2/XBR3 users? Can't they just use 1080i since the quality is only marginally lower? Here's a breakdown of it according to another post in the same thread:

"According to the evaluation performed by Home Theater Magazine, the XBR2/3 fails the 2:3 cadence recognition test at 1080i, so it will not de-interlace 24fps native material correctly. This is the reason that I, for one, had high hopes for the Xbox 360 update."

This means that most of the Bravaria users must have been looking forward to this patch since it supposedly worked as a fix for the television's inadequacies, but alas, it failed to do so. My vote of confidence goes to Microsoft here since their patch is only a few hours old while Sony's television is quite a few months old, but I guess that we can't be too sure now, can we?

Lets wait and see what measures Microsoft and Sony takes to fix the issue for the unfortunate gamers who've spent a lot of cash on the console and the 1080p TV.



Here's a link to the details of the Xbox 360 November update.

 

Tags: Xbox 360 , Microsoft , Sony , Bravaria , XBR2 , XBR3

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