I don't feel like I am getting the most out of the hd on my xbox. Whenever I play a game or watch something on Netflix i don't think it looks as good as it can.
" How are you connecting? Component (Red Green Blue), Composite (Red Yellow White), or HDMI? "
make sure you have the hdmi cable. component is only 720 i believe "
Wrong. Component can do up to 1080p. However, you have to set it the plug that goes into the 360 to HDTV, otherwise all you'll get is a 480p picture with a slightly better color balance. Composite can only do 480i.
@Fish_Face_McGee: Component may do up to 1080p out, but it is still an analogue connection so HDMI should be used if your 360 supports it. Apart from that, remember that this generation of consoles isn't built for resolutions that high; in 1080p mode, the 360's internal scaler is merely stretching a 720p (possibly less) image to 1080p, so the difference between 720p and 1080p modes over HDMI is really very small.
Waaaaaaaaaaaay too little details in the OP's post to suggest any solutions/issues here. Also, most of these posts are full of half truths and fallacys. Maybe you should take your question to a more A/V oriented site like AVSforum.com.
netflix doesn't really do HD as the quality depends on the internet speed. if u have a slow internet connection then u won't get HD. when i tried netflix out my internet is slow when i watched a movie normal it looked horrible. sometimes it would have to buff the video.
" @Fish_Face_McGee: Component may do up to 1080p out, but it is still an analogue connection so HDMI should be used if your 360 supports it. Apart from that, remember that this generation of consoles isn't built for resolutions that high; in 1080p mode, the 360's internal scaler is merely stretching a 720p (possibly less) image to 1080p, so the difference between 720p and 1080p modes over HDMI is really very small. "
If you're talking about games, yes that is true. If you're talking about video then no it's not. Video output from the XBOX 360 is whatever resolution the target output is set to. So if you set it to 1080p, it will render the video from the XBOX 360 natively and via the Media Center Extender at 1080p. This is true for VGA and Component, except in a few rare cases where component output switches to 480p for certain video codecs where they specify a 480p output AND your TV supports 480p mode switch controls (generally for 480p PAL 50hz) via component, otherwise it won't switch resolutions and the video just scales up from 480p to whatever target res you set your console for.
Secondly there is a wealth of difference in video quality between 720p and 1080p if the video was rendered at 1080p regardless of interface - VGA, Component or HDMI.
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