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360, HDMI, Westinghouse 37" 1080p; Why does it look so horrible?

post #1 of 8
10/29/08 at 5:41pm
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I bought an Xbox Elite and a Westinghouse 1080p LCD. I recently moved and can't find any of my games, but bought GTA4, so that's all I have for testing. I first hooked my PC up to the TV and it was fairly crisp, but there were ghosting effects that drove me nuts so this is going to be console only. TVs are not my specialty, nor are consoles. I'm using the HDMI cable that came with the Xbox, and the box is set to 1080p output. GTA4's case says it supports 1080p. However, the game looks horrible. The text in the menus is just fine, but the game itself looks like Monster Truck Madness from 1997... Everything is horribly pixellated, overly dark (even with brightness and contrast cranked ridiculously high), and basically has no desirable graphics at all. Needless to say, my $1000 investment has been a huge disappointment. Is there something I'm doing wrong? These TVs get great reviews across the board, as did GTA4 and Xbox 360s in general. Everyone also raves about how great HDMI is. In my opinion, Nintendo 64 had better graphics than this pile of crap.
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post #2 of 8
10/29/08 at 6:18pm
No that is GTA4 the game looks like crap. For Xbox 360 I dont know any games off the top of my head that are going to look to crazy bright but. Rent/BUy HALO 3 that has so bright colors not the best graphics, Fable 1/2 should give you some good effects to test the TV with the spells. Dead Rising has some bright colors and a TON of zombies on screen all at one time.

And the rest of 1080p games as of steves last update:
All Pro Football 2K8
Armored Core 4
Battlefield 2 (Platinum Hits)
The Bigs
Bioshock
Bullet Witch
Call of Duty 3
Call of Juarez
Command & Conquer 3
Dead or Alive 4 (Platinum Hits)
Dance Dance Revolution Universe
Fantastic Four Rise of the Silver Surfer
Fight Night Round 3
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
Harry Potter
Hour of Victory
Icon
Meet The Robinsons
Monster Madness Battle for Suburbia
NCAA 08 Football
NCAA 07 March Madness
Overlord
Pirates of the Carribean
Ratatouilio
Rayman Raving Rabbit
Saints Row
Shadowrun
Spiderman 3
Street Home Court [native]
Superman Returns
Surf’s Up
Tetris Evolution
Two Worlds
UEFA Championship Soccer
Vampire Rain
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post #3 of 8
10/29/08 at 7:17pm
I have the same TV and same 360. Mass Effect looks pretty damn good on it.
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post #4 of 8
10/30/08 at 4:25am



Mass E
Oblivion
Bioshock

and many more look awsome on my 42" Olevia (ya laugh now but it works very well for me)
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post #5 of 8
10/30/08 at 12:38pm
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So even if it says 1080p on the game case, it doesn't actually support 1080p? That sound perfectly logical (/sarcasm)...

Why must PCs be so much better than consoles!?!?!?
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post #6 of 8
10/30/08 at 3:26pm
Technically speaking the 360 outputs in 1080p, but no game is rendered in 1080p, its rendered at a smaller res then scaled......but I digress.

I dont know what reviews you've been reading but Westinghouse has not been at the top of any of the Best Of's Ive seen. That aside, one of my xboxes is an Elite w/ the Hana chip hooked up to an old Sammy 720p DLP and almost everything I stick in that box looks wonderful so I think u have some other problem.
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post #7 of 8
11/11/08 at 5:45pm
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I've been all over the search functions here and on SR as well as google, I can't find "Steves list" anywhere. Anyone have a linky?

Tried out Halo 3 and Forza 2, they look unbelievably better than GTA4. They're still not crisp like I thought they'd be, but I guess that's my fault for not fully researching to see if all Xbox games lie about what they write on the back of the game case.
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post #8 of 8
11/11/08 at 7:21pm
http://www.notebookforums.com/thread203647.html
http://www.notebookforums.com/thread204077.html
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