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Karma
Jack's Smirking Revenge
vga will up scale normal dvds played through 360
I don't think HDMI will
I don't think HDMI will
Karma
Jack's Smirking Revenge
Anyone played with the screenshots or movies? It's amazing! Here is a shot just moments after my second kill ever in Halo 3.
some shots of tonight's smackdowns posted here would be funny
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I sent you an invite yesterday. You get it?
I am using the composite cables on my TV and it is in glorious 1080p
yeah i couldn't get to the online part. hopefully i'll see some of you guys tonight.
you mean component cables?
The ill Jedi
ILLest of 'em all!!
That's the one!
RogueJedi30
Freaked Out
You are correct a 360 with HDMI does not upscale DVDs it upconverts them, which is actually the preffered method. Upscaling does just as it states it scales the picture to fit your screen/resolution, upconverting actually doubles the pixels and applies some form of AA to give you an almost HD image. All consumer available products that upconvert are required to do so over HDMI due to the security of the HDMI format. There are ways to do it without HDMI but the legality is questionable.
HDMI offers everything that Component and VGA does plus a little more.
Halo 3 runs at a native 720p and the 360 will upscale it all the way to 1080p or any VGA resolution that the 360 supports using either VGA, Component or HDMI.
DVDs run at a native 480p and the 360 will upscale them up to 1080p or any VGA resolution using VGA or component. The 360 will upconvert up to 1080p only over HDMI.
BadMoon
Demi G0D Overseer
As soon as I eat my chinese I will be back on.
IronFingaz
GO CELTICS!!!
Kick ass man, your parents RULE Anders!! Thank your mom & dad and give them a hug for me!!
Pitu isn't exactly a pushover, but it is fun killing him just to hear what kind of funny sound he will make!
They sure do!!!
and i'll make sure to thank them from youDoes everybody wear headsets while you play on live?
Yippy
Brothers to the end
I'll be on in a little bit. Looking forward to some more gaming with the freaks.
JediMike71
GEAUX SAINTS!
I always wear a headset when I'm on Xbox Live. A nice one too. It's one made by Turtle Beach that is wireless, and has two headphone speakers, instead of just one headphone speaker you get on the flimsy cheap one you get with the 360. It cost me about $100 last Christmas, but I didn't care. It is well worth the money!
It is called the "Ear Force X2" wireless Xbox headphones. Here's the link to it at Turtle Beach's website:
https://www.turtlebeach.com/products/efx2/home.aspx
Since I've got the X2 last year, they've made a better X3 headset. I hope to get that one someday.
I'll be online again tonight with Halo 3. My Xbox Live gamertag is: JediMike71, the same as my board member name here! Take care and I hope to hook up with you guys on there again tonight. It was a lot of fun last night!
That's a cool in game picture of your 2nd kill Karma! I want to play with those new features on Halo 3 tonight too!
It is called the "Ear Force X2" wireless Xbox headphones. Here's the link to it at Turtle Beach's website:
https://www.turtlebeach.com/products/efx2/home.aspx
Since I've got the X2 last year, they've made a better X3 headset. I hope to get that one someday.
I'll be online again tonight with Halo 3. My Xbox Live gamertag is: JediMike71, the same as my board member name here! Take care and I hope to hook up with you guys on there again tonight. It was a lot of fun last night!
That's a cool in game picture of your 2nd kill Karma! I want to play with those new features on Halo 3 tonight too!
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what about playing games? hdmi or vga, which is superior?
Actually, on my display the VGA looked slightly better than the HDMI did. But I prefer HDMI since it's got both the audio and the video in the same cable.
RogueJedi30
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Visually neither, they are both digital signals and offer great visuals. It only pepends on what your plugging it into, but that's where it gets tricky:
With VGA you have more control over resolution, so you can set the resolution to exactly what your monitor/tv natively displays. It takes the monitor/tvs scaling out of the picture (which is good cause some less expensive LCDs do a crappy job of scaling.) But the 360 does not yet support all LCD resolutions, such as 1440x900 or 1680x1050, as these are actually 16/10 aspect ratios. So connecting using VGA and setting to resolution that is a 16/9 aspect ratio will cause some stretching. If thats the case HDMI would be the way to go if your LCD has it. My guess is this will be fixed in the next update.
HDMI only offers the standard HD signals/resolutions, 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i and 1080p. This is arguablly better for most plasma/lcd TVs that use one of these as their true native resolution.
I can tell you for sure that DVDs look tons better with HDMI and upconverting. I also have the HD-DVD drive and its tough to tell the difference sometimes (bear in mind I do not have a 1080p display). HDMI also has the bonus of carrying digital audio too so you only need one cable from 360 to your tv.
If my TV offered both, I would use HDMI because of DVDs. But if I only used the 360 for games, and none of the stuff above applied to my situation I would use whichever cable I had laying around...
Wow that was probably way too much information, 
Can you tell I'm bored off my a$$ at work
Fritz
My muse is a fickle b**ch
Damn you guys are making me jealous. I went to an EB here and actually almost bought Halo 2 PC tonight to play on my laptop and then I remembered I brought my Windows XP laptop with me. 
I read through the Halo 3 game guide this morning and it recommended playing on Normal difficulty if you've never played Halo before. But I'm too cool for that so I'm going to play on heroic.
And when I get back next week and have a chance to go on-line someone is going to get pwned! :emperor
I read through the Halo 3 game guide this morning and it recommended playing on Normal difficulty if you've never played Halo before. But I'm too cool for that so I'm going to play on heroic.
And when I get back next week and have a chance to go on-line someone is going to get pwned! :emperor
https://m0001.gamecopyworld.com/games/pc_halo_2.shtml#Halo 2 WINXP LOADER v0.2
You can install Halo 2 Vista on XP
You can install Halo 2 Vista on XP
Fritz
My muse is a fickle b**ch
Thanks for the info but this system isn't good enough anyway. It's a 2.66GHz Celeron and only 512MB of RAM. Plus the video controller probably isn't good enough either.
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Visually neither, they are both digital signals and offer great visuals. It only pepends on what your plugging it into, but that's where it gets tricky:
With VGA you have more control over resolution, so you can set the resolution to exactly what your monitor/tv natively displays. It takes the monitor/tvs scaling out of the picture (which is good cause some less expensive LCDs do a crappy job of scaling.) But the 360 does not yet support all LCD resolutions, such as 1440x900 or 1680x1050, as these are actually 16/10 aspect ratios. So connecting using VGA and setting to resolution that is a 16/9 aspect ratio will cause some stretching. If thats the case HDMI would be the way to go if your LCD has it. My guess is this will be fixed in the next update.
HDMI only offers the standard HD signals/resolutions, 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i and 1080p. This is arguablly better for most plasma/lcd TVs that use one of these as their true native resolution.
I can tell you for sure that DVDs look tons better with HDMI and upconverting. I also have the HD-DVD drive and its tough to tell the difference sometimes (bear in mind I do not have a 1080p display). HDMI also has the bonus of carrying digital audio too so you only need one cable from 360 to your tv.
If my TV offered both, I would use HDMI because of DVDs. But if I only used the 360 for games, and none of the stuff above applied to my situation I would use whichever cable I had laying around...
Can you tell I'm bored off my a$$ at work
thanks man. i have it hooked up to a 22" samsung monitor that has DVI. i don't have a 360 has has hdmi so i only have the vga choice right now. when i get another 360 i'll probably try out the hdmi cable and use the hdmi/dvi adapter to try that out.
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well i finished halo earlier and have to say i wish they would have had some "grand" battles at some point where there were large number of characters on screen but i enjoyed it, as I have all of them. looking at all the options there are with multiplayer, theater, etc. the total package has SO much to offer. i finished bioshock last week and am on the second time through harvesting the little girls(that just sounds wrong) and am looking forward to the next great 360 game and there are plenty on the way. :chew
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although i'm not a player, here's some online tips i found. do not read on if you want to go it fresh and without a raging clue.
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Knowing is half the battle, sayeth noted pundit G.I. Joe. The other half, at least for the first-person shooter Halo 3, is getting the basics down. Using these simple tips will help you begin your journey to Halo mastery.
Or they'll at least keep you from dying like clockwork every six seconds.
Step One: Know thy enemy...
The simplest thing you can do to stay alive in Halo 3's single-player adventure is to understand your enemy. You'll be facing a host of Covenant forces, from bumblebee-like drones to hulking Brutes. Each type of foe has its own set of reactions, battle tactics, and weapons. Once you know what a given enemy class is capable of, and what it's going to do in a given situation, you will be well prepared for a meaningful dialogue with it -- by which we mean kill the rat bastard and mock its corpse.
Diminutive grunts, for example, will panic in the face of pressure; kill the Brute leader they support, and the Grunts will throw up their arms and scatter. Jackals serve as snipers and, on the game's heroic difficulty level, are crack shots. When they're around it's best to use stealth to kill the ground enemies they support so as to find a good vantage point from which to snipe them, or else move from cover point to cover point to avoid their deadly fire.
Later on, during the Flood levels, Halo 3 becomes more of a run-and-gun affair. Here, it's not so much necessary to recognize the different Flood types, but rather escape from them. In fact, shooting some of the Flood is just asking for trouble; the little, twitching, bulbous-headed Flood (Flood carrier forms) will explode when shot, releasing a horde of tiny parasites in the process.
Step two: It's tool time!
Do not neglect your tools. They're handy in so many ways.
Bubble shields are invaluable, especially when Master Chief's facing a host of enemies and cover isn't readily available. Dropping one will give you the time you need to reload, recover lost shield power, and plot a new strategy.
Portable gravity lifts can be dropped in doorways or narrow corridors, creating a perfect trap for foes. Any enemy foolish enough to wander over one will be thrust upward toward the ceiling and rendered helpless. From here, it's easy to either shoot them or lob a grenade toward the generator (the generator will then hurl the grenade upward) to dispatch the trapped foes.
A power drainer is great to use on a concentrated group of enemies. It rapidly depletes enemy shields, and will kill anything stupid enough to remain in its area of effect. Players can then follow up the drainer's destructive attack with grenades, or simply plow through the problem spot with little resistance.
In multiplayer games, other players' radar can be temporarily wrecked with a radar jammer. This is great for players who like to take the high ground and snipe suckers from a distance, or for less experienced players who rely on praying and spraying (with the battle rifle, machine gun, etc.) or those who like to dispatch their foes close up with melee attacks.
Step three: Learn this combo...
The ability to wield two weapons at once is a godsend in Halo 3. Covenant enemies such as the Brutes now use armor, and taking them out while it's intact is really tough.
It may seem like an unlikely combination, but the pistol and pistol combination (human and Covenant plasma) works extremely well against armored or shielded foes. Charge up the plasma pistol by holding down the fire trigger (either left or right, depending on which hand the plasma pistol is being held in, and shoot when the pistol begins to hum and shake. This will knock out shields and destroy armor, allowing for two or three quick shots with the human pistol-a surefire way to destroy any foe.
Step four: One last thing...
Always aim for the head. One well-placed head shot is worth 5-10 hits on an enemy's body.
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Knowing is half the battle, sayeth noted pundit G.I. Joe. The other half, at least for the first-person shooter Halo 3, is getting the basics down. Using these simple tips will help you begin your journey to Halo mastery.
Or they'll at least keep you from dying like clockwork every six seconds.
Step One: Know thy enemy...
The simplest thing you can do to stay alive in Halo 3's single-player adventure is to understand your enemy. You'll be facing a host of Covenant forces, from bumblebee-like drones to hulking Brutes. Each type of foe has its own set of reactions, battle tactics, and weapons. Once you know what a given enemy class is capable of, and what it's going to do in a given situation, you will be well prepared for a meaningful dialogue with it -- by which we mean kill the rat bastard and mock its corpse.
Diminutive grunts, for example, will panic in the face of pressure; kill the Brute leader they support, and the Grunts will throw up their arms and scatter. Jackals serve as snipers and, on the game's heroic difficulty level, are crack shots. When they're around it's best to use stealth to kill the ground enemies they support so as to find a good vantage point from which to snipe them, or else move from cover point to cover point to avoid their deadly fire.
Later on, during the Flood levels, Halo 3 becomes more of a run-and-gun affair. Here, it's not so much necessary to recognize the different Flood types, but rather escape from them. In fact, shooting some of the Flood is just asking for trouble; the little, twitching, bulbous-headed Flood (Flood carrier forms) will explode when shot, releasing a horde of tiny parasites in the process.
Step two: It's tool time!
Do not neglect your tools. They're handy in so many ways.
Bubble shields are invaluable, especially when Master Chief's facing a host of enemies and cover isn't readily available. Dropping one will give you the time you need to reload, recover lost shield power, and plot a new strategy.
Portable gravity lifts can be dropped in doorways or narrow corridors, creating a perfect trap for foes. Any enemy foolish enough to wander over one will be thrust upward toward the ceiling and rendered helpless. From here, it's easy to either shoot them or lob a grenade toward the generator (the generator will then hurl the grenade upward) to dispatch the trapped foes.
A power drainer is great to use on a concentrated group of enemies. It rapidly depletes enemy shields, and will kill anything stupid enough to remain in its area of effect. Players can then follow up the drainer's destructive attack with grenades, or simply plow through the problem spot with little resistance.
In multiplayer games, other players' radar can be temporarily wrecked with a radar jammer. This is great for players who like to take the high ground and snipe suckers from a distance, or for less experienced players who rely on praying and spraying (with the battle rifle, machine gun, etc.) or those who like to dispatch their foes close up with melee attacks.
Step three: Learn this combo...
The ability to wield two weapons at once is a godsend in Halo 3. Covenant enemies such as the Brutes now use armor, and taking them out while it's intact is really tough.
It may seem like an unlikely combination, but the pistol and pistol combination (human and Covenant plasma) works extremely well against armored or shielded foes. Charge up the plasma pistol by holding down the fire trigger (either left or right, depending on which hand the plasma pistol is being held in, and shoot when the pistol begins to hum and shake. This will knock out shields and destroy armor, allowing for two or three quick shots with the human pistol-a surefire way to destroy any foe.
Step four: One last thing...
Always aim for the head. One well-placed head shot is worth 5-10 hits on an enemy's body.
bagelsncheesey
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Good time again last night fellas.
Although I sucked it up, was way too drunk. I'll keep it slower tonight
Although I sucked it up, was way too drunk. I'll keep it slower tonight
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