x box on front screen projector (1 Viewer)

[jason reed]

i have an infocus front screen projector and the guy who helped me install it said its a big mistake to hook up my xbox and play games using the projector. please feel free to let me know why this is or is not true thanks.

 

[Jack Gilvey]

Sounds really silly. Did he say why? XBox on an X1 is great...4805? Nirvana!

 

[David K.]

i think its fine, i play my xbox on an 8 foot screen with my z1

 

[jason reed]

the answer i got had something to do w/severly shortening the life span of the projector. playing games on it would stress the projector because of the massive amounts of colors that come through the games.

 

[Jack Gilvey]

Ahh...that is silly.

 

[stephen la]

I don't have a projector yet, but from what I've learned from others here, I doubt that the amount of colors shown will do anything bad to the projector.
I could see if your friend was worried about the hours you'll clock on the bulb from playing the xbox too long.

however that doesn't look like it will be a problem.
the thing that wears out projector bulbs is powering it up.
so be carefull not to turn it on and off very often.
once or twice a day seems normal

 

[DaveGTP]

HAHAHA

what a load of crap.

Tell him, he's full of crap.

Hook it up, the sooner the better!!!

 

[jason reed]

ok so i am convinced. now my challenge is how do i hook it up. what goes where? HELP

 

[David K.]

simple enough, connect the video cables to your projector, connect audio cables to your surround receiver.

 

[Kenneth Harden]

Ummmm, that isn't ture!!! :b

Same thing as movies, or cartoons, etc.

It is great because there is no burn-in!!!

 

[Marcello]

I'd suggest you to buy x2vga (go with google to find it) to hook it up to the X1. I too have a xbox, I too will buy a projector the panasonic pt-ae500, I too will buy that marvelous gadget...

It'll give you the best vga-out known so far for xbox, at a street price of around $60+shipping, the only bad thing, it has to come from China...

Or, cheaper way, you buy the HDTV official microsoft output cable ($19.99) and go with component. Remember, with component you get astounding quality even with quite a bunch of distance from your xbox to the projector, nevertheless, with x2vga you get slight more quality and you eventually can hook up a pc monitor too, crt or lcd or whatever with a vga integrated. BUT you can't do much meters of connections, 3 meters going to be even too much for vga signal....

Hope this helps.

Marcello

 

[jason reed]

shouldnt i be able to connect it right through the receiver

 

[Dave_vega]

hey David K. I recognize those pictures from teamxbox..It's pounder from TXB..good to see that I know someone on these boards

 

[Max Leung]

Soul Caliber 2 looks absolutely jaw-dropping gorgeous on my DLP projector (Benq 8700+). Just...wow!

Go for it!