Xbox 360 HD DVD playing at 1080i?

I bought a HD DVD player for my Xbox 360 the other day and promptly bought a HD DVD movie to play on it (with my 1080p TV!).

I was slightly confused as to why it was displaying at 1080i instead of 1080p and I just found out that it's because I am connecting with component cables which can only output HD-DVD to 1080i on my TV. Games are fine at 1080p (more than fine!!) but it looks like I will have to use a VGA cable to connect the 360 to the TV if I want to watch HD-DVD in the super fine 1080p setting.

I found out here

I can't wait to get back home and swap cables!

new games channel on sky!

I have been watching the new channel on sky (291) called Xleague.tv

what a great channel!! they have a program called "the match" where they show team games like gears of war and command and conquer with match commentators who talk you through the games that are being played. The other day, they were showing a Rainbow 6 capture the capsule game and it was great to watch it happen over the shoulder of the different players.

The commentary also helps you find out special areas that are good for camping and defending, great work sky tv!!

see Xleague TV here

Gears of War on the Xbox360

I lurve this advert

Brighter version of my race

Here's a version of my burnout revenge race put through a virutal dub lightening filter so you can actually see what is going on...

Why don't they fall over on demand?

I set my dvd recorder going to record my partners daughter playing Fifa2006 because she always sees something funny while she's playing like a referree doing silly things or a USA player scoring a silly own goal but last night nothing funny happened for a whole DVD-rw!

So much for finding some gems! I have got some good HD movies on my latest demo disc so I might have to encode them and get them on here soon.

Until then then!

I made my first xbox 360 gameplay video

I finally got around to getting a dvd recorder and this is the first thing I recorded.
It's a race from burnout revenge on the xbox 360. It seems to have encoded a bit darker than it played but I think that's just my tv setting being so high. I had to set the output to PAL50 instead of PAL60 but I don't know if that makes any difference.

More gameplay videos needed on Google Video

I've noticed a distinct lack of videos on Google video for Xbox 360 games so I am almost at the point of buying a DVD recorder and making some of my own. I know someone that can play Fifa06 really well and also I can burn a mean burnout game online so maybe it's time I started creating my own videos.

It's a nice opportunity to get this site noticed on Google video and then .... the world!!