1080p Over VGA?

[zomgorly]

I sent the guys at revision3 an email but I thought I ask here as well and be a little more elaborate. Some time ago I bought a HD DVD player for my Xbox 360, I have an older Xbox 360 that doesn’t have HDMI cable. After I bought it I connected it via component and noticed I was only getting 720p signal when playing my movies and after a little research was told in order to play movies with 1080p I would need to use a XBox 360 VGA cable. The Xbox 360 has different copyright restrictions for VGA than it does on component which only allows 1080i. When I think of VGA I think of old 640 x 480 picture. So how am I really getting a 1080p signal out of the xbox 360 VGA?

[peter-gandalf]

I guess the xbox360 could send a 1080p signal over a vga cable but my tv and many others only support a maximum resolution of 720p through the vga input on the set.

Check your television's manual to see if it can accept a 1080p signal through the vga port.

[zomgorly]

It says I get 1080 signal on the TV, thats not what i am asking. I tell people that I get 1080 with the cable and they try to tell me its VGA so its not true 1080 that it must be up converted or something. So I am trying to figure out why Xbox 360s say I can get a 1080p signal with a VGA cable connected?

[vegan]

When I think of VGA I think of old 640 x 480 picture.

Why? Computers have been sending resolutions much, much higher than that through VGA cables for at least a decade.

[zomgorly]

I think I am confusing VGA cable specifications with video standards.

[zomgorly]

I was thinking about switching to the HDMI Xbox 360 but is there any reason to if much my Xbox is doing a 1080p analog signal vs hdmi 1080p digital?

[peter-gandalf]

The image might be a little sharper with hdmi since there is no conversion happening.