MadchesterManc
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I had an HD ready TV but played mostly on an 800p CRT PC monitor using the 360's VGA cable... absolutely pristine image quality, later I played on a 1050p 16:10 LCD monitor, which sadly meant black bars on top and bottom as games of course didn't support 16:10... but the 360 still thankfully supported the 1680x1050 output resolution so the scaling was perfect
VGA cable was a godsend if you had a launch model 360, getting a 1:1 pixel mapped 1360x768 meant the TV's crappy scaler back then didn't have to do anything so a better picture all around. Also enabled DVD upscaling as VGA bypassed the copy protection that limited component to 480p on DVD playback. Still have the cable for testing X360 at work as its just easier to connect to my work monitor that way instead of connecting up a TV for HDMI.