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Beats me. I plug my XBOx into my telly via scart and it fills the 16:9 screen nicely. Well, I say nicely. It's a fuck ugly image. I stick the same game on the 360 instead and it's a much nicer image but there's a fat chunk o'black up either side of the screen. Can't shift it.

Ideas?


/edit BRAINWAVE - It's a 480p thing, perhaps?

Edit: double post

Check the output settings on the xboxens.

Press the 'aspect' button (may be called something else) on the telly remote. Also delve through the telly settings menus.

Sorry I can't be more specific, you'll just have to fiddle with it.

Basically, your 360 is outputting a widescreen image to your telly constantly that fills the screen perfectly. When you run Xbox games on it, they're displayed at a 4:3 resolution within that larger widescreen image. Unless your telly has a zoom function, you're not gonna be able to change that because your telly is going to stretch/squash/zoom the whole image which is a 16:9 black screen with a 4:3 game in the middle.

Your old Xbox is only outputting that 4:3 image without a black frame around it and your telly can stretch and squash that image to fit the full screen.

Fiddling in a while. Will report back.

You're probably not going to be able to fix it, because as far as your telly is concerned, it's receiving a perfect widescreen image. It's the 360 that is creating the black bars, not your telly.

Nah, 480p goes all weird.

I think I should get a component cable for my original XBox.

Try 576i