I picked up a third party VGA cable for my Xbox 360 today and I have to say it was worth every penny of the $30 I spent on it and associated adapters for audio and coupling two VGA cables together.

I hooked my 360 up to my computer monitor and set it to run at 720p (1280×720) and it looks awesome. I didn’t play around with it much, but I like it so far. Some text in some games that was hard to read before is perfectly legible now.

My love affair with CRT monitors is still going strong and this is helping to reinforce it. You just can’t get sharpness like this out of an LCD without paying thousands of dollars and even then it many are not as sharp as a cheap CRT.

Next time I fire it up I think I will give 1280×1024 resolution a shot, but I think 720p is the way to go since it is widescreen. The letterboxing doesn’t bug me and stuff is really designed better for widescreen these days.