Can You Read X360 Text?

[Mr Light]

This is something that bugs the hell out of me. I have a 29 inch TV and it's not high def. I have perfectly fine vision. I'm not sitting that far away. But I cannot read the majority of the teeny weeny tiny winy text on most XBox 360 games! It's so goddamn small... and the characters are literally so fuzzy on my tv pixels that even if you walk up to the screen you can't see if that's a 1 or a 3 or a 8! So when I go to load a game I can't read the time log on the save files to know which file is the most recent! So whenever I get those little "text stories" on Dead Space I can't even read them... and I usually can't read the controller explanation so if it ain't in the manual I don't know how to do that action!

Does this happen to others without high-def? I swear this is my number one arguement for finally wasting the money on a new TV.

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

Yup, it's your standard def tv. It's one of the biggest complaints from people without HDTVs. So, time to make the upgrade.

 

[Brikar99]

There's no setting to increase the size? I know when I brought my PS3 to my parents' house for Thanksgiving so the cousins could play Rock Band, I hooked it up to the old TV in the basement and changed the settings appropriately and the text was HUGE.

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

That would be entirely based on the individual game. Most games on the 360 and PS3 these days are optimized for HDTVs. On a standard definition TV, the text will often be too small to read. It's really do or die time for upgrading to an HDTV.

 

[firehawk12]

Yeah. I don't think I've even seen a game with text options any more.

 

[JonathonWally]

I don't have any problems viewing the text on 360 or PS3 games on a standard def television.

 

[Shazam!]

I don't have any problems viewing the text on 360 or PS3 games on a standard def television.

Ironically, it only gets harder to read the larger the TV.

 

[Emher]

Same problem here, have a 32 inch Sony Trinitron Widescreen. When I bought it was about as good as you got with regular TVs. Then of coure flat screens started dropping in price... When I get the money I'm buying the same or the later version of the Samsung 47 inch (I think it was 47) Full HD LCD TV that my cousin has. Honestly the best TV I've seen and very sympathetically priced.

 

[JonathonWally]

Eh, I don't watch that much TV, so I'm no hurry to go HD.

 

[firehawk12]

It all depends on the font size the games use.

Look at it this way - on TV commercials, there's a reason why the fine print is so small - it's next to impossible to read on an SDTV.

 

[markwough]

I’ve downloaded some games for my xbox from internet , but how can i transfer them in my xbox ? does anybody knows ? by macbook i mean
I would be thankful if somebody helps me.

 

[Yoda]

I’ve downloaded some games for my xbox from internet , but how can i transfer them in my xbox ? does anybody knows ? by macbook i mean
I would be thankful if somebody helps me.

Borat, you've got to be kidding me!

The short answer is you can't talk about how to pirate games here.

 

[Servo]

Eh, I don't watch that much TV, so I'm no hurry to go HD.

Unless you're going to subscrbe to HD TV channels, then the amount of TV you watch hardly comes into it. I can count on the fingers of one hand how many TV shows I watch regularly, and the primary reasons I upgraded to a HD television were for gaming and watching Blu-Rays.

 

[Nerdius Maximus]

I’ve downloaded some games for my xbox from internet , but how can i transfer them in my xbox ? does anybody knows ? by macbook i mean
I would be thankful if somebody helps me.

Place one hand on the X-box and the other on the macbook. Now, close your eyes and concentrate really, really hard. Focus on the transmission of the data. Allow yourself to be the conduit through which it flows...

 

[Nerdius Maximus]

Eh, I don't watch that much TV, so I'm no hurry to go HD.

Unless you're going to subscrbe to HD TV channels, then the amount of TV you watch hardly comes into it. I can count on the fingers of one hand how many TV shows I watch regularly, and the primary reasons I upgraded to a HD television were for gaming and watching Blu-Rays.

Don't you get your HD channels at no additional charge to your cable bill? If not, that sucks.

 

[Servo]

Eh, I don't watch that much TV, so I'm no hurry to go HD.

Unless you're going to subscrbe to HD TV channels, then the amount of TV you watch hardly comes into it. I can count on the fingers of one hand how many TV shows I watch regularly, and the primary reasons I upgraded to a HD television were for gaming and watching Blu-Rays.

Don't you get your HD channels at no additional charge to your cable bill? If not, that sucks.

Yeah, we get HD channels on Sky and Freesat that are free, such as the BBC and ITV HD channels, but I wasn't sure how it worked in the US. I was really just using it as a loose example of how little TV factored into my decision to go HD. It's all about the gaming and the Blu-Rays, baby.