Will this moniter be better then 720p when used with my 360?

I am looking at this moniter and was wonderiong if used with my 360 by hooking it up with a vga cable will this moniter display the same quality as 720p/i, better or worse?

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/NEW-LG-L204WT-20-Wide-1680x1050-5MS-DVI-Contrast2000-1_W0QQitemZ110142732380QQihZ001QQcategoryZ29503QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Thanksinadvance

Plain and simple. 720p stands for 1280*720, this monitor is 1680*1050, so it easily has the pixels to show 720p. No where in specs does it say it supports 1080p input, so you probably can only select resolutions at or under it's own resolution, set it higher and you'll get an out of range signal. So the highest you'd be able to set it to is 1360*768 with the VGA cable.

Now, from there, understand a PC widescreens are a ratio of 16:10, while 720p is a ratio of 16:9. Hopefully the monitor has several imaging modes to display it correctly. First, iany monitor atleast has a fill or full mode, where no matter the size of the resolution it will stretch it to fill the enitre screen. This means when you give it 16:9 720p it's going to be stretched up and down to fill the 16:10 shape. If it has an "Aspect" mode, perferable, where it will scale the 720p signal to fit the screen as big as it can while keeping the correct shape, which would leave bars on the top and bottom. Then 1:1 is where it's pixel to pixel, so with 1280*720 (720p) it would use exactly 1280 pixels agross on the screen and 720 down, leaving the rest of the pixels blank (it would appear smaller in the middle of the screen)

It looks like a good monitor, probably can't go wrong.

What the hell is he talking about? No offence but all this technical gizmolizmo is getting me confused, all I get is him saying "which is better" or something..Alpha172

The monitor has enough detail to show 720p. So that's fine.

The monitor can show a lot more detail but it doesn't support the other HD signal of 1080p so you can't use that extra detail, only 720p on it. If you attempt 1080p or 1080i you'll just get an error message on the screen.

This monitor is not the correct widescreen shape, 720p picture is wider, so either it will be distorted to fit the monitor, or it could have black bars on the top and bottom. This is the case with all PC monitors.

Lastly, being an LCD, and it not having exactly 720p resolution, 720p will look slightly softer. but not bad enough to look horrible. Most 720p HDTVs are not exactly 720p either because it saves companies money.

Overall, it's a cheap way to get into HD gaming. The quality is about the same as a real HDTV. There are other 20.1inch and 22inch widescreen PC monitors that are more future proof that atleast support 1080p input and support HDCP so you can also use it with a PS3 that must have that copy protection in order for an HDMI to DVI cable to work (only way to connect a PS3 since it doens't have a VGA cable).