Xbox 360 DVD playback?

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#1 bsager87
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Has anyone noticed that the 360 DVD playback is of far less quality than a PS2 or a standard DVD player?
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#2 Rossdaboss777
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Yes it is but i hear it could be updated
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#3 oldschoolplayer
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Hmm I did not notice a difference. I did notice that it is about a gazzillion times faster loading and starts movies before the first piece of popcorn hit my mouth. Navigational menu is awesome too. I dont really use my 360 for movies anyways. I just got mine a few days ago and I did watch a few just to make sure it was working correctly while under my year warranty.
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#4 gp19
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I have my 360 connected through VGA (only way you can get DVDs upscaled) and it's the best player in my house.
PS: Its slightly better than the PS3 also.
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#5 wanker12
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i've been using my 360 to play dvd's since my player went belly up a few months ago, i can't tell any difference in picture quality.
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#6 BeanTownBrown86
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really, when i play dvds they look great
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#7 Schumi7WDC
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I could not disagree more.  The PS2 DVD playback sucks.  It's features are very obstructive to see and use with the popup menu during playback.  The 360 on the other hand has a much more easy to use and visually appealing popup menu, it's fast scanning is much smoother and has more variations than the PS2, picture quality is easily superior to PS2 as well, I just cannot see how you can say the PS2 has better playback of DVDs.  Maybe if your using a CRT tv, and hooking up both with composite cables, then maybe, but I wouldn't know about that, since I have both hooked up to LCD flatscreens.  The PS2 with component cables, and the 360 hooked up via VGA with Toslink audio. 
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#8 immortality20
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The 360 looks great on my LCD tv and on my monitor, I use it to watch all my burned movies and normal ones.

So whatever, never had a problem.

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#9 teebeenz
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http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2088531,00.asp This has details on the 360s DVD playback including comparisons with other players.