xbox 360 is not hd i think

I love my 360, but I dont get how it outputs HD when playing games of a DVD. You can now get DVD players with HDMI cables to upscale regular DVD's to 720p, but to get real hd experience you need to buy HD DVD player, hence to play games in HD they should be on a HD disc, someone please help

Short answer: Xbox 360 game =/= DVD movie.

Long answer: DVD movies store only video content in either 480i (SD) or 480p. Xbox 360 games contain much more, and due to the better compression methods out there, they can output video content in higher resolutions, especially considering the fact that PC games do the same thing.

It's HD.

It runs in a high definition resolution. Therefore, it is HD.

First of all, you're a troll.

Second, there was no need to create a new account to ask this.

Third, If you knew anything at all about disc space you should know that HD-DVD, Blu-Ray and Regular Dvds refer to the amount of data the disc can store, and not the quality of the video inside it.

The 360 uses regular dvds which are 9Gb big. It can hold video in 1280x720p and 1920x1080 just fine, it just holds less information than the other 2 would...

The difference is that DVDs are pre-recorded where as games are rendered in real time. If you had control of the system you could force it to render in higher then HD resolutions at the cost of FPS. At the same time, you could lower the resolution to below SD and increase the FPS. The amount of geometry would still be rendered, just less detail would show up.

To try it out yourself, download Anim8or (www.anim8or.com) make a sphere, save it, and render it out at different resolutions. You will notice that your save file's size does not increase based on the resolution you render at.