Xbox 360 on iMac

[WillRuth]

Im going to be living in the dorms for college in a month and im looking for the best way to play xbox 360 on my 27" i3 iMac without having to dish out a lot of money on converters.

 

[nobias]

Im going to be living in the dorms for college in a month and im looking for the best way to play xbox 360 on my 27" i3 iMac without having to dish out a lot of money on converters.

http://store.apple.com/us/product/H0360LL/A

 

[WillRuth]

Preferably something cheaper

 

[nobias]

Preferably something cheaper

Belkin, Altona and Dr.bott are the only products I am aware of.

http://www.drbott.net/product/9598-DGVL/
http://www.atlona.com/Atlona-HDMI-to-Mini-DisplayPort-Converter-for-iMac-27.html

Both are $149. The prices only go up from there when you go to the "active" converters/upscalers.

Got to pay to play.

Refer to this (LONG) thread for all the XBOX/PS3 input discussion.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/806175/

 

[jackOH]

There aren't cheaper options. You need an active converter which are all expensive. You can't do it with adapters, etc.

 

[Mike Macintosh]

There aren't cheaper options. You need an active converter which are all expensive. You can't do it with adapters, etc.

He's right, your just not going to be able to do it unless you buy a converter, and they are all about in the same price range.

 

[Sammy Cat]

Buying a converter for $150 to play Xbox/PS on a 21.5" screen = lose. Spend the money on a monitor that has HDMI in instead.

 

[nobias]

Buying a converter for $150 to play Xbox/PS on a 21.5" screen = lose. Spend the money on a monitor that has HDMI in instead.

Can the new 21s take input? I thought it was only the 27s

 

[trip1ex]

For $150 you can buy a new 24" monitor. I got an Acer 1080p HDMI monitor for $128 the other week.

Anyway welcome to Steve's world. Nothing is cheap.

 

[WillRuth]

thanks for the suggestions, the thing is that i don't want to have another monitor to go next to my iMac. It looks like i may just need to buy one of those around $150, hopefully amazon,buy, or ebay might have it a little cheaper

 

[nobias]

Use the back to school promotion when you buy. You save on the iMac and get a free printer/iPod touch. Sell those and you are 150-200 bucks ahead.

Played some ps3 on a friends 27" w/ the belkin and it was amazing. Worth every penny.

 

[Superman07]

There is already a massive thread for this: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/806175/

 

[WillRuth]

Buying a converter for $150 to play Xbox/PS on a 21.5" screen = lose. Spend the money on a monitor that has HDMI in instead.

it is 27" and this allows it to play blu ray movies as well

 

[tac22]

Do the converters work on an apple display, like the new 27 inch or older 24 inch... I'm thinking it's gonna have to go through the MacBook pro? So maybe it's not possible at at least 720p res. But if anyone knows a way that would be great?

 

[Mr Freezetag]

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/982605/

this is the real deal. 1080p to your 27" scaled to the imacs resolution not perfect but better than the 720p devices...

 

[InfoSecmgr]

Preferably something cheaper

Meh. Kia, BMW, no difference, right?

 

[strang]

Are the late 2010 27-inch iMac still accepting 720p or 1440p inputs only?

For something at this price range you'd think Apple would include a native scaler.