About an hour ago I ordered this Samsung LCD monitor from Newegg. I'm thinking about purchasing the VGA cables for my 360 to hook it up to this monitor in a little while, after I get the monitor. I was just wondering how I would get sound? There isn't a way that I can use my PC's speakers is there?

The Microsoft brand VGA cables come with a speaker adapter to hook up to analog PC speakers and a Lesbian VGA connector.

Oh, ok then that should work out great. Do you know if they could be used to hook up into my stereo whenever I go to college in a year?

As long as your stereo has RCA input (the red and white circular holes) then yeah you should be able to plug it in and play the sound through your stereo.

Ok, well I'll have to check that sometime whenever I'm bored. I'm just trying to think if it would be worth the money to buy the HD DVD drive late this year or maybe ask for it for Christmas. Is there a way I can check to see what my 360 could display on my monitor? (1080, 720, etc.)

Since it's only a 1440 X 900 resolution, you won't be able to see anything in 1080.

My monitor arrived today! I don't really care that it can't get to 1080 because 720 is fine by me, it still looks amazing. I hooked up my 360 to it but when I hooked up the audio cords with that adapter to my speakers it was extremely loud for some reason when the volume knob was turn all the way down/off. Any ideas for that? For now I just hooked the audio cords into my TV and put it on my video channel and that works fine for now. I'm kind of mad that my pc is so shitty that the video card cannot support the 1440 X 900 resolution, but I plan on getting a new and good pc in the next couple of months. But can anyone help me with my audio problem? It doesn't matter if you can't because using my TV is just fine with me. I hooked the cords/adapter into my pc speakers if that helps.

Any of you interested in buying a TFT for your 360 should purchase the ASUS 19 inch widescreen TFT it's cheap as cheaps and offers amazing performance, I'm getting one in April.

Saw a demo of it instore, pic is unreal, just buy it.

Also i found this out that hard way, NEVER ever buy a 4:3 ratio TFT for Xbox 360, nearly all of the games support only widescreen so most games will be letterboxed and bordered up harshly unless your playing at 640x480 which is pointless.

For the bext picture and performance I would also say use 720p 1080 is overrated with pixelation and slows things down.

I have no problems with 1080p. My games don't slow down or pixel up. Might be your connection. 1080p delivers a much better picture than 720p IMO.

720p is great for smaller monitors. Especially PC monitors. I'm getting either a 19" or 20" widescreen to carry around for Sys-Link games. Much easier than running around with my 24".

A good monitor that everyone keeps talking about s NEC. Seems that their refresh rate & picture quality is excellent. I might look into that.

My bro used to play in 1080p using the official HD leads on a 36 inch top rated samsung HDTV.

He soon stopped because the stuttering and jaggies were pizzing him off, he set it to 720p and it all worked like a dream.