Well, I've joined the HDTV revolution, finally. I know, I'm late in the game. But this is mostly due my wife and I being extremely frugal. So, I bought a 720p Westinghouse 22 inch, floor model. It's pretty nice but in hooking up my XBox 360 to it via an HDMI cable it would have approx 1 second of music and picture and then turn blank. The controller would sometimes work and sometimes wouldn't. So, after researching for about a half hour I found out that microsoft is ridiculous (I should've suspected this from the beginning). Turns out that whenever you connect an HDMI cable to it, it automatically goes to 1080p output, which of course was too much for my television to handle thus causing my symptoms.
There are is one solution to fix this, but a few ways to go about it. What you need to do is to go into the system settings/console settings/HDTV settings and switch it to whatever resolution is necessary (whether it be 1080i or 720p, etc.). The first way to change this is to go in blind; there are a few tutorials out there of how to do this, but they didn't work for me, so I will give my own:
1. Turn on console VIA the controller
2. Wait approx 30 seconds
3. push the 'X' middle button on the controller ONCE
4. Wait another 10 seconds to let it fully come up
5. Push RIGHT (2) times
6. Push DOWN (3) times
7. Push A (1) time
8. Wait another 5 seconds
9. Push A (3) times
10. Push UP (1) time for 1080i, UP (2) times for 720p, or UP (3) times for 480p
11. Press A (1) time
This should produce the result you want.
Of course the EASIEST solution is to find a 1080p television that you can use (there are several where I work), connect your XBOX to it, and then change the settings to whatever you need it to be. I tested it and it saves your setting even when turn it off and unplug it. I am now playing as Batman in HD bliss.
Another note is that you can't get to the HDTV settings VIA a yellow AV cable being connected. So, Microsoft MAKES you do this blindly.
Anyways,
Cheers
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