While I was waiting for my HD-DVD add-on drive to arrive, I did some research on getting full 1080p from my XBOX 360 to my television (since the television seemingly only allowed 1080p over HDMI, not component or the PC input port, the latter would only support more standard 4:3 resolutions according to the manual). After shifting through several, long threads over at AVS Forum, I ran across several posts about using the VGA cable for the XBOX 360 and getting 1080p that way.

So I picked up the VGA cable, which was a bit spendy at around $40 but it is the price for wanting 1080p, wired up the console and, lo and behold, it worked! Well, the console reset the resolution back to 480p/widescreen but I was able to switch it to 1920x1080. After a couple of minutes of messing around with the settings on the television, I got to the point where the picture quality was as optimal (to me) as possible.