I stopped playing Final Fantasy after FF10. My favorite by far (the first and only game that ever made me emotionally connected) was FF8. Characters had so much personality and to be able to explore the world at will made the game a memorable masterpiece. Hopefully, they remake this game in HD or something so I can re-play it all over again. The new FF games are just too linear and I feel most characters aren't really developed.

Didn't like that game so I won't be picking it up.

I have the Xbox 360 VGA HD AV cable as shown above and it works great - I couldn't tell the difference between VGA and HDMI when playing Halo 3 (when I first got the cable). I would advise not picking it up from eBay though as there are lots of counterfeits and they don't work well (lots of scan lines on my tv). I threw that one in the garbage and went to Best Buy and picked up one for $15 on sale at the time.

Have you tried another game? I have the Xbox slim and run games off of the harddrive. I noticed that with some games, the fan blows harder than others (like Forza Horizon). Could it be that Forza Horizon is more graphics intensive and thereby causing the GPU/CPU to work harder?

You can't. Although the Xbox can play games off of the hard-drive, you still need to have that game inserted into the tray for it to work. Otherwise people wouldn't have to buy games anymore - they can just borrow games from their friends and copy it to the harddrive. It seems counter-intuitive, but the point of the feature is to not have to listen to the roar of the disc spinning while you're playing a game on low-volume.

I had a converter like that a few years ago and it was garbage. There were weird blue stripes running down the screen and lots of lag. Wasn't worth it to spend money to ship it back so I just threw it in the garbage. With that money, you would be better off putting it towards a used PC flat panel montior or something similar.

42" Sharp Aquos 1080P

32" Toshiba REGZA 1080P

22" Samsung 1080P LED (TV/PC-monitor)

22" Samsung 1080P LED (PC-monitor)

My favorite is the Toshiba REGZA. Picture and configuration-options beats the Aquos hands-down. And the speakers on the REGZA is superb - not even kidding, it sounds as good as my Bose Companion 2 speakers. The speakers on my bigger Aquos is simply garbage - sounds like they're made of cola cans.

Wow, this came to me as I was driving home from work today. All the time. I was pretty tech-savvy in high-school. And when it came time to my dad purchasing the first DVD player for our family, he didn't consent anyone including myself and came back home with a KLH branded DVD player. That thing lasted ~1.5 years before it stopped taking DVD's.

I too think I could've gone bigger on my 42" Sharp - should've gotten atleast a 46". However, if you're also going to be using it as a PC-monitor, then I guess a 32" 1080P makes sense because I did a set-up like that once. I'll warn you that you will get serious eye-strains by using a 32" 1080P as your PC-monitor. That set-up only lasted me 3 months and I reverted back to my trusty 20" PC monitor. My point is, if you're going smaller just so you could double it as a PC-monitor, you will be disappointed. And gaming and movie-watching is better on a big 1080P screen anyways.

I'm a super light user and it was why I purchased the 4GB version last Black Friday. I average under 10 hours of gaming per month. Since I've bought mine, I've never had a need for more than the 4GB that came with it. I don't even have time to finish the game let alone dowloading extra contents and levels for the game. If I decide to pick up the 250GB HDD at a later date, I could always pick up the official 250GB Xbox-360 hard-drive at Best Buy for $60 or get one cheaper on eBay for ~$45.