I use the Xbox HDTV AV Kit ![[B00005R6YZ]](http://www.mikeyp.com/css/external.gif)
to connect my Xbox to my HDTV. With it, you can run any Xbox game at its max resolution, whether it is 480i, 480p, 720p, or 1080i.
The Peter Molyneux game Fable runs in 480p. But every time I tried to run the game, the graphics would be completely corrupted, rendering the game unplayable. I've never seen this in any other Xbox game.
Turns out, the game can't deal with the Xbox dashboard when it runs in 480i (say, when you use Xbox Live ). The solution? You can force the dashboard to run in 480p. The dashboard looks so much better that way anyway. But I could've sworn older dashboard versions would run at the highest supported resolution. Or was that just on dev kits?
BTW, I'm not sure I would recommend this game at full price, since Fable is a bit… clunky. But at twenty-something dollars, it's worth considering, just to see the results of a legendary PC game designer's first attempt at a console game.
