Xbox One TV resolution vs. Windows 10 streaming resolution

I am planning to buy an Xbox One sometime in the next couple months and I have a question about output resolutions.

Will the Xbox One output the same resolution over Windows 10 streaming as it does to the connected TV, or can the two be set independently?

The reason I ask is that my gaming TV does not support 1080p, so I will have the console set to output 720p to the TV. When I stream to Windows 10 though, I would still like to be able to stream 1080p video. Is that possible?

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Game streaming resolution when TV is off or on different input

Here's some additional details for Microsoft. I am using two xbox ones and a windows 10 pc:

- an original model xbox one connected to a 1080p tv and a wireless AC network connection

- an xbox one S connected to a 4K tv and wired networking

- windows 10 pc with a 1080p monitor and wired networking

Game streaming works perfectly to the original model xbox one with a wireless connection. From my windows 10 PC I can turn on the console, start streaming, and the resolution is great.

With the xbox one S though, even though I have a wired network connection to both the PC and that xbox, I will only be able to stream in 640x480 resolution unless I turn on the TV before I try to stream. I can also report that if I do turn on the TV first
and begin streaming in 1080p, I can then turn off the TV without affecting my 1080p streaming until I turn the xbox off.

This appears to be a bug for our particular configuration, and it's not getting any attention from Microsoft because their streaming test cases are passing. It could be a difference of original model xbox vs. xbox one S, but I'm expecting it has something
to do with the 4K display settings on the xbox, HDCP, and/or trying to stream to a lower resolution of 1080p.

 

Streaming to windows 10

This is maybe a heads up for what I found.

My Xbox is used on a TV which only does 720p resolutions. When I tried streaming to windows 10 it looked a bit horrible. My display settings on the xbox were set to auto detect the TV connection. When I changed the settings on the Xbox manually to 1080
instead of auto detect it looked fine when streaming. Streaming seems to match the resolution of the TV its connected to when its set to auto detect rather than the possibly higher PC resolution its being streamed to.

 

The Xbox One is able to stream in 1080p to your computer but you have to stream in high quality for full 1080p.

 

Yes, I understand that the Xbox One can stream in 1080p, but my question is whether that is still the case when the console is set to 720p output for my TV?

 

I can answer my own question here that the Xbox One will stream at whatever resolution it is set to in the settings, so if I set the console to 720p it will stream at 720p. It isn't possible to pass a 720p signal out the HDMI output, but use a 1080p output
for streaming (unless you constantly change the settings back and forth).

The PC will scale to full screen no matter what, but 1080p looks much better than 720p on a 1080p monitor. The problem is if I set to 1080p when streaming to my PC and forget about it, then the next time when I try to use my TV I would get garbled graphics
because it can't accept the 1080p output, so I would need to go back upstairs and stream to my PC to reset the settings to 720p before I can use the TV again.

How I solved this problem was to use an HDFury 4S scaler to connect to my TV and scale the Xbox One down from 1080p to 1080i, which is the maximum resolution of my gaming TV. That allows me to keep the Xbox One console set on 1080p at all times.