360 and 5.1 surround setup

fragster · 31 Jan 2006 at 13:21

With a bit of luck I should be purchasing a 360 this week. What I wanted to know is what is the best way to connect it to my Denon DHT-500SD surround sound setup?

Are there Digital outs on the back of the 360? Or would I be best off changing the function on the Denon to play whatever is playing on the TV?

Help!

Cheers

Dave

FeFiDoh · 31 Jan 2006 at 13:24

on the HD/Comp cable that comes with it there is a digital out thing yes so u can use that

Kainz · 31 Jan 2006 at 13:34

The 360 has an optical output thingy so it should be fine with your amp. I need to look at a 5.1 solution myself too.

Firestar_3x · 31 Jan 2006 at 13:36

Kainz said:
The 360 has an optical output thingy so it should be fine with your amp. I need to look at a 5.1 solution myself too.

Provided you get the premium, its built into the video lead.

fragster · 31 Jan 2006 at 13:39

thanks for the replies guys.

I haven't got an amp, it will be going straight into the back of the player as that's where the digital inputs/outputs are.

Kainz - look into the DHT-500SD mate, every review i read about it says it's a fantastic all in one dvd solution. £400 online.

DaveyD · 31 Jan 2006 at 16:21

Looking at the spec of the DHT-500SD, it has an optical input, so you'll be sorted as long as you have one of the Xbox 360 cables that have an optical output. Those are:
HD Component Cable
HD VGA cable
Advanced SCART Cable.

Oh, your sig breaks the sig rules mate, only 4 lines max

fragster · 1 Feb 2006 at 11:01

i have seen sigs on here larger than mine... :|

they're small lines

DaveyD · 1 Feb 2006 at 15:46

fragster said:
i have seen sigs on here larger than mine... :|

they're small lines

Find me one sig that's 5 lines, or has 1 image and more than 1 line

da_mic_1530 · 1 Feb 2006 at 16:19

i have 2 things i want to do really

i have 5.1 speakers on my pc with 3 connections into the pc, cheapest way to connect them 2 the PC?

OR i have 2.1 speakers that connect through the headphone jack of me TV, great for games, i hate it for TV shows thou, so how could i get the 360 to play throught the 2.1 without the TV doing so, if you get my drift

DaveyD · 1 Feb 2006 at 16:35

da_mic_1530 said:
i have 2 things i want to do really

i have 5.1 speakers on my pc with 3 connections into the pc, cheapest way to connect them 2 the PC?

OR i have 2.1 speakers that connect through the headphone jack of me TV, great for games, i hate it for TV shows thou, so how could i get the 360 to play throught the 2.1 without the TV doing so, if you get my drift

Are you saying you want to buy speakers or you have speakers at the moment?

The only way to get 5.1 sound from the 360 is having a set of speakers, or a speaker setup that will decode Dolby Digital. If you have standar 5.1 PC cheaper style speakers, unless they have dolby digital, input, then you'd have to buy a special box such as the creative DDTS thingy which is ~£100 to convert the signal to analogue for your 5.1 PC speakers to understand the sound.

If you just want general good quality 2.1 setup, then you'd just need to go to an electrical shop to get the 2 channel output from the 360 and convert it to the 3.5mm jack for 2.1.