360 Audio help

Pdog · 30 Dec 2006 at 11:58

Hi Peeps,

I was lucky enough to get a 360 for Christmas. Having had it working on my standard TV, I intend to move the 360 into my computer room and connect to my Dell 2405.

I am going to town to buy the Xbox 360 VGA AV Cable. Now this cable supports DD 5.1 Surround Sound. I have 4.1 speaker setup at the moment. The sub has an input for spdif. However the connection looks like a standard speaker cable. The question I have is will this spdif input in the sub work with this cable? or am I being stupid

Thanks

Pdog · 30 Dec 2006 at 14:07

Cheers for the replies guys. I am unsure if the Sub has dolby digital built in or not. I did read the sticky and that 3.5mm to phono, I thought would do the job.

I have managed to find an image of all the connections on the back of the sub.

Here

What options have I got?

Pdog · 30 Dec 2006 at 14:28

Cheers Peeps, I appreciate the help. I would like to use the opticial. you'll have to forgive me as I don't really know the terminology. The spdif conenction looks like a phono type conenction. So am I right in thinking I need to get an Optical to Coax converter as Doug has suggested?

One last point I would like to make, is it possible to have both the PC and Xbox connected to the speaker setup, without having to unplug something every time I wanted to use one or the other?

EDIT: if the Xbox is using spdif, and pc using Analog maybe I don't need to unplug anything?

Thanks

Pdog · 30 Dec 2006 at 15:56

Yup I have Dolby Digital, Stereo, Stereox2, Prologic. Quad.

Sweet I'll contact my local AV shop. See if they have that toslink cable.