Advice on 360 connection to monitor.

LLBDTiberio · 8 Jan 2008 at 03:32

Evening guys,
I mate of mine wants to bring his Xbox 360 elite over to my flat tomorrow so we can play together, what would be the best way to connect the 360 to my BenQ 24" FP241WZ?
I was thinking that we could connect it with HDMI to the monitor and then use an optical cable to connect the sound to my I/O module from my Xfi ie. the input part.
Will this work though? :confused:

Logsi · 8 Jan 2008 at 04:24

I would go with VGA personally. Get the Official VGA cable for the xbox.

Josh

Nismo · 8 Jan 2008 at 07:20

Edit - ignore

LLBDTiberio · 8 Jan 2008 at 08:28

Right, so instead of HDMI, i'll use VGA, does VGA carry full 1080p, just wanting the best experience really.
Optical stays the same if I'm correct?

A[L]C · 8 Jan 2008 at 08:28

HDMI would be best surely?

LLBDTiberio · 8 Jan 2008 at 08:56

That's what I thought but Joshs comment was confusing me a bit.
I'll just test it out and see what happens, just hoping that it won't be a problem on 64bit windows.

A[L]C · 8 Jan 2008 at 09:05

LLBDTiberio said:
That's what I thought but Joshs comment was confusing me a bit.
I'll just test it out and see what happens, just hoping that it won't be a problem on 64bit windows.

What speakers are you using? Optical would be overkill for 2.1

LLBDTiberio · 8 Jan 2008 at 09:08

I'm using a pair of creative 2.1.
Its just that the monitor doesn't have speakers and this, as far as i'm aware, is the only way in which I can get sound?

Frapple · 8 Jan 2008 at 09:15

Official VGA Connection.

I use Logitech X-230 2.1, they plugged straight into VGA cable using the wire that comes with them.

If you notice the difference between VGA and HDMI, I'll do a poo outside.

LLBDTiberio · 8 Jan 2008 at 09:22

Right Manbread, could you please explain exactly how the speakers are connected since, judging from pictures of the cable, there are 2 cables along with the VGA one.

Frapple · 8 Jan 2008 at 09:30

With the Logitech ones, there was a small 'adapter' cable, it basically turned the red & white connections into a green one (technically minded, I know)

It has female red & white and female green, so the VGA cable could plug straight in one end, and the speakers connection plugged in the other.

No idea if your speakers come with one, if someone could give the technical names for the two connections you could google for one.

A[L]C · 8 Jan 2008 at 09:42

Do you have the VGA cable? if not go hdmi which will save you having to buy a new cable. With either connection, you can then go from phono to 3.5mm jack

LLBDTiberio · 8 Jan 2008 at 12:28

Unfortunetaly that wouldn't work as my speakers dont have a free mini-jack input as far as I can see.
Will just use the optical solution I think, do I still need the VGA cable for that or is there an optical port on the Xbox?

EDIT:
Have found it out I think, I can get a female-to-female VGA adaptor, attach my VGA cable to one end, and the Xbox cable to the other.
That way, the VGA cable can reach the aux. red/white inputs on my I/O drive, hopefully creating sound.

A[L]C · 8 Jan 2008 at 13:51

*** u mean by a mini-jack input?

LLBDTiberio · 8 Jan 2008 at 14:00

I don't know if thats what it's called, its those red/white things on the I/O module

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Just sent out my mate to search for this adaptor and we can hopefully get some gaming going soon.

Logsi · 8 Jan 2008 at 14:19

The reason i said go with VGA is because i prefer a analog connection. It gives a better picture. I find HDMI harsh and when i used HDMI on a mates xbox it gave weird digital "anomalies" on screen. For example you know we are on Digital TV now and it has a bad bitrate(blocky), kinda like that.

Josh