elites hdmi cable?

beachBOYken · 1 Oct 2007 at 10:56

hi

getting an elite soon and would like to know if the hdmi cable supplied is good or is it worth getting a better third party cable?

cheers

Kuhan · 1 Oct 2007 at 11:44

The cable i got with mine has no fault at all superb graphics

Datamonkey · 1 Oct 2007 at 14:03

does it have the optical out connector?

im a bit worried as i will need optical out to hook the 360elite upto my external amp

i know the component cables have it from my previous 360prem.

yaboy · 1 Oct 2007 at 14:08

don't think you can get better than official tbh

Kreeeee · 1 Oct 2007 at 14:23

Datamonkey said:
does it have the optical out connector?

im a bit worried as i will need optical out to hook the 360elite upto my external amp i know the component cables have it from my previous 360prem.

iirc you have the component cable plugged in at the same time as the HDMI to use the optical out.

Edit: The above is wrong.

Tobes · 1 Oct 2007 at 15:27

Kreeeee said:
iirc you have the component cable plugged in at the same time as the HDMI to use the optical out.

Kreeee... your never wrong. Why now!

You get a small adapter which plugs into the AV socket on the 360. Gives you RCA stereo and optical out.

Johnnytoxic · 1 Oct 2007 at 16:57

yaboy said:
don't think you can get better than official tbh

With hdmi it don't matter what cheap cable you use.

Paranoid_Robot · 1 Oct 2007 at 19:17

Is the xbox 360 hdmi cable for the Pro model available yet?

I'm talking about the one that comes with the adapter so you can use the optical output with it.

Kreeeee · 1 Oct 2007 at 19:44

Tob3z said:
Kreeee... your never wrong. Why now!

You get a small adapter which plugs into the AV socket on the 360. Gives you RCA stereo and optical out.

I always put iirc if I'm not sure or have heard it from someone else (as in this case)

If I'm never wrong then you agree that StarCraft is the best RTS ever? \o/

Cannaton · 1 Oct 2007 at 19:53

Paranoid_Robot said:
Is the xbox 360 hdmi cable for the Pro model available yet?

I'm talking about the one that comes with the adapter so you can use the optical output with it.

Yes the HDMI cable and AV module is available in stores now, same price as VGA/Component IIRC.

Paranoid_Robot · 1 Oct 2007 at 19:59

Cannaton said:
Yes the HDMI cable and AV module is available in stores now, same price as VGA/Component IIRC.

Okay cool, thanks for the heads up.

Logsi · 1 Oct 2007 at 20:41

yaboy said:
don't think you can get better than official tbh

Its digital so it doesn't matter what quality the cable is to a certain extent.

Course you can get better HDMI cables than the official ones, what a weird thing to say. May be the same picture as its digital but the actual cable may be of a better quality.

Josh

Tom1138 · 1 Oct 2007 at 21:38

Ok no need in opening a new thread for this as its a long the same lines. I have a Philips HDTV. When I get my XBOX360 Elite I want to connect it to my t.v. My T.V has DVI in only but that's OK as I can get a HDMI to DVI lead. However for sound the only input I have for DVI sound is a basic stereo jack (like ones used for headphones, etc). So how do I get a connector go from a XBOX into a stereo jack? I have a phone to stereo jack. But thats it.

Cannaton · 1 Oct 2007 at 22:13

You'd need either a Stereo phono to 3.5mm Jack adapter (cheap as), or you can use optical audio output using the av module if you have a device that can receive digital audio. Hope that helps.

Tom1138 · 1 Oct 2007 at 22:27

Noticed from this image I will be fine as shown in the bottom left of the XBOX...box there is a left/right phone output so as you suggest i can simply use a left/right phone to 3.5mm jack and should work fine. Was a bit worried as I have no digital input. But I think I have a left/right phone adapter lying around somewhere.