Xbox360 Video Hookups

[ND40oz]

Anybody else notice the xbox360 pics here with it hooked up to the sammy dlp. If the coax is the only thing not hooked up, it's on the same line as the component video hookups. How are you supposed to plug the coax into your receiver and the component video into your tv if they're all bundled together?

Xbox360 Pics at IDF

 

[Qwest]

hmm, in the current xbox, you have to supply your own optical, so you can determine how long a cable you need.
the coax in that pic seems kinda short to reach a home theater system.


edit: i meant optical above.

 

[Howard]

The Xbox 360 was of course hooked up to the Samsung DLP RPTV using component cables. The coaxial audio cable was the only one not connected, for obvious reasons.

But it looks as if the bottom 2 red/white coax are the L/R channels. What would be the need for a third coax audio cable?

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: ND40oz
Anybody else notice the xbox360 pics here with it hooked up to the sammy dlp. If the coax is the only thing not hooked up, it's on the same line as the component video hookups. How are you supposed to plug the coax into your receiver and the component video into your tv if they're all bundled together?

Xbox360 Pics at IDF

Why would you plug it separately into the TV and receiver anyway? Your receiver doesn't output to TV?

 

[CVSiN]

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: ND40oz
Anybody else notice the xbox360 pics here with it hooked up to the sammy dlp. If the coax is the only thing not hooked up, it's on the same line as the component video hookups. How are you supposed to plug the coax into your receiver and the component video into your tv if they're all bundled together?

Xbox360 Pics at IDF

Why would you plug it separately into the TV and receiver anyway? Your receiver doesn't output to TV?

most TVs do not have opticle or "coax" digital output just crappy RCA.. rather use either of those 2 standards to crappy RCA plug audio

right now my regular Xbox is using the opticle from the HD kit to my recievers optical in.. they did it right that way.. making the user by the coax or the optical cable to go from the HD kit to whatever device...

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: CVSiN

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: ND40oz
Anybody else notice the xbox360 pics here with it hooked up to the sammy dlp. If the coax is the only thing not hooked up, it's on the same line as the component video hookups. How are you supposed to plug the coax into your receiver and the component video into your tv if they're all bundled together?

Xbox360 Pics at IDF

Why would you plug it separately into the TV and receiver anyway? Your receiver doesn't output to TV?

most TVs do not have opticle or "coax" digital output just crappy RCA.. rather use either of those 2 standards to crappy RCA plug audio

right now my regular Xbox is using the opticle from the HD kit to my recievers optical in.. they did it right that way.. making the user by the coax or the optical cable to go from the HD kit to whatever device...

The OP wants to plug the composite video (or coax audio, but in the picture that looks like it's on a separate cable) into his receiver and the component video into his TV. Plugging the component into the receiver should let you watch that input on TV.

 

[loup garou]

Uh, just like anything else I add to my HT setup...audio and video cables go into receiver, video goes back out to TV. It's not that complicated.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: werk
Uh, just like anything else I add to my HT setup...audio and video cables go into receiver, video goes back out to TV. It's not that complicated.

Your receiver can't throughput video?

 

[ND40oz]

I don't know about you guys but my receiver doesn't have component video switching. I'm waiting until some reasonably priced ones that do HDMI and Component video switching before I upgrade again.

So my hookup goes, component into the tv, coax/optical into the receiver. No way am I running s-video to the receiver and then back to my tv, then I lose all high def capabilities of the system.

Seems like a poor design right now, hopefully it is corrected before it starts shipping.

 

[leftyman]

someone say hooker?

 

[GoingUp]

I always plug the video direct into the TV and the audio into the receiver. No need to degrade the video signal with multiple connections.

 

[brian_riendeau]

My receiver has component video switching, I do not use it. I just plug my XBox straight into the component input on my TV, then I plug the audio optical into my HT receiver. Why should I bother with more cables than I need and possibly degrade the quality? I think it is completely stupid to have the optical cable be bundled with the video cables.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: werk
Uh, just like anything else I add to my HT setup...audio and video cables go into receiver, video goes back out to TV. It's not that complicated.

Your receiver can't throughput video?

Yes it can, try reading that again.

 

[AMDZen]

Originally posted by: brian_riendeau
My receiver has component video switching, I do not use it. I just plug my XBox straight into the component input on my TV, then I plug the audio optical into my HT receiver. Why should I bother with more cables than I need and possibly degrade the quality? I think it is completely stupid to have the optical cable be bundled with the video cables.

What you just described is much more "completely stupid."

Its not going to degrade quality. Thats what a receiver is for

 

[purbeast0]

honestly, I think that description is not referring to the wire in the picture, its just referring to the audio cables that also come with the HDAV package. and as we all know, coaxial audio cables dont plug into the TV and plug into a receiver, so i guess thats why in the description of the picture he uses "obviously".

because as you can see, the audio (red/white) cable and the video cable (component RGB cables) are each on their own cable, not on one that splits 5 ways.

however the component video cable has the 1 extra wire hanging that is not plugged in. more than likely that is another video output wire.

I read that the HDAV connector that comes with the xbox360 can also so SD and connect via the normal yellow composite video cable, so that people who have the HDAV pack can play on both HD and nonHD TV's. so that would make sense if the different video outputs were on one wire.

So I really think the extra plug just hanging there is the yellow composite video cable just hanging off. either that, or its the S-Video plug just hanging off, because SVideo is also considered "Advanced" video. and on the normal XBox Advanced video packages (the S-Video one, not component) you can use it for normal composite video and S-video, whichever you choose.

So I just think the description is either.
1. wrong by talking about a cable that is not in the picture.
2. wrong by calling the yellow composite video wire the audio coaxial wire.

 

[brian_riendeau]

What you just described is much more "completely stupid."

Its not going to degrade quality. Thats what a receiver is for

Right, because every receiver is 100% perfect and there is never any signal loss cause by going through multiple extra connector that are not need.

Go keep living in your fantasy world.

 

[purbeast0]

Originally posted by: brian_riendeau

What you just described is much more "completely stupid."

Its not going to degrade quality. Thats what a receiver is for

Right, because every receiver is 100% perfect and there is never any signal loss cause by going through multiple extra connector that are not need.

Go keep living in your fantasy world.

a receiver won't "enhance" the picture quality, so if you dont want to spend the extra $$$ on buying an extra set of cables, and are only using 1 component input on your TV, then there is absolutely no point in hooking it to your receiver first.

the only point of hooking it to your receiver is if you have 3 component video inputs going to your receiver, then 1 going from your receiver to your TV. unless you are just really lazy and hate setting your TV and receiver to be synchronized so your receiver output matches whats on your TV screen.

 

[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: purbeast0

Originally posted by: brian_riendeau

What you just described is much more "completely stupid."

Its not going to degrade quality. Thats what a receiver is for

Right, because every receiver is 100% perfect and there is never any signal loss cause by going through multiple extra connector that are not need.

Go keep living in your fantasy world.

a receiver won't "enhance" the picture quality, so if you dont want to spend the extra $$$ on buying an extra set of cables, and are only using 1 component input on your TV, then there is absolutely no point in hooking it to your receiver first.

the only point of hooking it to your receiver is if you have 3 component video inputs going to your receiver, then 1 going from your receiver to your TV. unless you are just really lazy and hate setting your TV and receiver to be synchronized so your receiver output matches whats on your TV screen.

I've never ever heard of things not being synchronized... what a bunch of garbage...