Buying xbox360 arcade?

CrayonCrayon Sleeps in the wrong bed.TejasRegistered User regular
edited December 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
With the hdmi port, do I have to buy a proprietary microsoft hdmi cord or will any suffice? Thanks in advance.

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  • SmokeStacksSmokeStacks Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Any will suffice.

    Don't get caught up in spending $100 for a Monster XL Ultra Gold Plated Gamer's Plus EX cord, just get the standard 4 foot and you should be fine.

    I know there are varying types of HDMI cords, but (my understanding is) they do not really come into play unless you have either a very long cord, or an extremely high end home theater setup.

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  • DaedalusDaedalus Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    or an extremely high end home theater setup.

    They don't come into play even then. HDMI is a digital signal, so it's either "perfect" or "obviously broken", there's nothing in between. You can grab the cable dirt cheap from monoprice.com; don't buy from an actual store unless you enjoy getting ripped off.

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  • CrashtardCrashtard Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Daedalus wrote: »
    or an extremely high end home theater setup.

    They don't come into play even then. HDMI is a digital signal, so it's either "perfect" or "obviously broken", there's nothing in between. You can grab the cable dirt cheap from monoprice.com; don't buy from an actual store unless you enjoy getting ripped off.

    Definitely can confirm this. I'm using a monoprice hdmi cable for my htpc, and it looks just as good as any setup I've seen.

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  • SmokeStacksSmokeStacks Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I was mentioning higher quality cables in terms of build quality, not signal quality.

    I know a poor bastard who bought an HDMI cable for his 360 a while back and the plug was end of the cable itself was poorly manufactured and stuck out too far from the end of his TV, and the cable was too stiff. The weight from the cable just sitting there ended up loosening up one of the HDMI ports on his TV.

    Now he buys overpriced Monster type shit, and while I tease him for it, I don't blame him that much.

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  • AlwaysNewDepthsAlwaysNewDepths Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    monoprice.com

    Bought an hdmi cable about a year and a half ago for about $5-10 + shipping. It sees constant unplugging and plugging between my laptop and 360 and have had no issue with it ever.

    I believe older models required you to have some proprietary dongel as my old 360 had a port was supposedly hdmi compatible but the port that was labeled so looked nothing like an hdmi port, my new 360 just has a plain hdmi port.

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  • MrDelishMrDelish Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Daedalus wrote: »
    or an extremely high end home theater setup.

    They don't come into play even then. HDMI is a digital signal, so it's either "perfect" or "obviously broken", there's nothing in between. You can grab the cable dirt cheap from monoprice.com; don't buy from an actual store unless you enjoy getting ripped off.

    Digital signals can still have interference. It's not a matter of "it's working" or "it's not working wtf bad cable."

    Regardless, buy a cable on monoprice

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