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New TV + Xbox 360 + Old Stereo Set-up
November Fifth
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I am in the process of purchasing a new TV to play XBox 360 games, stream Netflix and Espn, and watch whatever over the air broadcasts I can get with an antenna. I would like to output the sound through an older stereo receiver which only has analog A/V inputs and does not support surround sound, but it appears that new model TV's will only output via digital audio.
Am I going to have to buy a product like this http://www.gefen.com/gefentv/gtvproduct.jsp?prod_id=5980
or could I get buy with this less expensive version http://www.gefen.com/kvm/dproduct.jsp?prod_id=5279.
Or is there another solution I can find which doesn't require buying a new receiver?
Am I going to have to buy a product like this http://www.gefen.com/gefentv/gtvproduct.jsp?prod_id=5980
or could I get buy with this less expensive version http://www.gefen.com/kvm/dproduct.jsp?prod_id=5279.
Or is there another solution I can find which doesn't require buying a new receiver?
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An example: you're looking for the line that says Analog Audio Output.
PSN: TheScrublet
If your receiver has a coax input and output for the antenna, you could hook the 360 up with hdmi for video directly to the tv, and then use l/r audio to the receiver for audio. A bit of a roundabout way to do it, but it would work.
That's pretty simple and should work, right?
OP, if you can do optical or digital coax out from whatever TV you select, you might want to try this. Not much in the way of info or reviews there, but Monoprice has a good return policy and it's less than $30. At that price I highly doubt it supports anything but stereo, but that shouldn't be an issue for your setup.
Maybe it's just my old-skool component video Xbox, but I don't think this is possible. If I select HD video outputs, the Xbox won't let me select analog audio output. Your choices are digital stereo or digital surround, i.e. HDMI or optical audio output, no analog output. I learned this the hard way when I was trying to feed HD component video and L/R audio into a projector with component video and stereo audio inputs. I came across that item on Monoprice while searching for solutions to this problem.
I pay quite a bit of attention to this stuff [strike]and I certainly haven't noticed this trend. With the exception of the really really thin TVs, that can barely fit their HDMI ports (or in some cases can't even do that). Regardless, there are definitely still plenty of TVs that do analog out, buying some sort of adapter or something to accomplish this is a waste of time money and space.[/strike] and I'm apparently still a moron.
Considering that there are $250 receivers out there that would blow the OPs receiver out of the water and make this a moot point, I can't really see spending $80 on some converter. That $27 thing above might work but still I'm sure you can find a TV that does this.
PSN: TheScrublet
Most of the Vizios I'm scanning have Analog out it looks like. If you're too cheap to buy a $250 receiver to get some digital inputs this is the budget you should be looking at anyhow.
And I must have been smoking crack when I thought I hadn't seen this trend because Vizio looks like the only ones.
PSN: TheScrublet
The HDMI and audio cables aren't tied together. The audio goes to the receiver, the HDMI to the TV. Yes, it takes 2 remotes to set the TV to HDMI and the receiver to whatever input, but it's a better solution than an 80 buck gizmo.
It looks like the TV I have decided on does have a 3.5mm out it so I can use that.
I don't really want to pick up a new receiver, because quite frankly, I am really happy with my current audio set-up. It's old, not cheap, and it sounds great with my high end turntable. It also gives blowjob's.