Xbox cables and 360

Xeno

Quick question. I have been looking everywhere for xbox component cables and having no luck.

I know PS2 cables work for PS3 ones so I was just wondering if 360 component cables work for xbox perhaps.

Thanks guys.

Food?

I've been wondering this too. It wouldn't surprise me if they made a different kind of connector so you'd have to buy all new ones, but I've never been able to actually check. Does anyone know?

Ant000

I'm not positive as I sold my Xbox, but looking at my 360, the connector looks quite a bit bigger and different than I remember the Xbox one being.

I'd lean towards probably not, but I don't know for sure.

Gotcha Force

nope, the 360 cable *DOES NOT* fit in the regular xbox

http://www.estarland.com/index.asp?page=DefaultPage&cat=AC&product=23534&q=

estarland is usually pretty trustworthy

not sure if this has optical output though, which would suck if it didnt.......

NP

Gotcha Force wrote:

nope, the 360 cable *DOES NOT* fit in the regular xbox

http://www.estarland.com/index.asp?page=DefaultPage&cat=AC&product=23534&q=

estarland is usually pretty trustworthy

not sure if this has optical output though, which would suck if it didnt.......

It doesn't have optical output. I actually bought it for the PS2, which is fine, since my slim PS2 has an optical out on the back of the machine, but I had to use the official Xbox component cables to get optical out, the MadCatz ones don't cut it..

Quelreth

I have a different but quicky 360 cable question.

I'm getting a Premium for Christmas, and am planning on hooking it up to my LCD monitor since I'm in college and god knows I can't afford no HDTV. Looking at what's included, I'm fairly sure the cables I need to do this don't come with it, and I have to spend $40 to buy VGA HD AV cables. Is that right? Also, how would I go about connecting it to my 5.1 speakers? The VGA cables look like they've got the two standard stereo audio in jacks, but I have the green/black/yellow fanciness.

EDIT: And looking around more I see no green/black/yellow in any of the 360 cables. :? Is it possible for me to even do this?

kingmetal

Quelreth wrote:

I have a different but quicky 360 cable question.

I'm getting a Premium for Christmas, and am planning on hooking it up to my LCD monitor since I'm in college and god knows I can't afford no HDTV. Looking at what's included, I'm fairly sure the cables I need to do this don't come with it, and I have to spend $40 to buy VGA HD AV cables. Is that right? Also, how would I go about connecting it to my 5.1 speakers? The VGA cables look like they've got the two standard stereo audio in jacks, but I have the green/black/yellow fanciness.

EDIT: And looking around more I see no green/black/yellow in any of the 360 cables. :? Is it possible for me to even do this?

the cable that comes with the premium system is a component/composite cable only, so you'll have to buy the VGA cable for sure.

the VGA cable supports stereo out through RCA (the red and the white plugs) as well as optical output (toslink) for surround sound. I'm assuming you're trying to hook the 360 up to your computer speakers? you are probably SOL, since it seems like the 360 either wants to do stereo or optical (perhaps SPDIF exists out there but I couldn't find it... not that it would be helpful to you). you could, however, just buy an adapter that would at least give you stereo output. what you'd need is an adapter with two RCA females and one 1/8" male stereo mini. you'd only get output on two channels, but it would be better than nothing. this is also assuming you don't have some fancy setup that somehow can decode Pro Logic II, if this is the case then PLII will fake a 5.1 mix with a stereo signal through some sort of voodoo magic. I don't know of any multimedia speaker setups that have this feature off the top of my head.

you probably already know this, but you'll need to plug the adapter into the green slot on the speakers, as green denotes the front channels (black, I believe, is the rear channels and yellow is the sub/center channels).

EDIT: the optical output actually is SPDIF. the SPDIF I was reffering to was coaxial SPDIF. not like anyone cared about this.

NP

kingmetal wrote:

Quelreth wrote:

I have a different but quicky 360 cable question.

I'm getting a Premium for Christmas, and am planning on hooking it up to my LCD monitor since I'm in college and god knows I can't afford no HDTV. Looking at what's included, I'm fairly sure the cables I need to do this don't come with it, and I have to spend $40 to buy VGA HD AV cables. Is that right? Also, how would I go about connecting it to my 5.1 speakers? The VGA cables look like they've got the two standard stereo audio in jacks, but I have the green/black/yellow fanciness.

EDIT: And looking around more I see no green/black/yellow in any of the 360 cables. :? Is it possible for me to even do this?

the cable that comes with the premium system is a component/composite cable only, so you'll have to buy the VGA cable for sure.

the VGA cable supports stereo out through RCA (the red and the white plugs) as well as optical output (toslink) for surround sound. I'm assuming you're trying to hook the 360 up to your computer speakers? you are probably SOL, since it seems like the 360 either wants to do stereo or optical (perhaps SPDIF exists out there but I couldn't find it... not that it would be helpful to you). you could, however, just buy an adapter that would at least give you stereo output. what you'd need is an adapter with two RCA females and one 1/8" male stereo mini. you'd only get output on two channels, but it would be better than nothing. this is also assuming you don't have some fancy setup that somehow can decode Pro Logic II, if this is the case then PLII will fake a 5.1 mix with a stereo signal through some sort of voodoo magic. I don't know of any multimedia speaker setups that have this feature off the top of my head.

you probably already know this, but you'll need to plug the adapter into the green slot on the speakers, as green denotes the front channels (black, I believe, is the rear channels and yellow is the sub/center channels).

EDIT: the optical output actually is SPDIF. the SPDIF I was reffering to was coaxial SPDIF. not like anyone cared about this.

Actually, the Xbox VGA cables (purchased separately from the premium system) come with one of these:



Plug in the yellow/red RCA cables into that, and plug in the other stereo end into the blue line-in port on your computer. That's it, sound will now come out of your computer speakers automatically (as long as your computer's on)

Quelreth

NP wrote:

kingmetal wrote:

Quelreth wrote:

I have a different but quicky 360 cable question.

I'm getting a Premium for Christmas, and am planning on hooking it up to my LCD monitor since I'm in college and god knows I can't afford no HDTV. Looking at what's included, I'm fairly sure the cables I need to do this don't come with it, and I have to spend $40 to buy VGA HD AV cables. Is that right? Also, how would I go about connecting it to my 5.1 speakers? The VGA cables look like they've got the two standard stereo audio in jacks, but I have the green/black/yellow fanciness.

EDIT: And looking around more I see no green/black/yellow in any of the 360 cables. :? Is it possible for me to even do this?

the cable that comes with the premium system is a component/composite cable only, so you'll have to buy the VGA cable for sure.

the VGA cable supports stereo out through RCA (the red and the white plugs) as well as optical output (toslink) for surround sound. I'm assuming you're trying to hook the 360 up to your computer speakers? you are probably SOL, since it seems like the 360 either wants to do stereo or optical (perhaps SPDIF exists out there but I couldn't find it... not that it would be helpful to you). you could, however, just buy an adapter that would at least give you stereo output. what you'd need is an adapter with two RCA females and one 1/8" male stereo mini. you'd only get output on two channels, but it would be better than nothing. this is also assuming you don't have some fancy setup that somehow can decode Pro Logic II, if this is the case then PLII will fake a 5.1 mix with a stereo signal through some sort of voodoo magic. I don't know of any multimedia speaker setups that have this feature off the top of my head.

you probably already know this, but you'll need to plug the adapter into the green slot on the speakers, as green denotes the front channels (black, I believe, is the rear channels and yellow is the sub/center channels).

EDIT: the optical output actually is SPDIF. the SPDIF I was reffering to was coaxial SPDIF. not like anyone cared about this.

Actually, the Xbox VGA cables (purchased separately from the premium system) come with one of these:



Plug in the yellow/red RCA cables into that, and plug in the other stereo end into the blue line-in port on your computer. That's it, sound will now come out of your computer speakers automatically (as long as your computer's on)

Awesome, I was wondering if there was some way to make it work through my computer. Thanks guys.

I have Logitech Z-5300s, which apparently come with some kind of adapter that lets you plug in RCA cables, but I've got no idea where the damn thing went. Ah well.

Ant000

Hey I have a cable question that I might as well put in here.

My new LCD TV has HDMI, component, and a VGA input. Right now my 360 is hooked up via the component outputting at 720p, but I've heard a lot of people say VGA is much crisper on some TVs than component, and sometimes component is superior.

My problem is, when outputting from my computer to my TV, the VGA input only supported 640x480 and 1024x768. Does that mean that the 360 wouldn't be able to properly output at 720p to my TV through a VGA cable? Even though 720p through component and HDMI works great?

Just curious!