Need a techie to help me

Goldy

Hey Guys, I bought a xbox 360 on black friday and am having a hard time thinking through how I am going to wire this bad boy up. I run a HD projector but this will be my first HD consol and my receiver has no HD in. I want to run the HDMI cable straight to the projector but then I bypass the surround sound. Aside from buying a new suround sound system is there any way to have my cake and eat it too? The only think I can think of is running the HDMI from the xbox to a splitter and then one HDMI cable to the projector and the other to a HDMI/Comsosite converter so I can run the composite to the speakers. I have no idea if that would actually work but its all I could think of.

Teege

Does your receiver have optical in?

The Kid

Well with your receiver only having composite in, Then you have to convert, Could you run s video on one and hdmi on the other for you video connections? If not then I would agree a hdmi splitter is the way to go, I know those are available

The Kid

Teege:

Does your receiver have optical in?

Yes Optical would work too but only for video, not audio

The Kid

another way not sure if you have a vcr or dvr with hdmi in and composite rca out, You may be able to use that piece as a converter

The Kid

I may be Mistaken here Teege, Optical may also work,, Ill have to check....

The Kid

The Kid:

Teege:

Does your receiver have optical in?

Yes Optical would work too but only for video, not audio

Think Im mistaken here,, the optical may be a audio only link, not video only like I stated. The Xbox does have an SPDIF port

Teege

Guess you could always get one of these.... LINK

Teege

The Kid:

Think Im mistaken here,, the optical may be a audio only link, not video only like I stated. The Xbox does have an SPDIF port

When I said that I was thinking if the receiver had optical he could run that to the receiver then HDMI to the projector but I wouldn't imagine it has optical input if its an older model.

The Kid

Do you also have sat/cable going to the surround sound???

The Kid

Teege:

The Kid:

Think Im mistaken here,, the optical may be a audio only link, not video only like I stated. The Xbox does have an SPDIF port

When I said that I was thinking if the receiver had optical he could run that to the receiver then HDMI to the projector but I wouldn't imagine it has optical input if its an older model.

I know, for some reason I thought the opt was vid only, Your suggestion would be Ideal, The receiver might have opt, I had an Older Harman Kardon 65 and I think it had opt.. DOnt think I ever used it though

Goldy

Teege:

Does your receiver have optical in?

All I see is TV/Video in and a Digital In both of which are composite terminals.

Goldy

The Kid:

Do you also have sat/cable going to the surround sound???

No, just running everything off the internet via Wii

The Kid

The Kid:

another way not sure if you have a vcr or dvr with hdmi in and composite rca out, You may be able to use that piece as a converter

how bout this idea

Goldy

I dont have one but would that be after the splitter?

Goldy

The Kid:

The Kid:

another way not sure if you have a vcr or dvr with hdmi in and composite rca out, You may be able to use that piece as a converter

how bout this idea

PM by the way

The Kid

Goldy:

The Kid:

The Kid:

another way not sure if you have a vcr or dvr with hdmi in and composite rca out, You may be able to use that piece as a converter

how bout this idea

PM by the way

Not sure if the Pm was for me or Teege as I didnt receive one?

Teege

The Kid:

Goldy:

The Kid:

The Kid:

another way not sure if you have a vcr or dvr with hdmi in and composite rca out, You may be able to use that piece as a converter

how bout this idea

PM by the way

Not sure if the Pm was for me or Teege as I didnt receive one?

Nor did I

stephen_hannibal

kingjk729

I am just a bit curious as well .... I bought the X-box 250hd bundle with two games on BF for 199shipped from Newegg no shipping or tax .... It's set for delivery today and I won't call myself a true audiophiles , but I thought sound goes through hdmi cables as well? I have an Onkyo receiver that supports 1.7 hdmi audio n video 3 inputs and 1 output into tv. Does the hdmi on the console only support video? Thanks guys.

Teege

kingjk729:

I am just a bit curious as well .... I bought the X-box 250hd bundle with two games on BF for 199shipped from Newegg no shipping or tax .... It's set for delivery today and I won't call myself a true audiophiles , but I thought sound goes through hdmi cables as well? I have an Onkyo receiver that supports 1.7 hdmi audio n video 3 inputs and 1 output into tv. Does the hdmi on the console only support video? Thanks guys.

No HMDI does both but his receiver doesnt have that as an option so he would have that bypass his receiver and just run straight to the projector thus not running through his stereo. Or at least thats how I read it. But if yours has HDMI in and out on your receiver you are golden.

Goldy

Goldy

The Kid:

Goldy:

The Kid:

The Kid:

another way not sure if you have a vcr or dvr with hdmi in and composite rca out, You may be able to use that piece as a converter

how bout this idea

PM by the way

Not sure if the Pm was for me or Teege as I didnt receive one?

it was to you Kid, not regarding the projector. Let me know if you got it or if the PM's are wigging out again.

stephen_hannibal

Krieg

Goldy:

Hey Guys, I bought a xbox 360 on black friday and am having a hard time thinking through how I am going to wire this bad boy up. I run a HD projector but this will be my first HD consol and my receiver has no HD in. I want to run the HDMI cable straight to the projector but then I bypass the surround sound. Aside from buying a new suround sound system is there any way to have my cake and eat it too? The only think I can think of is running the HDMI from the xbox to a splitter and then one HDMI cable to the projector and the other to a HDMI/Comsosite converter so I can run the composite to the speakers. I have no idea if that would actually work but its all I could think of.

it can get confusing Brian, i had to draw mine out on a whiteboard!

Goldy

Goldy

Krieg:

Goldy:

Hey Guys, I bought a xbox 360 on black friday and am having a hard time thinking through how I am going to wire this bad boy up. I run a HD projector but this will be my first HD consol and my receiver has no HD in. I want to run the HDMI cable straight to the projector but then I bypass the surround sound. Aside from buying a new suround sound system is there any way to have my cake and eat it too? The only think I can think of is running the HDMI from the xbox to a splitter and then one HDMI cable to the projector and the other to a HDMI/Comsosite converter so I can run the composite to the speakers. I have no idea if that would actually work but its all I could think of.

it can get confusing Brian, i had to draw mine out on a whiteboard!

Acutally my wife and I did draw it out on post it notes.

Goldy

Teege:

Does your receiver have optical in?

Turns out that my receiver does indeed have optical in and the xbox has another similar looking port called s/pdif. Are these compatable?

kingjk729

Teege

Goldy:

Teege:

Does your receiver have optical in?

Turns out that my receiver does indeed have optical in and the xbox has another similar looking port called s/pdif. Are these compatable?

Yes thats exactly what it is.

The Kid

Goldy:

The Kid:

Goldy:

The Kid:

The Kid:

another way not sure if you have a vcr or dvr with hdmi in and composite rca out, You may be able to use that piece as a converter

how bout this idea

PM by the way

Not sure if the Pm was for me or Teege as I didnt receive one?

it was to you Kid, not regarding the projector. Let me know if you got it or if the PM's are wigging out again.

Sorry Goldy, the PM's must be wigging out, cause I never got it, and HowtoBass said he was PMng me earlier and I didnt get those either.. Looks like Teege's Idea on the Optical will work,, let us know K?