Xbox 360 HDMI AV Cable
February 19, 2009 by Xbox 360 Game Reviews · Leave a Comment
6 Feet Long / Permits HDTV connectivity with your Microsoft Xbox-360 or 360-Elite video game console
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Works as promised.
It’s pricey but it does exactly what its meant to do. I can watch movies and have my surround sound system hooked up with out modification.
3 Stars only bought it for the audio adapter.
only bought it for the audio adapter.
it does it’s job… you will need this if u HDMI display doesn’t have speakers or you want digital out (optical) from the xbox to connect to your 5.1 (or 2.1, or 7.1) system.
the HDMI cable is a typical hdmi cable. nothing special.
5 stars for the audio adapter.
-5 stars for microsoft for not putting digital out audio port on the xbox itself (like ps3) and making us buy this over priced thing.
1 Star Loser Microsoft
So I wanted to use Optical Toslink cable along with HDMI, well guess what? I can’t! why you ask? MS made the A/V port so close to the HDMI port it’s impossible to use them both because of the huge plastic square on the A/V cable. Microsoft then tries to sell you on more cables that will allow you to use both HDMI and A/V so you can use your toslink cable, otherwise you can only choose either to use A/V with component or HDMI with sound bound to your tv speakers. SHADY MOVE! this is what makes the PS3 a better buy after its all said and done, at least Sony doesn’t make you buy tons of accessories just to use what the system was designed to do.
1 Star Microsoft strikes again!!
First they want $99 for a wireless adapter, then another $50 just so you can hook up your audio to optical out on your receiver. Purposely designed to suck more hard earned money out of your wallet. These inflated price items are a joke. HDMI cables are cheap. The one Microsoft one is too short for my needs anyway. Since there have been several versions of the 360 why not build in the wireless feature and design the plugs so they all fit or put an optical out port on the back? Could it be greed?
1 Star Rip-off
Nowhere in the description of this does it tell you it does NOT work with the Original XBox 360.
The dongle that this gives you does NOT have an HDMI connection on it. This product assumes you have an HDMI port on your XBox. The only XBox 360′s that have an HDMI connection are the Premium and the Elite.
If you do not have one of these systems you need this product, http://www.madcatz.com/Default.asp?Page=411
