Xbox 360 HDMI Cables [Pls Use General Questions Thread Above]

[caesius]

Hey all, I'm not really too knowledgeable on this type on stuff(TV connections) but I know pretty much the basics. For the holidays I got the HD-DVD drive(RIP HDDVD, I still love you) and was so stoked cause I figured it would upscale, being that all the others do. But I popped in a regular DVD and it was still grainy on my HDTV.

I recently found out the 360 and the drive are both capable of upscaling to 1080p is the TV allows, but only on VGA and HDMI, correct? My TV only goes up to 1080i, but it does have two HDMI inputs.

Now I got my 360 in March two years ago, before they had built in HDMI. I know there's something I can do about that, to get my 360 using HDMI, but im not sure what I need exactly.

Can anyone help me and point in the direction of what's the best?


Can I use these?
http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-360-HDMI-AV-Cable/dp/B000UODATY

[torifile]

That won't work. That's for HDMI enabled 360s. There's a madcatz adapter (http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2007/12/20/madcatz-hdmi-converter-sells-for-90-next-month/) but I don't know how good that would be. (Using a converter to go from analog to digital just seems like it would be worse, not better).

[egrudzin]

Even if you got the madcatz adapter I doubt it would upconvert. The 360 is still outputting in analog and the cable converts it to digital. As far as the 360 knows it's analog so no upconverting.

I don't think that's much of a loss for you. All the reviews I've seen point to the 360 being one of the worst upconverting players out there. But you may not need it anyway.

Depending on your TV it might already upconvert for you (most LCDs and Plasmas will upconvert to their native resolution). Or you could spend $100 or less on a stand-alone DVD player that will do upconverting via HDMI.

As for movies looking gainy, some of them are just bad quality, and no amount of upconverting is going to make them look better. I have a copy of Star Trek: First Contact that's really bad, even with upconverting.

[Gourd]

Also, if it helps with your decision, I have two 360s:

One has HDMI out, the other does not. It honestly isn't a huge difference if you can get a clean analog signal to your television.