XBox and Sound Help Please!

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DewaldB

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I will try my best to describe my problem.

My tv in the living room is set up to my Xbox 360 with the cable that came with the Xbox itself. But I want to set the xbox up with my HD cable but the problem is when I connect the HD cable to the Xbox there is no sound through my home theatre speakers.

My tv is set up with a cable from the Amp to the tv so normal tv works with sound!
And my DVD player also have cables connected to the amp so the sound works for this as well.

The Problem I will say is I cant connect sound from my Xbox to the amp because there is no sound space for a cable from the xbox itself hope you guys understand I am not smart whit things like this.

Anyone please? Is there a certain cable I can buy and where to buy Thanks!!
 
How are you connecting your Xbox? Plugging it straight into your amp? Is it an HDMI cable?

If it's an HDMI cable and you're plugging it into your amp, your amp will need to support HDMI repeating to be able to process sound. If you turn the sound on your TV up, you'll notice that the sound goes through to your TV, but not the amp - that means that your amp is simply passing both signals through to the TV, meaning it doesn't support HDMI.

You'll need to get an optical cable that connects your Xbox to your amp.
 
So then I just plug in my HD cable into the xbox and tv and then the component cable just into the tv and the amp not into the xbox then because there will be no space to plug into the xbox when the HD cable is in?

Thanks for your help!
 
DewaldB said:
So then I just plug in my HD cable into the xbox and tv and then the component cable just into the tv and the amp not into the xbox then because there will be no space to plug into the xbox when the HD cable is in?

Thanks for your help!
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Wait, what? Sorry, let me explain the setup I've used in the past:

Your HD Component cable is plugged into your XBOX, leaving the 6 plugs on the other end free.

You then plug the Red, Green and Blue plugs into the TV. (What TV is it? Is it an HD-capable TV? LCD or Plasma or whatever? The Yellow plug is for a non-HD TV and then you ignore the Red, Green and Blue and then you can also not switch on the HD switch on the XBOX-end of the HD cable...)

After connecting the TV, you plug the remaining red and white plugs into your amp for the stereo sound.

Note, that when you use the component cable, you cannot also use the HDMI cable. In fact, the XBOX HD cable covers up the HDMI port on the unit so that you can't plug anything else in anway.

Juice
 


This is my connection
The Tv sound works through the amp and the DSTV as well and when I use the Xbox cable that came with the xbox itself the sound also works.

But I want to use a normal hd cable because the quality is so much better!!
But when I plug the normal HD cable into the Xbox and to the tv there is no way too get the sound to the Amp!!!
 
Yeah, ok, your problem there is the HDMI cable, as Mike pointed out. You need an AV receiver that can split the image and sound out of the HDMI into separate video and sound, otherwise your amp is merely passing along the entire signal to the output and you won't get any sound, which is what is happening, by the sounds of things.

You need a different cable, called an HD component cable. This is not an HDMI cable. If you look at the link I posted above, you'll see what I mean.

Juice
 
Then it's simple - HDMI cable from the Xbox to the amp, another HDMI cable from the amp to the TV.

If the amp supports HDMI repeating then you will get sound on your home theatre system. If the amp does not support HDMI repeating, then you'll also need to connect an optical cable from the Xbox to the amp (in addition to the HDMI connections that I mentioned).

If the amp does not support HDMI at all, then you'll need to connect the Xbox to your TV via HDMI (as you have done), and also connect an optical cable from the Xbox to the amp.
 
Ok it worked!
I tried that thing I posted in the link above. I took off the cover of that big plug and plugged it into the xbox took the White and Red audio av cable and plugged it into the amp. I then plugged the normal HD cable into the xbox because it fits now and connected to the tv and voila my sound works:)
 
DewaldB said:
Ok it worked!
I tried that thing I posted in the link above. I took off the cover of that big plug and plugged it into the xbox took the White and Red audio av cable and plugged it into the amp. I then plugged the normal HD cable into the xbox because it fits now and connected to the tv and voila my sound works:)
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It works but you won't get surround sound by using the white/red AV cable.
 
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