HDTV an 360

[Daston]

Well the yanks on xbox.com dont seem to know so I thought I would pester you guys with the same question

Just got a 37" sharp full HD TV and can only plug the 360 in via VGA. However I get no sound so got a phono to headphone converter today and still get no sound (great pic tho)

any ideas

here is the back of my tv and converter

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/godaston/DSC00042.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/godaston/DSC00043.jpg

[edd_t]

are you using the correct cable!

thought the one that came with the 360 in the box wasnt for HD. and you need to buy it seperatly, like this one? (360 HD Component cable)

http://www.play.com/Games/Xbox360/4-/719756/-/Product.html?searchstring=hd+cable&searchsource=0

http://www.tvcables.co.uk/cgi-bin/tvcables/joytech-xbox-360-digital-av-cable.html?id=Lu7KyQDg

[Daston]

The premium 360 has HD cables as well as the red white and yellow

[LuxobargeTT]

Try putting the red and white leads into the bottom red and white sockets, I know the ones above it say output, I think the bottom ones are input.

[affney]

i just thaught you plug the hd cables in the scart adaptor then plug that in a scart socket could be wrong though

[SupraJames]

are you using the correct cable!

thought the one that came with the 360 in the box wasnt for HD. and you need to buy it seperatly, like this one? (360 HD Component cable)

http://www.play.com/Games/Xbox360/4-/719756/-/Product.html?searchstring=hd+cable&searchsource=0

http://www.tvcables.co.uk/cgi-bin/tvcables/joytech-xbox-360-digital-av-cable.html?id=Lu7KyQDg

The cable supplied with the 360 (well premium package) is for both TV and HDTV it has a little switch on it. Cant you just use that and run it into the scart connection on your TV..? I bought and use a component cable but sadly looks like your TV does not have comp in.
What connections come out of the Xbox as well as the VGA plug..?

[edd_t]

woohoo ive got premium, all i need now is a HDTV!

[Ewen]

Assuming you have the component X-Box cable with the switchable HD output, you could get a component-to-HDMI adaptor....
discussed here
http://forum.gefen.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1139

[Daston]

I have tried the red and white sockets all that does if give me sound on AV3 but no pic or a pic on AV4 and no sound. I have also tried putting it into scart and it just defaults as a normal TV

[SupraJames]

I have tried the red and white sockets all that does if give me sound on AV3 but no pic or a pic on AV4 and no sound. I have also tried putting it into scart and it just defaults as a normal TV

Even with the switch on the scart plug set to HDTV..? Also have you gone to the settings on the Xbox Dashboard and adjusted the HD resolution settings on there..?

[Daston]

yep with the scart in and set to HD it does nothing screen goes black when I select 1080i (wont let me choose 1080p) it then comes back after 10 sec's with TV 480p

[Daston]

oops my bad when connected via scart nothing appears when HD is selected

[Martin]

Hi there
Had a similar problem with my Pioneer. Great picture but no sound, set it up dead right but didn't work.

I had to leave the RGB in and plug the red and white audio into the scart adapter which came with xbox 360. Then plug the scart into one of the sockets which worked with the RGB conection.
This worked for me.

Worth a try..

[Daston]

ahhh there is a scart that said rgb connector...........will be right back

[Daston]

doh still no joy apparently that is AV1

[The Restorer]

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/systemsetup/xbox360/accessories/vgahdcable.htm

Your VGA cable is black and audio connections white. I have a MadCatz one here (albeit still packaged), but along with VGA it has the two audio connectors, all as one piece. Is yours the same?

The link above may help as well.

[Daston]

aye mine is the same as that however my green red and blue cables go into a vga adaptor but my TV does not have a red and white socket for the vga sound only a headphone type socket

[The Restorer]

Looking at your product manual you have everything setup correctly.

http://www.tradenet.sharp.co.uk/files/Consumer_Electronics/LCD_Television/LC37XD1E/LC37XD1E145.pdf

With the VGA in there and the audio in EXT4 they should work together. We know the two audio cables independently work so the problem is either down to the sound input on EXT4 or your jack.

Try connecting the sound via the jack to the input on your PC and see if that works. If not it's the jack else it looks like the tv connector is faulty (Doubt that though).

[Daston]

does the MS official VGA connector come with a jack?

[Snooze]

By the way, the Sharp TVs (if yours is full HD, I'm assuming it's probably the 37XD1E?) won't actually do full HD (1080p) through the VGA or component inputs.

You can only actually get 1080p on them via HDMI inputs.

Still it's moot anyway, as I believe the 360 only supports 1080i output at the moment (MS announced a firmware upgrade for 1080p support, but there's still no way of actually getting a 1080p signal OUT of the box!).

[Daston]

yeah I found that out when I tried getting 1080p seems a bit cheeky of MS to say "oh yes the 360 can do 1080p however there is no way of getting it to do it". Surly it would be like all our supras still being limited to 112mph and no derestrictors.