Astro problem

[happyface959]

Hey im looking at buying an astro and I saw and offical astro video on youtube on how to set up an astro and I noticed the opsink cable pluged into the hdmi cord in the back of the xbox. I have the standerd a/v cord I was wondering if this cord would work? and how would I plug it in? or do I have to go buy a hdmi cord :(

[joe2heatley]

you are playing xbox on a standard AV cord............................?

:mad:

what kind of TV do you have?
if you have a TV that is HDMI ready I strongly suggest you get this cable from microsoft...
http://www.ebgames.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=66794


it allows you to combine HDMI+Optical(best setup for astros)

[happyface959]

no im playing in HD I moddifed some cords cause i didnt want to pay $60 for a hdmi cord and it works great but i dont have that plug in for the opsink cable so do I have to buy a hdmi cord?:(

[Call Me Smoothy]

Well first the opslink cable doesnt plug into an HDMI cable it plugs into the standard AV cord that has the TV/ HDTV switch on it. Also if you want a HDMI cable so that you can play in HDMI just look on ebay i bought 1 for 10 cents off there. And there is a mod you can do to were you can use HDMI and you TV/HDTV swtich at the same time so that you get HDMI video and opslink sound into you Astros.

[ASTRO Warblade]

Does your TV happen to have an optical/tosink out? Some TVs (most HDTVs) will have this option to connect to a stereo receiver. Because the audio is traveling to the TV at 5.1, it'll also transfer through the optical port of the TV at 5.1 (unless the manufacturer disables that function.)