HDMI Xbox 360 Pro missing audio adapter, what to do?

On the newer consoles - have they upgraded to the HDMI 1.3 or are they still going with the 1.2 spec? Curious...

I sent an email to M$ the day I got the hdmi premium. They said they are working on selling the thing seperately.. i guess they want to milk the $50 combo for a while...

I might try shaving it down but my tv is giving a nagging 'invalid feed' error or somesuch.. i forget the exact text so i gotta figure that shit out before even bothering...

Agh your right....One of the real things that bothers me so much about
the 360 is that there is no built in Wifi.And I don't want to pay 100
dollars just for a stupid wifi adapter that probably costs Microsoft
under 20 bucks to make... And I don't want to run a 100 foot Ethernet
cable through my house either. Sony and Nintendo where smart enough to
through in a cheep wifi card....I love the feeling of being able to
move my Wii any where in my house and always having a wireless
internet connection. Call me picky but I just think its plane stupid
not to have built in wifi... Id be curious to see what route 360
owners do to get there internet connection hooked up to there Xbox
360s. Because I'm planning on buying a 360 this year and I want to
know whats the smartest move.

@ Jason B

"One of the advantages of using HDMI is a single cable for both video and audio. Its really kinda silly to think that one may use an HDMI cable for video and analog stereo for audio. If you not concerned with high quality audio why bother with digital video."

Yes, it is true that the convenience lies with HDMI in that it carries both video and audio signals, but if you really think it is silly that someone would rather use analog audio, then you're truly not a audiopile. Real audiophiles know that analog audio which uses regular RCA connections can sound much better with the right equipment, like a $20,000 Preamp, which would destroy any HDMI setup any day. As far as video goes, a digital setup will look better because HDMI is one of the best options for video, but HDMI audio is not necessarily the superior or high quality option as you think. It all lies in what you can afford, not what you think is the best connection, that is HDMI.

Um, the video cable you get in the box to begin with, is the same size/shape as the HDMI audio "adapter". It's the same plug in, except it doesn't have any video cables coming out of it, just female l/r audio jacks, and the jack for optical out.

The reason you need this, according to the instructions, is that the system will not work with both HDMI and the regular 360 video (beit av, component or vga) plugged in at the same time. What differs between the video cord, and the audio adapter, that makes one work and one not is beyond me, but MS did it.

@Jynxycat

What makes the video (HD AV Component) cable and HDMI audio adapter different is that the HDMI audio adapter gives you enough room to fit an HDMI cable in underneath it. That's it.

There's nothing technologically advanced about it. How do I know? I have the standard pack-in HD AV component cable and a HDMI-to-DVI cable in the XBox 360 together and it works just fine--- After cutting some of the useless plastic out of the HD AV cable, that is.

Really. That's it. A bunch of grey plastic. The only thing stopping you from using the audio connection from the standard component cable along with an HDMI cable is a bulky plastic casing on the connector. Get rid of that, and the guts that route audio are the same.

So MS didn't do anything but make an adapter that has a slightly smaller plastic housing. If you don't want to spend $40-$50 for the HDMI AV adapter, you can easily take a Dremel or some other tool to a cheap HD-AV component cable and use that, instead.

Get rid of the extra plastic, and there's nothing stopping you from having HDMI video and optical or stereo audio at the same time.

Microsoft is just ganking us on this one. Don't pay the "less plastic" tax. Buy a used component cable and hack it, instead.

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