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Well, I have one HDMI slot on my basement tv, but I just purchased a surround sound system with two HDMI inputs. I have a 360 with an HDMI slot and a Cable box with an HDMI slot. They are currently both on component and my PS3 is on my HDMI slot. Which would I benefit the most from. Using the extra HDMI slot for my 360 or my cable box.
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What do you use more? The 360 or the cable box? I think I'd rather have the HDMI running from the 360 to the receiver so you are able to get surround sound while playing games. Makes a much greater gaming experience IMO. I guess if you watch a lot of movies and shows on tv that support 5.1 surround, etc... it might be worth using the HDMI for the cable box. You PS3 already takes care of games/dvd's/blu-ray so that's good.
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I can get surround sound through the digital out on the 360.
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I'm leaning towards the cable box because it uses more cables. The 360 is one connection on one side and 5 on the other. The box uses 5 cables on both ends. I'm just wondering if there will be a difference in the video quality.
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Use the HDMI for your cable box, use the 360 component cables and digital out for sound, I'm in the same boat as you. The 360 looks the same through component or HDMI.
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Well... Your cable box will only send you standard audio. Meaning you'll only get Dolby Digital and MAYBE DTS through it. And it'll be 5.1 only. All the other sound formats aren't sent down to you. So HDMI on the cable box is a big waste. In addition, there's no upscaling or HDCP anything on the cable box. So you should just run component and use the digital audio out jack on the cable box, because that's gonna be EXACTLY the same as if you ran HDMI out.
Where as with the 360, if you have an HDMI model. You would get more sound modes from games that support other sound formats than just Dolby Digital and DTS. (Like Pro Logic II and 6.1 and 7.2 and stuff like that.) Plus, the DVD player in the 360 (If you were to use it) will only upscale your video when it's going through HDMI.
If you run the audio out the 360 via optical than you are only going to get Dolby Digital and DTS. No other sound formats are permitted or sent through optical out. Due to HDCP copy protection.
So, the best choice at the moment is to run component out of the cable box and HDMI out of the 360. Neither choice is going to be earth shatteringly different, but you gain nothing by doing it on the cable box, where-as on the 360 you do gain a little.
K
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cable HD usually likes like dookie
I'd go with nice crispy graphics on the 360
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I had to choose between HDMI for the PS3 or the cable box. I picked the PS3 since the cable box loks just as good through component. Although with the 360 I am not sure about any sound advantage from the HDMI. I am not sure if any game supports anything other than DD5.1. I have seen a handful of PS3 games use DTS. Even the HD-DVD player wouldn't pass anything "hi def" they converted everything to DD5.1, DTS, of WMA-PRO. But if you use the 360 as a DVD player get the HDMI for the upconversion at least.
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You can go around and around with this stuff. It's a slight improvement to have the HDMI on the 360 because cable gives you nothing. But it won't sink the ship to have it the other way. It means more with a PS3 or a Media Center PC.
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For now Ill use a VGA cable for my 360 (I forgot I had one.) and an HDMI for my Cable box. My receiver is only 5.1 so I don't think I'd see much benefit in using HDMI over digital out for sound. I use my PS3 as an up convert DVD player as well as a Blu Ray player so I use HDMI on that.
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I have my 360 going in VGA as well. I think it looks pretty good and before I had the PS3 I used it to upconvert. I only have 1 HDMI on my TV so I had to choose between the cable box and the PS3. And the main reason I chose the HDMI for the PS3 was because I already had an HDMI cable. And I had component cables for the cable box. So it was purely so I didn't have to buy a new cable for the PS3. Thank you HDMI spec for not allowing proprietary connectors!
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"Thank you HDMI spec for not allowing proprietary connectors!"
What?
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I am pretty sure that part of the HDMI standard is that if you are providing a HDMI connection, it has to be a standard connector, not proprietary (like the analog AV connectors for the xbox360 and PS3, i.e. for component cables you have to buy special 360 or PS3 component cables).
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That's interesting, didn't know that. Thanks for the info.
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