Reddit reviews Microsoft Xbox 360 Component HD AV Cable

You cannot run 720p (or 1080p) through a composite signal. You need a component cable (red,blue,green w/red & white audio):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite_video

https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Xbox-360-Component-HD-Cable/dp/B000B6MLPU

Unfortunately it appears your television doesn't have component inputs.

You could try something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Portta-N3CVRHP-Component-Converter-support/dp/B003VJ9RP6 but at this point you're approaching the cost of a more recent secondhand 360 with hdmi.

That connection is only capable of standard definition TV ( 480i )

At the bare minimum connect via a component cable, it will have the white and red audio cables, a yellow composite cable, and a set of blue, green and red component video cables. Using the component video connection from this cable will allow you use either 720p or 1080i.

I connect one of our Xboxes to our TV with component video and it does 1080i just fine. Our other Xbox is on my desk and connects to my monitor via the Xbox VGA cable and is running at the LCD monitor's native resolution of 1680x1050 and looks very good.

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• Component cable
  
• VGA Cable
  

I'm not aware of a consumer-level capture card that can capture audio over HDMI and a secondary input simultaneously. My recommendation is to switch the cable coming out of your Xbox360 from HDMI to HD Component, then plug the audio from the Xbox360 into a small mixer along with your mic. Then plug the output of the mixer and the HD video from the Xbox into a capture card like this one.

Now you can play the game and talk into the mic, using the mixer to control the levels of each. The whole shebang will then be recorded by your capture device.

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What I need is this cord. It doesn't look like like much, but my nephews don't have one, and I have to babysit them over the summer, and it would make it a whole lot easier on me if they were able to play multiplayer Minecraft. Which you need this cord for.

I have one of the non HDMI xbox's as well. This is what came with my premium(at the time) bundled xbox and is what I am using. Works and looks great.

The XBox 360 does support analog audio output, if you use the component HD AV cable. It includes analog stereo RCA outputs. http://amzn.com/B000B6MLPU

From the product description:

>The AVerTV HD DVR - is a High Definition / Analog video capture card. It's equipped with HDMI and through the included dongle cable, Component, S-Video and Composite Video input interface.

Your Xbox 360 is easily capable of both composite and component output. composite will suck, but your Xbox 360 originally came with at least a composite cable. But if I were you, I'd spend $6 and get a component AV cable. Component output is analog, but so is VGA, and it is every bit as capable of 1080p as a VGA connector.

I would not advise getting any kind of analog to digital converter (beyond the capture card). You are already looking at some lag, no reason to risk increasing it. If you want to use HDMI, buy an Xbox 360 with an HDMI port. You can pick one up used for less than $100.

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I agree with CybaRJJ here. This is becomming an oddly common issue with Panasonic TVs and 360s. Although I do see Sony having it as well. At this point there really isn't any way to remove it from the blacklist (firmware update has worked for some, but as with all firmware updates... proceed at your own risk).

I would honestly recommend picking up the Component HD cable. I'm certain your 42" supports it and it's 6 bucks on Amazon. You'll get that same HD video, but only stereo audio unless you've got an optical cable to plug into you receiver.

Component cable: http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-360-Component-HD-AV-Cable/dp/B000B6MLPU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1373564366&sr=8-1&keywords=xbox+component+cable

Panasonic Firmware: http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/tv/download/fw/index.html

http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Xbox-360-Component-HD-Cable/dp/B000B6MLPU

This would let you do HD out of the xbox as component. However the projector is only XGA (1024x768) so it will be scaled down to fit.

Edit: sorry meant to reply to your reply, wrong text box

If your TV does indeed do 1024x768 then you should be fine with it.

You should be fine at standard-defintion resolutions (480 vertical pixels) using the yellow (composite) cable that comes with the console, but a component cable should give a sharper picture even on standard-definition (depending on your TV and the quality of your eyesight) and will take full advantage of the resolution of a 1024x768 telly.

• Component cable for Xbox 360
  
• Component cable for PS3
  
  If you're buying a new telly soon, then maybe see if you can get away with the yellow composite cable for a while, because any new TV will have an HDMI cable, and that will give a better picture (depending the TV and your eyesight) than component. The HDMI cable will be a bit cheaper, and you'd always choose it over component.
  
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