XBox: Do I have to use component video if I want to use digital audio? (1 Viewer)

[Jeff Holton]

I want to hook up my XBox with digital sound using an optical cable... so far, the only hookup that I have found that has an optical output... has only component video... not S-video. Has anyone seen anything that will allow me to use optical cable for the audio, but S-video for the video?

 

[GaryP]

Jeff,
What you need rather than the HD pack is in fact the Advanced AV pack, which can be found many places, including the local WallyMart. It'll have the S-Video output along with the optical out. I believe they threw in a composite video connection as well, I can't remember right off the top off my head though.

Gary

 

[Edan W]

I believe they threw in a composite video connection as well, I can't remember right off the top off my head though.

Actually, there is only the s-video and RCA video connection on the advanced AV pack...no component (I bought it a week ago and promptly played my way through half of Halo again just to enjoy the improved audio).

 

[Dave Falasco]

Yeah, just to clarify:

Advanced pack: S-video, digital audio (Toslink), analog audio (red and white RCA)

HD pack: Component video, digital audio, analog audio.

 

[Dan B]

To further clarify about the Advanced AV pack:
Advanced AV pack:
Composite video, S Video, analogue audio, Toslink.
If this isn't in the Next-Gen. console FAQ sticky thread, it should be.
-Dan B.

 

[GaryP]

Note I used the word composite (you even quoted it), not component
Gary