Old xbox 360 without hdmi port to hook up to a first time hdtv

actually the best thing you could get would be vga cables, if your hdtv doesnt run at only base 720p

we got a 720p samsung and component looked ok but there was a horrible delay between controller input and what showed on screen

most games were ok to play except twitch games like halo

soooooo i got vga cables, and everything is perfect now, plus the graphics look better than composite

The core edition only came with regular audio/video cables right? I think the best you can do is buy the composite cables it will run in high def but not full 1080p. I am in the same boat, PS3 has HDMI, 360 nope. It looks good though with composite so I don't really care. As for an adapter, to my knowledge nothing exists that will do what you want, though I may be wrong.Senor_T_Dub

You mean component cables there, composite are the Yellow, Red and White cables, which will only give you SD.

Plus component can output 1080p, except for HD-DVD, which is limited to 1080i I think -- otherwise, if your TV has a VGA input, you could buy the VGA cable.

To be honest I'm not that tech savvy yet, I looked at the specs for a bunch of different TVs but none of them sad VGA on connectivity..would that be any of these..

ConnectorsAV 1: (1, 2, 3Fh autoranging), Audio L/R in, CVBS in, S-Video, YPbPr

AV 2: Audio L/R in, CVBS

AV 3: (1, 2, 3Fh autoranging), Audio L/R in, YPbPr

AV 4: HDMI, Audio L/R in

AV 5: HDMI

AV 6: HDMI

Front / Side connections: Audio L/R in, CVBS in, Headphone out, S-video in, USB

Other connections: Monitor out L/R (Cinch), S/PDIF in (coaxial), S/PDIF out (coaxial) HDMI3

i would go component or vga (different people have had different results depending on the tv)

If your tv has a vga connection it will it will probably call it a PC connection. Its easy to spot, it the (almost) rectangular blue input with a lot of little holes in it

Hi there!!

  I was just wondering if someone could answer my question about component cables.  Alas my Xbox 360 is older so it has no HDMI port.  I was wondering if I simply used component cables would it give me the same resolution as say playing Fallout 3 that a HDMI cable would playing the game.

Thanks in advance.

Component will only get you 1080i at most which is comparable to 720p. You want 1080p for sure to get the most out of it. So far the only thing I have found that claims to produce 1080p for the XBOX 360 without the HDMI port is a device made by XMC. http://www.xcm.cc/xcm_1080p_hdmi_cable_for_360_1st_gen_console.htm

To be honest I'm not that tech savvy yet, I looked at the specs for a bunch of different TVs but none of them sad VGA on connectivity..would that be any of these..

ConnectorsAV 1: (1, 2, 3Fh autoranging), Audio L/R in, CVBS in, S-Video, YPbPr

AV 2: Audio L/R in, CVBS

AV 3: (1, 2, 3Fh autoranging), Audio L/R in, YPbPr

AV 4: HDMI, Audio L/R in

AV 5: HDMI

AV 6: HDMI

Front / Side connections: Audio L/R in, CVBS in, Headphone out, S-video in, USB

Other connections: Monitor out L/R (Cinch), S/PDIF in (coaxial), S/PDIF out (coaxial) HDMI3

BKLoungeBouncer

HDMI to component converters can be a little pricey.

However, YPbPr is component. That should be a red, a blue and a green plug. Based on the above, you have 2 component slots. You can use either. You may as well just get the component cables that are readily available at any gaming or big box store like BestBuy or CircuitCity.

Good Luck!

Why HDMI wasnt built into the Xenon Boards, I dont know.

I was looking at the HDMI cable from Microsoft and found out that since my 360 doesn't have an HDMI port I couldn't use it directly with it..how would I go about hooking it up to the new hdtv, this will be my first one.BKLoungeBouncer

onl aunch day the arcade pack (the hard drive-less machine with a wired controller....) did NOT come with component (red/blue/gree/red/white), but instead ONLY came with composite (yellow/red/white). to best looking image he can get out of his machine is either component or VGA. Both will gove a very good picture, only difference is that VGA will upscale the DVDs. silly xbox doesnt upscale DVDs over component, yet if the video file was on a USB then it would....

component cables CAN DO 1080P IF YOUR TV CAN ACCEPT 1080p over component. you cacn get 1080p HD DVD via VGA only as well on this machine if you had the HD player (of which i am the proud owner of one, also own a Toshy E1 and about 100 HD dvds, also havea combo bluray/HD DVD rom in my PC as backup)

This thread has been revived from the depths of the board 3 times :|.

EDIT: FOUR times.

The core edition only came with regular audio/video cables right? I think the best you can do is buy the composite cables it will run in high def but not full 1080p. I am in the same boat, PS3 has HDMI, 360 nope. It looks good though with composite so I don't really care. As for an adapter, to my knowledge nothing exists that will do what you want, though I may be wrong.Senor_T_Dub

COMPONENT, COMPONENT, composite is the sd cables.