xbox360 hdmi to dvi

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Mccaula718

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I have a 19 inch widescreen lcd with a dvi port on it and a 360 with hdmi on it. I would like to just buy a cheap hdmi to dvi-d cable and hook that up while using audio/video cable that came with the 360 to hook up to my audio reciever for sound. In theory this should all work, but i am curious if other people have the same working setup.
 
Mccaula718 said:
I have a 19 inch widescreen lcd with a dvi port on it and a 360 with hdmi on it. I would like to just buy a cheap hdmi to dvi-d cable and hook that up while using audio/video cable that came with the 360 to hook up to my audio reciever for sound. In theory this should all work, but i am curious if other people have the same working setup.
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Take a look at the back of your 360 with the stock audio/video cable plugged in. The end of the audio/video cable that comes with the 360 is bulky, covering part of the hdmi port. This unfortunately means that you can't use the stock cable for audio and then plug in an hdmi cable.

I ended up buying the m$ licensed hdmi cable, which comes with an hdmi cable and another cable that looks like an audio-only version of the stock cable but its end is thin enough that you can plug the hdmi in at the same time. I hated paying m$ $50 for it, but my monitor at the time didn't have audio out.
 
I'll deffinitely just break open the adapter to save all that money. The hdmi to dvi will work correctly though right as they are just the same cable, minus audio?
 
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