Customer Reviews

Xbox 360 8' HD Component Cable

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(7)

 

 

I bought these cables right before the Xbox 360 came out. Soon afterwards, I hooked it up and couldn't get the digital audio to work. The receiver noticed it was getting a signal, but apparently the cable was corrupting it. Don't waste the money on these. Spend the money on first party accessories.

Image quiality is poor, this is a very unreliable product. Spend the extra $ for the microsoft cables.

I bought this cable set thinking "Gee, it's much cheaper than the microsoft one!"

I wasted 2 hours fiddling with my receiver trying to get the digital audio to work. Finally I gave up and got the official Microsoft one (which worked like a charm)

Steer clear of this product.

Digital audio does not work, video does. I gave it one star because it has a completely broken feature. Unacceptable!

Plan on keeping your 360 somewhat near to your television, this isn't the world's longest cable, but the quality is great, it has component hookups and also works as a regular hook up. This is the least expensive cable I could find on the internet and for the money it is fantastic. Amazon must have sent it right away because I got it within 3 days despite choosing "super saver shipping." I've had it for over a month now and I'm 100% satisfied. Just pay attention to the length and make sure that you don't plan on placing your 360 a long distance away (i.e. outside your entertainment system would probably be too far,) although most people keep their entertainment peripherals in the vicinity of their TV anyway so this shouldn't be a problem for 99% of users.

This component video cable for the Xbox 360 does not provide digital audio. While it does have a hole/slot to plug an optical audio cable into, the slot does not work. I plugged an optical audio cable into the slot, and ran the other end to my digital audio/video receiver. Low and behold, NO digital audio! Do yourself a favor and buy another version of the cable (such as the Microsoft version) if you plan on using digital audio with your Xbox 360. When I used the MS version of the cable the digital audio works great! On a positive note, the component video for this cable does work if that's all you need.

The digital audio connector just doesn't work.

Funny how it says it is an HDMI cable, yet it is not. Component Video people.

This is completly mislabled. HDMI is a plug that looks like an oversized USB cable. ONLY NEWER HD SETS even have an HDMI slot. HDMI is a newer form of the Digital DVI cable seen on many PC video cards.

Component HD cables which come with the XBOX 360, even though they produce true HD, are only an ANALOGUE cable.

HDMI is a DIGITAL HD cable.

It's like the difference between a coaxal audio and an optical audio cable. Both can produce true 5.1 surround sound but one is analogue, the other is digital.

As far as I know, there is no HDMI cables on the market for the 360 yet. I found this mislabled product while searching for the release date of the HDMI cable.