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Xbox360 to projector issues

Jun 2, 2009 4:34AM PDT

Hello,


I set up a home theater projector and now I am having issues with getting my xbox connected up. Any suggestions/help would be much appreciated.

The room has access to run varied cables through the ceiling via a plastic tube the builder put in the ceiling. One end comes out right where the projector sits and the other on the front wall where your equipment would go. Getting an HDMI cable (25 foot) was easy enough. The issue i'm finding now is how to get my xbox360 running through the projector.

I have one of the original 360's that doesn't have HDMI. Therefore, I must use the RCA cables that it comes with. My projector, however, doesn't support RCA, only component cables (along with Svid and HDMI).

So, essentially, my options appear to be:

finding a 25 foot component cable and somehow getting that in to the tube along with the HDMI (highly unlikely as the tube isn't really big enough)

some sort of conversion from HDMI to the original RCA cables (prefered if possible becuase I wouldn't need to rerun any cables).

Any thoughts?

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Component cables
Jun 2, 2009 6:56AM PDT
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thanks
Jun 3, 2009 12:31AM PDT

I can do that for sure but it goes back to the fact that I can't really feed the 25 footer through the ceiling. It's why I'm in the quandary I'm in. I'm hoping there's a way to utilize the HDMI that I've already fed through. The tube that the builder installed just isn't wide enough to effectively get an HDMI and component cable through it.

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Get another XBox.
Jun 3, 2009 4:02AM PDT

I picked up a refurb for under 200 that had HDMI so it is possible to go cheap and upgrade. The fact that cables cost money takes a little sting out of it. Not much.
Bob