Bought an HD-TV: Waste of Money
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You need only plug in the Green, Red, Blue cables to your TV component inputs which will have corresponding colours, and the red/white on in the same corresponding coloured inputs, that's your sound.
Now make sure you have the TV on the Component channel, after that go to your 360 setting and enter the display tab, and stick it up tp 720p, you will see a big difference.
Its sound to me you either have the cables in the wrong slots our you have them in the composite inputs.
Now make sure you have the TV on the Component channel, after that go to your 360 setting and enter the display tab, and stick it up tp 720p, you will see a big difference.
Its sound to me you either have the cables in the wrong slots our you have them in the composite inputs.
Just a random question, do the 'colors' on those cords matter? Like, with a DVD player hookup to my SDTV, I have...I forget, I think the Green, Blue and so forth mentioned and the typical White, Red, Yellow, but I didn't get the Green and Blue cord set, just the Red, Yellow, White ones. Long story short, in my initial set up, I managed to get decent sound but the picture was shit, so my father helped me with a couple extra cords he had (I couldn't even begin to tell which cord was which now its been so long) to help fix the picture. Kinda dimmed the sound...but whatever.
But I was just curious, does the 'color' matter, or can you just make sure the right connections are made?
But I was just curious, does the 'color' matter, or can you just make sure the right connections are made?
The color does matter.
Only hook up the cords to the correct color plugs.
With a DVD player, you should have Green, Blue & Red (if you're using component video) or just one big plug (if HDMI).
Only hook up the cords to the correct color plugs.
With a DVD player, you should have Green, Blue & Red (if you're using component video) or just one big plug (if HDMI).
So, there is a difference? I had a feeling there might be (else, why the frak would you go through the trouble of color coding things?), but for the mean time everything does work, I do get video and sound, the cords are connected in the right plugs (even if the colors are "wrong"). I don't think I can do HDMI, I am not certain if the TV has it, but I think the DVD player has one...bah. Anyway, just to be clear, did you mean if you had a HDMI cord, you wouldn't need any other cord period (with the exception of the power one, of course) or does that just take care of the video?
^ Yes, there is a difference. If the colors appear wrong (when looking at the image), then you hooked it up wrong somehow. If you use component video, you should have red, green and blue cables for video. (Y/Pb/Pr) Audio is different - either you have analog audio (white and red) or digital audio (usually orange).
HDMI is one cable that carries both audio and video.
HDMI is one cable that carries both audio and video.
I should mention, that I've done what Mr. B has said, I've matched the ports, even if the color's don't match (because I don't own the green and blue cables), the cables themselves are matched to the TV and DVD player in terms of connection (if that even made better sense?).
Thanks for the answer on HDMI, didn't quite know that one.
Thanks for the answer on HDMI, didn't quite know that one.
Well yes, all the wires themselves are the same physically, but why make it more complicated by having to translate the color coding? Additionally, on the 360's AV cable there's one giant plug on one end and all the colored ones on the other... so in that case, yes, the colors absolutely matter.
That's how I interpreted the question. I've had to use a pair of the yellow/white/red cables to make a component video and audio connection between a HDTV and DVR before. A poor, misguided friend of mine was using a coax cable to hook up her HD DVR to her 42'' flat screen. I nearly cried. The whole time she was paying for high-def service and didn't even know it.
To make a component video connection, you should only use cables designed for that specific purpose. Don't use just any old cables you get from Radio Shack or places like that. The quality will suffer if you do that.
I didn't really use any old cable, they are designed to do that, what I used, it's just not the red green blue one (so maybe I am wrong and didn't use the proper designed one), I'd like to, if not for the sake of my sanity (I get OCD about stuff like that). Just a quick question (not meaning to hijack this topic or anything), but where would a HDMI outlet on a TV be? Same general area as the other jacks and the like? I just want to make sure I hadn't looked in the wrong spot for one.
^ Most current HDTVs have a separate connection that is clearly labelled HDMI. It's in the same general area that all the other jacks are, but you can't really miss it. And it's a different shape, more flattish.
As for the component video cable - you don't have to get an *expensive* one. Just make sure you get one that is clearly labelled as a component video cable, and that has the red, blue and green connectors. You can usually get one for 10-20 bucks.
As for the component video cable - you don't have to get an *expensive* one. Just make sure you get one that is clearly labelled as a component video cable, and that has the red, blue and green connectors. You can usually get one for 10-20 bucks.
Or go online (monoprice.com, for example), and pay about $1. Pick up some HDMI for another buck, while you're at it. Bought 35' HDMI cables for about $25 each when I did my home theater system, it would make baby Jesus cry if you asked someone at a Best Buy how much that should have cost me...
Don't ask...
The physical color of the wire doesn't matter -in a pinch you can use RCA cords for component video- so long as the connections on each end of the wire match up.
To clarify on the use of RCA plugs, they "can" be used but some cheaper RCA wires use low-quality wires for the audio connections which will make video suffer somewhat. But good quality RCA wires "can" work for component video but you'd still be better off with decent quality component video wires.
To clarify on the use of RCA plugs, they "can" be used but some cheaper RCA wires use low-quality wires for the audio connections which will make video suffer somewhat. But good quality RCA wires "can" work for component video but you'd still be better off with decent quality component video wires.
Oh, I'm sure there would have been loan paperwork involved in that process. if a 6' cable costs $100, when it can be sold online, at a profit, for a dollar, than a 35' cable would be crazy. Especially since I got a much thicker, shielded cable (i think 24 AWG was what I ended up with, with extra layers of shielding) than the standard 28 AWG cable they sell you.
Actually, anyone have any idea what a cable that length would go for in a retail store?
