HDMI specific Xbox 360 Elite details emerge

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Roland Haas @ Apr 1st 2007 1:16PM

It does give the option for optical audio to be used with HDMI, so in essence, there is no real need to be able to support 5.1 on the HDMI cable as the cable hooks up to the TV and TVs don't have 5.1. If you want 5.1 on HDMI 1.3 you still have to run an optical cable from wither your TV or your xbox360, and Microsoft is saying why bother with 1.3 when they can run an optical cable straight from the xbox360. So yes, there still should be a way to get 5.1 and HDMI, just not on one cable.

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Kevin @ Apr 1st 2007 3:38PM

Problem with the 5.1 over optical is it doesn't support Full bandwidth 5.1 DD+ and TrueHD soundtracks. It will simply convert these to DD or DTS and send it over Optical. This is why you need 5.1 PCM over HDMI, to allow these high bandwidth codecs to be decoded into PCM and passed through to your receiver. So yeah, the new Xbox 360 Elite isn't so elite after all. The old 360 can do everything this one can just not through HDMI.

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