june gloom on 2/10/2011 at 23:35
I spoke with Evabot about this a little while ago, but I've forgotten the conversation (in my defense, I was still pretty sick.) And I think I need to elaborate on my situation anyway.
Basically I want to clear some space off my desk (involving moving my printer to my dresser) and make an empty space for my consoles to occupy when I bring them out. I have a tiny little SD TV with jacks for composite cables (yellow video, white/red audio) as well as a headphone jack (very important at night.) Up until recently, I was content with using my HD consoles on it 'cuz I didn't really have a whole lot of options; but now that I have a very spiffy new monitor, I'm a bit spoiled and have decided it's time to make the switch. My other consoles- Wii, PS2, Gamecube- will remain where they are for now.
My monitor, a very spiffy U2211H, is decidedly un-spiffy in one specific area: it's got no HDMI :(
It has VGA, DVI, and DisplayPort, however. DVI is in use by my PC, which leaves me with VGA or DisplayPort, unless I can find some sort of switcher.
So here's the question.
How do I hook my 360 or PS3 up to the monitor, while routing the sound through my speakers?
The audio jack setup in the back: black, silver and orange sockets for surround (no use to me) and pink for a microphone, lime for speakers out, and light blue for line in. I've no idea if that's at all usable.
Any help would be appreciated.
Warren's Spectre on 2/10/2011 at 23:49
I'm having a similar problem at the moment because I've moved to student halls and have had to buy another xbox and want to buy a monitor instead of TV as I already have a hifi and monitor is cheaper.
What I'm thinking you need to do is a buy a cheap DVI to HDMI adapter from ebay or the like. The problem with that is you then lose your sound. This is where I don't know about the ps3 but I've heard on the xbox you can output the sound via the components while still having the hdmi being used for the video.
Ostriig on 3/10/2011 at 08:39
Quote Posted by Warren's Spectre
This is where I don't know about the ps3 but I've heard on the xbox you can output the sound via the components while still having the hdmi being used for the video.
Don't know about the X360, but the PS3 has a software toggle between outputting audio on the HDMI or through the composite. Mine is hooked up with an HDMI-to-DVI cable to the monitor, and the audio is straight out the composite and into my amplifier.
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[...] unless I can find some sort of switcher.
So here's the question.
How do I hook my 360 or PS3 up to the monitor, while routing the sound through my speakers?
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/HQ-DVI-and-Audio-Switch/dp/B000IAI57C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317631320&sr=8-1) Ding.
Well, you'd have to look one up in the US, or maybe check out how much it would cost you to cart one accross from the UK. This will solve the problem of splitting the DVI and stereo audio, I'm not sure whether it can help you do an easy switch between microphone input. I'm
guessing that you can just feed in a mono signal through that third RCA plug from the composite set.
Vernon on 4/10/2011 at 08:06
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