Xbox: How to connect the High Definition AV Pack (817146)

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Connect to a TV

As of December 2004, there are two major revisions of the Xbox High Definition AV pack:

• The original HDTV AV pack is a black box with a cable that connects to the Xbox console's AV port. The box has individual inputs for component video, stereo audio, and digital audio. You will have to provide your own component AV, stereo audio, or digital audio cabling to connect from the box to your television. This AV pack is no longer sold.
• The newer version has no black box. It is a long cable that plugs into the AV port of the Xbox console and ends in a component cables and stereo audio cables. The digital audio port is located on the end of the cable that plugs into the Xbox console's AV port. You will have to provide your own digital audio cabling to connect from the digital audio port to your television.

Use the Xbox High Definition AV Pack to connect the Xbox console to the component AV inputs of a TV that has component inputs, such as a High Definition TV (HDTV). To do this:

1. Verify that you have turned off the Xbox console.
2. Connect the Xbox AV connector to the AV port on the Xbox console.
3. If you have the original High Definition AV Pack, connect the component AV cable connectors to the AV pack and to the component video input on your TV.
   
   If you have the newer High Definition AV Pack, connect the component AV cable connectors to the component video input on your TV.
4. If you have the original High Definition AV Pack, connect the left and the right audio connectors to the AV pack and to the audio input on your TV.
   
   If you have the newer High Definition AV Pack, connect the left and the right audio connectors to the audio input on your TV.
5. Set the appropriate video input for your TV to display Xbox games. Common names for video input include Input Select, AUX, Line In, Line, In, Input, Source, Video 1, and EXT. For more information about video input, see your TV manual.
6. For high-definition TVs, you must select the appropriate video settings for the Xbox video game system. To do this:
   1. Turn on your Xbox console without a disc in the disc tray.
   2. On the Main screen, press the directional pad (D-pad) up or down to select Settings, and then press the A button.
   3. On the Settings screen, press the D-pad up or down to select Video, and then press the A button.
   4. On the Video screen, press the D-pad up or down to select the correct high-definition video setting for your TV, and then press the A button.
7. See your TV's documentation for the appropriate setting. The Xbox console provides the following selections: 480p, 720p, or 1080i. When you make this selection, you receive the following message:
   
   Does your HDTV support selected resolution?
   
   If your TV supports the resolution that you selected, press the D-pad left or right to select Yes, and then press the A button.

Connect to a Digital AV System

If your receiver has a digital audio input, you can connect to digital audio instead of to the standard left and right audio input.

To do this, connect the digital audio cable connectors to the digital audio output of the AV pack and to the digital audio input of your receiver.

Auto-Selection of widescreen

When you use the HD AV pack in widescreen (16:9) ratio while displaying in 480p, 720p, or 1080i mode, note that you may have to manually adjust your television to fit the Xbox display to the shape of the screen.

At the time the Xbox video game system was developed, there was not an established standard for alerting a monitor to a 480p wide-screen mode switch. Therefore, the console does not send a mode-switch signal while outputting in 480p, 720p, or 1080i mode. The console does send such a mode-switch signal while in 480i mode, as an established signal standard did exist for this mode when the Xbox video game system was developed