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Can I hook up my HDMI Cable to my 360 without having to hook up my yellow, red and white cables?

Hi, I want to hook up my 360 to my hd tv in my rec-room. The problem is my TV is mounted to the wall and I cant get behind it. The good news is that my dad recently hooked up a hdmi cable to our dvd player which is hooked up to 2 stereos. So, can anybody tell me if i can just use the HDMI Cable to play on my xbox without having the Yellow, Red and White cables.

Interesting. Two posts, one says no and one says yes. The truth is that it depends. The older X-box would not send sound over HDMI so you had to hook up digital sound cables in addition to the HDMI for video. The newer X-box will properly send both video and sound over the HDMI cable. However, only the very newest receivers will both decode HDMI sound and pass the video through to the TV.

You should never use the red/white/yellow cables for the best sound and video. HDMI is the only cable that will transmit digital video though component (red, blue, and green) video is close. Composite video (the yellow one) is the worst and of course 5.1 sound is far better than stereo (red and white) sound. They bundle the red, white, and yellow cables together but it is still composite video and stereo sound, not good for games at all.