Hi-tech-tv.com: Television technology news & answers

Question: Today, I am the happy owner of a Sony 40″ LCD HDTV. 1080p and 120htz. I’m just waiting for it to be delivered. Yea!!!

Anyway, I intend on purchasing some HDMI cable to hook up my cable box and Blue-ray player. I was hoping to do the same for my XBox360, but it seems my Xbox doesn’t have an HDMI output. Has anyone run into this issue, and what did they do to remedy it? I’m trying to figure out if I need to buy some kind of adapter, do I need to replace my XBox console or just live with the component cables I’ve got?

Any input would be much appreciated.

Answer: I think they sell an adapter. I have seen it in the Xbox section in Best Buy but I’m not sure who makes it.

Answer 2: I have the 40″ Sony Bravia and it’s fantastic. I play the XBox360 without HDMI cables. I use the red, yellow and white adaptor cables. It looks great but I hear with an HDMI it will be even better.

Answer 3: There is an xbox360 hdmi conversion kit. They sell a conversion kit for it.

Pioneer is getting out of the flat-panel display business by 2010 despite the excellent quality of their Kuro plasma TVs. Sales in HDTV have gone way down – Pioneer reported a net loss of 26.15 billion yen ($290.52 million), down from 1.69 billion yen ($18.76 million) the previous year.