Hi,

I recently bought a 360 Elite and have hooked it up to my TV through HDMI. Then I wanted to run the audio through my Bose 3-2-1 unit via a digital optical audio cable, but was unable to get any sound from the Bose, despite the audio being routed directly from the Xbox to the Bose unit. Does anyone have a suggestion as to what might be wrong, other than the cable perhaps being faulty? Any help is appreciated...thank you.

AC

Cant use HDMI and Optical outputs at the same time...It's either HDMI for everything or Component and Optical....could be wrong though!

I thought that at first, but why would they specifically make an optical audio dongle that fits the 360 while the HDMI is plugged in? I don't particularly care if it's an optical cable connection...I just want to be able to use my subwoofer and speakers :)

Yeah I know about that...YOu might need to check under system settings. I would honestly just try it out with the HDMI unplugged use svideo or whatever and try the optical...if that works you know what the issue is. And it could be a setting under the 360 system menu. I'm not familiar with the operation of that bose system though.

I'll try it in the morning and see if that works out...thanks for the suggestion. I'm just tired of screwing with it now. Sometimes technology is a pain in the a**

Cant use HDMI and Optical outputs at the same time...It's either HDMI for everything or Component and Optical....could be wrong though!

Not only COULD you be wrong, you ARE wrong. There are many people that use optical out on the 360 with HDMI for the video.

To the OP, i don't know what could be wrong. Optical + HDMI is working fine for me.

P.J.

The optical dongle works for my elite and my hdmi is hooked up also. Maybe your elite is defective.

Check to make sure that the optical cable is seated tightly on both ends. I have an Elite and HDMI works just fine with the optical cable.

Not only COULD you be wrong, you ARE wrong. There are many people that use optical out on the 360 with HDMI for the video.

To the OP, i don't know what could be wrong. Optical + HDMI is working fine for me.

P.J.

Put me down as one of those people who are using the Optical out and HDMI at the same time. It was really easy to set up too.

dabowlr, do me a favor, dont read anything above my post.

you need to assign the optical input on your bose 321 to a specific input. i.e. if you have an "aux" slot open in the 321, it needs to be looking for the optical input signal.

the optical settings can be found in the media menu of the 321 osd, the default setting is "none" so the optical is off... you can then assign it to tv, or cable/sat, or aux. in which case you would choose the auxillary input (aux) and you would get sound directly from the xbox via the optical cable.

http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/3121/boseoj5.png

or you could do like anyone else with a 2ch system, run hdmi to the tv, and run the tv audio out (rca) to the 321 on the "tv" or "aux" input.

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You need to make sure that the cable is seated properly at each end and then make sure that your Bose's optical input is actually selected. Have you used the optical input previously? If not, then you might have to test all your input buttons until you find the one that it's using.

What version of 3-2-1 Bose do you have? Didn't they just starting putting in 1 optical input on those? Because it came with a built-in dvd player it usually didn't have a optical in. They usually come with a lot less inputs when compared to even a HTIB.

Bose. Heh.

Thank you to everyone that responded.

Formulanerd, followed your instructions and it worked like a charm. I am not an AV expert, but I just don't understand why you should have to "activate" the optical input....especially when the option is not even alluded to under the audio menu. lol. Either way though, it works and I don't have to plug and play a hundred different cables to find the problem

ac

Thank you to everyone that responded.

Formulanerd, followed your instructions and it worked like a charm. I am not an AV expert, but I just don't understand why you should have to "activate" the optical input....especially when the option is not even alluded to under the audio menu. lol. Either way though, it works and I don't have to plug and play a hundred different cables to find the problem

ac

yea, the main problem is that EACH input source has a coaxial digital input, so i'm guessing it can only do one digital at once, and you have to tell it which input is using the optical and it'll deactivate the coaxial.

glad i could help.