My OG Xbox Lives with HDMI and DD5.1, it's glorious!

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I had my OG Xbox I purchased new put away for the past 13 years. My daughter’s now 5-½ and getting interested in video games, so I pulled it out. I was please to find I had the original Xbox High Definition AV Pack, and my Denon AVR does have a set of component video inputs and TOS Optical inputs. Yet end the end, I ended up going the HDMI and TOS optical route with this:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6MB726X?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

This converter was new to Amazon, zero reviews, but I liked the specs and I liked that it had a TOS optical cable connection for Dolby Digital 5.1, which almost no others have. I’ve seen a lot of reviews on these OG Xbox HDMI converters that are pretty negative, but I figured with Amazon’s generous return policy I’d have nothing to lose to try this converter. It was delivered overnight w/Amazon Prime. Came in a small box, and was well packaged, coming with the converter, as well as a nice HDMI cable, a cable management Velcro strap, and an instruction manual. Note that the optical cable is not included. The converter itself looks very well made, housed in a high quality aluminum housing. I plugged the converter into my OG Xbox, and then ran the HDMI and optical cables to my Denon AVR, and made the appropriate configuration changes to the AVR.

I fired up my OG Xbox from its 13 year slumber, and amazingly it came right to life! I couldn’t resist firing up Doom3, and it looked glorious on my 70” Samsung! I think this converter’s a winner folks, $25 and it works great!
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