So the drama of the broken Xbox has come to a close…. I have lived and learned…. I learned that you should be wary of buying used technology from people on used_crap.com sites…. Voided warrenties are a bitch!  But Iike I said, the drama is over…. I broke down and bought a brand spankin new system from my friendly neighbourhood EB Games…. I thought to myself… “Well at least I can hang on to my old hard drive and stuff… and the new system will have that lovely new little HDMI port that I’ve been dieing to try out…”  So I snagged the newer version of the Xbox Arcade (used to be the core system)   YES that’s right…. even the core system comes with an HDMI port!  Ain’t that grand!  Mmmmm one cable…..  But then I found out something crappy…. the Optical Audio Out on my TV…. won’t transmit anything to my audio reciever…. So I think…. that’s not right….. and I scour the owner’s manual on how to get it working, assuring myself it’s just a setting nestled somewhere in the mirriad of menu settings for my TV…. but no luck…. As a helpful little forum I found online told me…. The Sony Grand Wega Optical output only outputs sound from a cable or satellite source……… WTF!!!  Yup…. not from the HDMI….. how dumb is that?  sigh…. anyway so on top of that I found out that you need to buy a $60 adapter to use the optical out and the HDMI at the same time…. that’s a bummer eh?  Well actually there’s a little trick you can do… you can snap the plastic cover off the end of the Xbox HD cable plug and both the HDMI and the HD output adapter will plug snuggly into the back of your Xbox and then you can have both the HDMI and Optical….. Only problem with this situation?  I bought the Core…. no HD cable….  So for now I have the TV outputting Stereo sound to the reciever and dealing with “Simulated” 5.1…. It’s not so bad….. I guess…..

Either way I am psyched to have my system up and running…. even if I don’t have any excuses for late comics now

RAWB

PS: Sorry if this post has alot of spelling errors and such… I’m posting at work and the spellcheck crashes Firefox…