Kyle T
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I've got a cheapass 2.1 speaker set for my telly (which also cheapass) as the speakers built into my TV suck, and rattle with any bass 
I've got my SkyHD box wired into the speaker set via those phono cable thingies (one for Right, and one for Left) - and they plug into the back of the sub which also doubles up as the 'control unit' or whatever you call it.
I've also now got my 360 working after months of rotting with RROD, and it plugs into the telly via HDMI - but the sound through the TV speakers is already doing my head in so I'd like to send the sound to my 2.1 setup too.
I've seen:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/XBOX-360-Optical-Phono-Audio-Adapter-Cable-DONGLE_W0QQitemZ250510403306QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_VideoGames_VideoGameAccessories_VideoGameAccessories_JN?hash=item3a539566ea#ht_3602wt_940
which If I understand right should allow the video to remain through HDMI, yet the audio is split off down phono cables, or optical. (does anyone know any non-ebay retailer which sells these? I've got no idea what to google for - and stumbled across it on ebay  )
In my case I'd use the phono cables, but then my 2.1 sub only has one set of input available, which my sky box is currently using. Are there any cheap* solutions to 'merging' two sources of phono, into a single set of plugs?
*I realise the 'proper' solution would be to buy an AV amp which could just take both HDMI inputs and output them to a decent speaker setup - but my TV setup really isn't worth throwing too much money at, so I'd much prefer to spend a few quid on cables and adapters to make it work
Hopefully that all makes sense...
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Google for "Optical Phono Audio Adapter Cable" -- I believe they only came in bundled Xbox 360's so I doubt you'll find a retailer who sells them. I may be wrong, though.
...and yes, something like this: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190344417677
You'll need two of them obviously. Plug both L's into one and both R's into the other.
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Kyle T
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Registered: 11th Sep 04
Location: Selby, North Yorkshire
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Just logged back onto CS as I'd been poking round the maplin website and found exactly what I needed, so was going to delete this thread
Cheers anyway, I'll sort the xbox adapter from ebay and a couple of phono 'mergers'.
Will leave this thread up, might help someone else out one day, who knows 
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