Well, during my monthly run through ebgames to check for any previews to write. I found an interesting item come up to display while searching.

GameStop Universal Premium HDMI Cable

At first glance, I said to myself “what, HDMI is not possible for the Xbox 360.” I also do not claim to be a techno guru with the T.V department but that what they were selling. I was searching around the xbox forums to see if this is old news and an interesting tidbit led to quote from anandtech posted by Nielo TM:

"Originally we assumed the chip below was a TV encoder, but we've since found out that the TV encoder on ATI's Xenos GPU is identical to what is on the ATI Radeon X1000 series of PC graphics cards - meaning the Xbox 360's TV encoder is located on the Xenos GPU itself and makes use of ATI's Xilleon display engine.”

"The display engine also features the hardware that actually drives the display output, and Avivo has a number of enhancements here. Dual 400MHz 10-bit per component DAC's remain, as in previous graphics implementations, however this time the TV-Out display engine has been lifted directly from ATI's consumer electronics Xilleon processor (this engine can be found to be driving the displays of many Sony televisions, for example). The last generation of Radeon products only integrated a single link, 165MHz, TMDS transmitter for DVI output, however Avivo products will feature two integrated dual link transmitters, hence two digital panels can be independently driven to 2048×1536 @ 75 Hz or 2560x1600 resolutions."

Click Here to read the whole article by anandtech.

To reiterate what the above quotes mean is that the Xbox 360 is capable of producing digitial image/audio output. Hopefully I'm not breaking old news to everyone but it is still going to be a interesting view of a Xbox 360 HDMI Cable. The GameStop Universal Premium HDMI Cable is schedule for release on December, 1st 2006 for 99.99 dollars (not surprising).

No idea and I hear the ps3 doesn't come with an HDMI cable so thats like another $100 added onto the price tag?

If the cable costs 100 dollars from gamestop, they sony cable will cost more.

This is great news but man $100 for an HDMI cable why are they priced so expensively ?

this is retardation. what the chip supports is IRRELLEVANT. you need an EXTRA chip to support HDCP, which isn't there, and the connector itself doesn't support HDMI.

that article is just wrong.

you can buy an HDMI cable for $5. anyone who tells you an HDMI cable costs $100 should be punched in the throat.

Xbox360 has no need for an HDMI cable anyway… And the VGA cable is the best option for picture quality, at least for games.

Firstly you need more than 1 chip for HDCP everything from the CPU to the GPU has to be HDCP compatible.

Secondly it's been talked about to death, it's likely that both the PS3 and 360 won't be using HDCP, did you forget that the cheap PS3 don't have HDMI/HDCP either ?

Thirdly as for your HDMI cables for $5 i think thats bollox show me, and even if you could i doubt they would be much good.

Either you must be joking OR you must be joking.

unless you have an HDTV of course!

or you don't know what you're talking about.