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I decided two self absorbed nerd posts were not enough to convey my excitement regarding my new theatre setup, so here is the third and final installment for your my enjoyment. The addition of an Xbox 360 and HD DVD drive finally brought full 1080i content to my HD hungry projector. The built-in media center extender also supports playback of my HDTV recordings currently served over the wireless adapter which surprisingly provides sufficient reliable bandwidth. The recent addition of an HDMI port to the "premium" Xbox 360 package made it an obvious choice, but my projector lacks a digital audio out port, so the digital audio in the HDMI cable had nowhere to go. The included Xbox component cables only offer analog audio, or an optical digital port, and wouldn't fit with the HDMI cord plugged in. The "official" solution from Microsoft is the Xbox HDMI AV Cable which magically fits alongside the HDMI cable for an additional fee of $50, but again with only an optical digital audio output. Being a cheap bastard, and lacking an optical digital audio input on my HTS3555 receiver, I found this hack to create a coax digital audio output which was so easy it made me wonder why Microsoft is so against including one in their cables. Maybe they struck a deal with the optical audio cable companies who don't want you to know digital audio is identical over optical or coax cables (ok fine, excluding long distances). My digital audio rant aside, my new setup is finally complete, aside from some much needed screen goo.