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Title: XBox Remote: IR Receiver work with extension cable?
Post by: SpamMe on August 30, 2005, 10:09:25 pm

My xbox is kind of out of the way in the living room, and would be difficult to point a remote control at. Can I plug the IR receiver into an extension cable instead of directly into the xbox so that the receiver can be in a more convenient spot?

Title: Re: XBox Remote: IR Receiver work with extension cable?
Post by: JB on August 30, 2005, 10:16:49 pm

I don't see any reason it shouldn't work, but I haven't tested this personally.

Title: Re: XBox Remote: IR Receiver work with extension cable?
Post by: SOAPboy on August 31, 2005, 01:04:45 am

Should work  ;D

Title: Re: XBox Remote: IR Receiver work with extension cable?
Post by: Adeptus on August 31, 2005, 07:11:07 am

I thought most (all?) XBox extensions were for the little plug in the middle of the joystick cable, not the big one at the end... so if that was the case then it physically would not be possible to plug in.

Title: Re: XBox Remote: IR Receiver work with extension cable?
Post by: versapak on August 31, 2005, 08:08:50 am

Hip-gear makes (Made? Only place I ever saw em was at CompUSA, and they don't have em any more) an extension cable that had both a quick release and standard connection on it.

I have a couple of those, and the remote sensor works just fine on em.

You might be able to find similar types of extension cables at http://lik-sang.com .

Title: Re: XBox Remote: IR Receiver work with extension cable?
Post by: shmokes on August 31, 2005, 12:02:43 pm

I've never understood how the quick release was any faster than the port on the front of the Xbox.  In fact, I think it's much more difficult to manipulate.  It should be called the awkward release, or slow release.

Does it actually have a useful purpose?  Certainly not for extension cables.

Title: Re: XBox Remote: IR Receiver work with extension cable?
Post by: SOAPboy on August 31, 2005, 12:11:32 pm

Quote from: shmokes on August 31, 2005, 12:02:43 pm

manipulate.

Title: Re: XBox Remote: IR Receiver work with extension cable?
Post by: shmokes on August 31, 2005, 12:24:40 pm

Does it?  That's useful then.  My memory puts the quick release as tighter than the USB ports on the front of the console, but I suspect I'm just making that up in my head.

Title: Re: XBox Remote: IR Receiver work with extension cable?
Post by: versapak on August 31, 2005, 01:52:54 pm

Quote from: shmokes on August 31, 2005, 12:24:40 pm

Does it? That's useful then. My memory puts the quick release as tighter than the USB ports on the front of the console, but I suspect I'm just making that up in my head.

Try to unplug the controller while at the same time pulling it to any one side.

The way the quick release works, is that it is on the actual cable, so regardless of what direction the cable is pulled, the release is going the same way. It offers much less resistance, and unplugs there, thus saving an expensive trip to the floor for the entire console.

Title: Re: XBox Remote: IR Receiver work with extension cable?
Post by: shmokes on August 31, 2005, 02:51:13 pm

I'll probably just take your word for it.

Title: Re: XBox Remote: IR Receiver work with extension cable?
Post by: SpamMe on August 31, 2005, 03:37:18 pm

Quote from: versapak on August 31, 2005, 08:08:50 am

Hip-gear makes (Made? Only place I ever saw em was at CompUSA, and they don't have em any more) an extension cable that had both a quick release and standard connection on it.

Ahh, thanks, I found a few on the entor-web.

Title: Re: XBox Remote: IR Receiver work with extension cable?
Post by: Pik4chu on September 08, 2005, 01:03:31 am

Quote from: shmokes on August 31, 2005, 02:51:13 pm

I'll probably just take your word for it.

It does, I have experience with it. When little "house guests" go running around the room.  Rather than snagging a controller and smashing the console into the chair leg and reseting a rather riveting game of something. Just lets go easily.  Rather clever of MS if I do say so myself.