XBox Remote: IR Receiver work with extension cable?

[SpamMe]

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?

[JB]

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

[SOAPboy]

Should work 

[Adeptus]

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.

[versapak]

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 .

[shmokes]

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.

[SOAPboy]

manipulate.

[shmokes]

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.

[versapak]

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.

[shmokes]

I'll probably just take your word for it.

[SpamMe]

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.

[Pik4chu]

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.