how to hook up an xbox360 to a tv

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i was wondering do i need to buy a special connector for an xbox360 if i have a television that doesn't have the 2 or 3 colored plugs that older consoles sent standard

Wait, are you saying you don't have a composite in? If that is the case, then, like older consoles, you'll need an r/f adapter.

Unless you have a TV with other inputs (yet inexplicably lacks composite). What kind of TV are you using?

Well, you should describe in detail what your setup is, but I know my 360 Elite's video cable contained both composite and component cables. The composite however was just the white and red audio connectors, and the yellow video jack is on the same cable as the component (green & blue cables). What you have to do is just take the white and red cables and the yellow jack from the component cables and plug them into their prospective inputs. If you don't have this setup I'm pretty sure Microsoft sells RF adapters.

its a large toshiba mid 90s its massive and i cant really reach the back of it but i dont remember it really having the colored imputs or if it didnt they didnt work the last time i tried it

You really should check. Coaxial is going to be your only option if you don't at least have composite, and I can tell you from experience that coaxial looks like s**t.

It only takes a little a bit of time to think about it:

Coaxial shoves all sound and all video into the same cable, extreme bottleneck for both sound and video quality.

Composite(yellow cable) separates these signals and sound is split into a cable for each channel(left(white) & right(red)) which gives way more bandwidth for both sound and video and therefore improves the quality of both.

S-video splits two channels of video into their own wire, which is located within the same cable. One channel is either light or color I think, and the other is everything else. More bandwidth for both of those means even better quality.

Component splits 3 parts of the video signal, one for color I think, one for light I think, and one for everything else I think. Which obviously gives even better quality.

good news everyone i found an RF modulator it allows me to us composite with my coaxial TV its just a little box that has the three colored plugs on it and it works great about 20 bucks from radio shack so i guess i don't have to worry about quality loss