DailyTech comes with pretty interesting information about HDMI connector on the Microsoft’s upcoming Xbox360 Elite console. The connector supports HDMI version 1.2 as opposed to the latest 1.3 pattern. When Elite is connected to an HDMI capable HDTV, it will automatically raise the visual resolution to 1080p from normal. You will not be able to set the resolution yourself since the Xbox360 depends highly on HDMI to perform the resolution matching.

Other details are enlisted below:

• Xbox 360 Elite supports HDMI 1.2 profile. For audio, you can select DD, DTS (at 1.5 Mbps), and WMA-Pro (Microsoft high fidelity multi-channel codec supported in some AVRs such as Pioneer). Since it is not based on 1.3, it will not support output of DD+ or TrueHD

• Elite’s HDMI connector will not output uncompressed multi-channel audio

• Xbox360 coupled with the HD DVD player will continue to output Dolby Digital, DTS, or WMA-Pro audio

• For true 7.1 channel audio support, a separate HD DVD player required

Via: dailytech