On Sun, January 14, 2007 12:07 pm, Ralph Shumaker wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: >> Yes but see above. Are there S-Video switches/splitters? Flexibility is more important to me than marginal improvements in signal to the TV. > > Yes, Walmart has a $20 4way splitter that does exactly that. It has no coax at all. It has 4 inputs and 1 output. Here's the breakdown of each: > > Input 1 S-Vid, CompVid, Left, & Right > Input 2 S-Vid, CompVid, Left, Right, Y, Pb, & Pr > Input 3 S-Vid, CompVid, Left, Right, Y, Pb, & Pr > Input 4 S-Vid, CompVid, Left, Right, Y, Pb, & Pr > Output S-Vid, CompVid, Left, Right, Y, Pb, & Pr >
Now that sounds REALLY great! And at twenty bucks, I should have one. But what is missing is something to take the raw Cox coax input and make it into an accepted input for the magic box. Otherwise, I can't record one whie watching another. Still, it greatly simplifies the wiring and brings the switching to one accessible location. And I can bring in the DVD player, so I can watch a DVD while burning one. (The DVD player also automagically reads all codecs, so I can do an analog capture of my old video CD/DVDs.) Now, is there a S-Video switch with one in and two out? Then life would be perfect, because I could send al the inputs either to the TV or to the capture card, allowing me to capture those famiy video tapes before they crumble into dust. Without, of course, wire switching, whicis a bitch. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
