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.
