Need Component Switch Recommendations...

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Aphelion (sonship@twcny.rr.com) wrote in alt.tv.tech.hdtv:
> Let's have 'em...

Do you need remote control capability? If so, then the Video Storm
unit is about the best price/performance:

http://www.video-storm.com/proddetail.asp?prod=CSM42

I have a Zektor HDS4, but can't recommend it due to bugs in their coaxial
digital implementation (it just doesn't recognize some devices), although
the video portion is great.

--
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| animal for some silly superstition?"
| "I didn't personally slaughter the rabbit. I shot
| a giant panda out of a tree, and he fell on it."
| -- "Cybill"

Archived from groups: alt.tv.tech.hdtv (More info?)

In article <MywKe.7746$EX.5058@twister.nyroc.rr.com>,
sonship@twcny.rr.com says...
> Particularly interested in switches that you've had for a while and show no
> loss in quality. No signal degradation is of course is crucial.
>


I bought a Digital Optical unit on eBay several months ago -- like
current item #5796373739. It's not bad especially considering the price.
I see no particular problems or signal degradation.

One word of caution though: the remote control codes are exactly the
same as a similar device for switching A/V inputs. If you have both it
takes a little planning to get everything to play nice together.

On the inside are a bunch of CMOS 4052 switches. Paralleled hex buffers
are used to drive the outputs. A little PIC microcontroller runs the
works. Pretty clever design. The board inside looks like it was wired by
a third grade class somewhere near an inscrutable Nike sweatshop but it
works.