Video Asylum

Posted by lwang (A) on November 11, 2003 at 20:57:13

In Reply to: Any risk to using a Y-connector for DVD & VCR video input to TV? posted by DWPC on November 11, 2003 at 10:48:08:

Any one source would be feeding both the input of the TV and output of the other source. You would, at the least, encounter signal degration due to impedence change.

Turning one unit off does not mean that component's output is disconnected. It could even cause incoming signal to flow to ground.