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In Reply to: Re: Connecting up that Mess of Equipment posted by Roland on March 27, 2001 at 17:46:37:
The receiver doesn't have enough inputs & outputs. It was a really
cheap receiver. $250 at Costco. It has plenty of analog stereo inputs and outputs, but only two AC3 inputs, one optical, the other
coax.Given that I want to
* In all cases, use the highest quality signal available
( in other words, use AC3 if it's available, use svideo if that's
available )
* Be able to tape any video source with the VCR
( which has only stereo/composite in/out: I refuse to even consider
RF )
* Be able to watch something from one source while recording another...The problem seems to call for a "many-to-many" switch.
Follow Ups:
Sell the reciever then and buy a better one. A decent switching box will cost $150-300 if you spent $1000 on a reciever it would almost certainly have enough outputs. Besides your DVD what else do you have that has an AC3 output?Roland
That thought had occurred to me. But I haven't yet investigated just
how much switching higher-end receivers have. And this receiver is
perfectly adequate for my needs otherwise.As for AC3 sources, there's the DVD player, as you pointed out,
and the DSS receiver. There is also, believe it or not, another DVD
player that I didn't mention. This one is a DVD drive in a computer
downstairs. The reason I mention it now is that I use it to view Russian movie DVD's. Got tired of watching them on the computer screen, and obtained a 50-foot Svideo cable to hook it up to the big TV upstairs. So that's a third source of AC3 audio and Svideo.If there is a "many-to-many" switch that does svideo and AC3
and composite video and stereo audio for a couple hundred bucks, I'd
snap it up. But no such item seems to exist.
Would have to look at two boxes, one for the video signal, and one for the Digital signal. But why do you want to use the computer player downstairs to play DVD's as well if you already have a DVD player in your main room? Also I would be inclined to think that you might start to get problems running digital audio on what is probably a very long length of cable.I would however look carefully at another reciever/surround amp, should be able to get 8 or more video inputs for $1000 without any problem. Good luck!
Roland
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