Help needed with gaming set up

[Frankywise911]

Hi,

I have a question concerning my gaming set-up. On my television I only have 2 component\composite connection. I currently use one of those with a composite switch to allow 4 of my systems to be connected to the TV and the other one is used for my Xbox 360 (it's an older model without an HDMI port).

I made the acquisition today of a sweet Turbo Grafx 16 and this puts me in a unfortunate situation, I have no where to plug it!

Is there a switch box on the market that would allow me to input Composite and Component and output a signal of equal quality than what was input? I already tried with one component switch box (Dynex™ - Component Video Switch) but when I input composite the output image doesn't have colour, it's in grey scale.

Is there anyone out there using a switch box for composite and component at the same time?

Tanks for any input on my problem

[wiggyx]

check ebay for "Extron Crosspoint". Lots of different configurations, most can handle pretty much any analogue signal you can throw at em.

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[Greg2600]

Answer is basically no. The problem is that your TV likely uses one of the component jacks to test whether component or composite video is connected. So even if you are not feeding a component source, it cannot switch to composite mode. My TV acts this way. I don't know how many component-systems you have, but you're best bet is to use a component switch box for one of the connections, and a composite for the other, keeping them separate. If you're out of composite jacks on the box, I guess get a bigger box! The old Gamestop/Pelican boxes took 5 inputs. Unless you feel like unplugging the component wires everytime.

[BlastProcessing402]

Basically you have to have a component switchbox on one and a composite switchbox on the other, and if you're out of room on one, you'll have to just deal with disconnecting reconnecting or daisy chain in a second switchbox and hope it doesn't degrade things too much.

[CRTGAMER]

Basically you have to have a component switchbox on one and a composite switchbox on the other, and if you're out of room on one, you'll have to just deal with disconnecting reconnecting or daisy chain in a second switchbox and hope it doesn't degrade things too much.

THIS. Since there are two Composite/Component combo inputs on the TV, this is easy to keep the Composite and Component Switchboxes on their own separate input. Get one box of each with enough inputs or just daisy chain an additional box. A shame the newer TVs do not have SVideo for older consoles.

[wiggyx]

The switch I posted has multiple outputs (and can handle ANY analogue input), so you don't need to stack up a series of crappy Pelican, Interact, etc. products.

[Trebuken]

The switch I posted has multiple outputs (and can handle ANY analogue input), so you don't need to stack up a series of crappy Pelican, Interact, etc. products.

The BNC connectors makes look Extrons very intimidating. They appear to be the perfect solution for the many system setup. Extrons website lists divides these into Composite, S-Video, Component categories -- you seem to suggest that the one you pictured can handle all of those connections, presumably with the proper BNC adapters. Is that correct? Have you used such a setup? These switchers can be fairly expensive.

Thanks for any more info, experiences you have had with these.

[Frankywise911]

I checked on Amazon and the Extron Crosspoint is quite expensive and doesn't really look like it's plug and play.

I found a 8 input 1 output composite switch on amazon and I'll probably go for that. The video quality might be bad, but when playing an NES the video quality is bad all the time.

Thanks

[Gameguy]

You could get separate TVs for each video game console you have. Might not be practical with space but it's another possible option. CRTs are given away for free now.

[-^Cro§Bow^-]

Or look for a JVC SX-900 on the bay. I have the 700 which sadly cannot do Component. But I believe the sx-777 and sx-900 can. I use my 700 for all my composite and s-video modded consoles. I then feed from the monitor of that into a composite / s-video to HDMI upscaler for use on my LED TV.