Anyone know of a good RF compatible system selector?

[NYLatenite]

Just wondering if anyone can point me in the direction of a good system selector that will allow the old style RF connectors to be used. I'd like to get all my old systems running without having to always switch them out.

Any information would be greatly appreciated - thanks again!

[Bighab]

Why don't you "daisy chain" all your RF conectors?

[Ikari Warrior]

The Gamestops near me carry one in large plain white boxes with red letters and no pictures, it's called generic like the "Universal System Slector" or something similar. It was $7.99, I bought one hoping it would have s-video but it was RF only. It was a nice unit, very high quality with 6-8 inputs. I ended up returning it though as it wasn't what I was looking for. I still see them sometimes at my local Gamestop. The employees didn't even know what they were.

[Ze_ro]

If you can't find anything else, you should be able to use a normal A/V system selector... instead of using all three RCA jacks, just make sure to plug everything into the same color, and it should work just about the same way.

--Zero

[NYLatenite]

Thanks for the advice, all. I tried checking around for that Gamestop swticher with no luck, and it seems the one listed everywhere has been discontinued. On the upside, it never even dawned on me to try daisy chaining them, will have to give that a shot!

Thanks again!

[Ze_ro]

If you do decide to just daisy chain them, you might want to be careful about how you do it. If you use the TV in question for actually watching TV, then having 5 RF switches in there will surely cause some noticable interference in the TV signal.

What I did was find a simple coax switch... it has two inputs, so you can put the TV line on one of the inputs, hook all the RF switches to the other one, and then hook the output straight into the TV... then when you want to watch TV, you can flip this switch and watch TV with much less signal attenuation. You should be able to find one of these switches for a few dollars at any electronics store.

When you do the daisy chaining, you might want to pay attention to what order things are connected in... The more switches a signal has to go through, the more it degrades... so whatever system you want to have the best picture, you might want to connect "closer" to the TV, and other systems where you're not as concerned can be connected at the end of the chain. For example, I have a SNES, Master System, NES, and Atari 2600 connected in that order... since the Atari 2600 has a lower resolution, I'm less concerned if the image degrades a little.

My RF switches are rather low quality though, so if you have better ones, the signal quality might not be as noticable.

--Zero