Looking for some clever Ideas.

[kaustik]

I'd like to know how everyone is connecting your multiple systems to your television sets. My current method is turning into a nightmare. I am chaining game selectors one right after the other and it is starting to get a little difficult figuring out what buttons to hit to turn on what system. There has got to be a better way. I'm not looking for anything overkill like the new one with ethernet and optical. Just... something simple and not filled with garbage I will never use.

Additional question. Is there an easy was to convert coax to RCA? I now have 3 consoles that have no other option besides coax and would love to use RCA.

Thanks for reading.

[Anexanhume]

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=46514


edit: Yeah, I had it the other way around, but you need to visit the link above because it talks about a system selector.

[kaustik]

An RF modulator takes RCA to RF. I am looking for the other way around or am I missing something in your link.

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

Try this (http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/about/tips.htm). I've still got a couple of daisy-chained RF selectors, but it works a treat for my small herd of older systems.

[kaustik]

Thanks. Called Radio Shack and they do indeed carry ABC selectors for coax. That will solve some of the interference problems I was having with daisy chaining them.

It is hard to belive that there isn't an all in one solution. I already have to have an instruction manual for my wife. "Press slector 4 on the first box, 4 on the second box and 2 on the third box if you want to use the DVD player" etc... etc.

Makes things even more difficult that my television requires you to go to the menu to choose if you are using standard or S-Video. Just hoping that someone had bought/built something I haven't thought of.

Didn't think of the ABC slector so I thank you again.

[SegaAges]

i use the inputs from my vcr for everything cd-based on up and also my n64. anything older goes coax style on my other tv.

i use the vcr/knobs on the dresser way to do it. it may be ghetto, but it works just fine for me

check my room of doom pics to see. you don't need expensive connectors, you just need a cheap dresser and a vcr

[Dahne]

I like my daisy chain of RF switches.

Of course, nobody who goes back there ever comes out alive, but whatever.

[izret101]

I only have NES SNES and Genesis that use RF... well SNES too... and PS & N64 sometimes .... i have done it with GCN and PS2 aswell...
I even used a converter to play Colecovision in RF.

What is my problem?
The only home systems i own that have not used RF is Xbox and DC.

[XxMe2NiKxX]

Five consecutive rf switches with a game/tv selector at the end for my master system capped off with cable.

[vulcanjedi]

Hmmm,

I have a composite to VGA switchbox on my monitor that lets me switch between 4 systems and my computer. I have a TV tuner card in the computer to display the pre-composite systems. And my dreamcast has a VGA box so I have a standard VGA switch.

I can stream anything I am playing out as a webcam broadcast so I advertize my webpage :)

Toodles
VJ