s-video question

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Does anyone make a s-video splitter? I use the s-vid out from my comp to watch movies and stuff on my 27" tv. but I have my dvd player using the s-vid input on the tv. so everytime I want to watch something from my computer I have to slide the tv around and try to plug the s-vid cable in the dark..(that can be tricky lining up the pins... I've destroyed 2 cables now)
Anyway, is there another solution? I guess i could make one... I dunno.. mabee I'm not thinking outside the box... lol help me please

 

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anyone...??

 

[iamjuliespiano]

what about an s-video switch?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000031WCH/102-3948602-7648132?v=glance&n=172282

fancier ones can probably autodetect when the dvd player is turned on

 

[NulloModo]

I've never seen a splitter, but you can buy an S-video switch for cheap, and any halfway decent receiver will do it if you ever put in a surround sound system.

 

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I have a decent reciever with several s-vid inputs and an output to go to the tv, but I noticed when I pluged the dvd player to the reciever, I'd get a little static noise/interfearance on the tv., so I just bypassed the video on the reciever and connected video to the tv, and the picture quality improved drasticly (I'm just using the audio imputs on the reciever at the moment). I might give it another try .

THanks

 

[SJetski71]

^^^

If you can't straighten out the interference, here's an inexpensive passive video switcher with remote control.

BTW, you can substitute the red white and yellow connectors to instead switch component Pb-Pr-Y video signals. Here's how i found out that dirty little secret.

 

[Negative Decibel]

Thanks guys..