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Tip by Rick Davis:
"Those of you who, like me, now have more set-top boxes than they have HD inputs on
the back of their TV might appreciate having the Audio Authority Model 954
component video and digital source switcher.
This unit has 4 component video/and either Toslink or coaxial audio inputs
and one component video/coaxial audio output. I ordered mine directly from Audio Authority
www.audioauthority.com
for $246 including shipping. This price included the source switching module, one power
pack, and 4 2.5-meter switches.
The only minor annoyance associated with adapting this unit to the home
theater environment is the requirement for gerryrigging a makeshift switchbox to house the
push-button switches which are shipped with the unit. I went to a local electronics store
and purchased a 2" by 5" plastic box for about $7, drilled 4 holes in the top of
it, and ran the switches through the holes on the top of the box and ended up with a
functional (if not very elegant) switchbox.
I then mounted the source switcher module on the wall behind my home
theater setup and attached the leads from the switchbox to the module. I ended up with a
very nice solution for feeding multiple component video/digital audio output sources into
one input.
I’ve presently got a Unity Motion HDTV receiver, a Toshiba 5109 DVD
player, and soon (I hope) a General Instruments HDD200 HDTV decoder feeding into the HD1
input on my Toshiba TW56X81 HDTV set. So far the Audio Authority switcher has performed
flawlessly and I’ve noticed absolutely no signal deterioration as a result of feeding
the various sources through the switcher. While this is a product that was obviously
designed for the video showroom setting, it is quite easily adapted for the home theater
setting as well." Rick's site
has pictures of this switch.
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