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Old 03-30-08, 05:20 PM
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not enough A/V ports on my TV

I have a 7-yr old flat screen TV that only has 3 A/V ports. Problem is that I need to hook up a DVD player, XBox, Gamecube, and Wii and it gets tedious to reach in the back of the TV and unplug one each time my son wants to use a different one and then you have to figure out which A/V channel is which...

Aside from getting an A/V switch box, is there any other solution to not enough A/V ports on my TV? Radio Shack had the A/V switch box but it was big and bulky.

Don't they make a Y-Adapter of some kind to convert one set of A/V ports into two sets? That would be too easy, huh?

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A surround sound receiver would do it. They offer video switching.
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Originally Posted by guppie
I have a 7-yr old flat screen TV that only has 3 A/V ports. Problem is that I need to hook up a DVD player, XBox, Gamecube, and Wii and it gets tedious to reach in the back of the TV and unplug one each time my son wants to use a different one and then you have to figure out which A/V channel is which...

Aside from getting an A/V switch box, is there any other solution to not enough A/V ports on my TV? Radio Shack had the A/V switch box but it was big and bulky.

Don't they make a Y-Adapter of some kind to convert one set of A/V ports into two sets? That would be too easy, huh?

Thanks
Get the switch box... it will be very useful. I've run a few of these. You can get them for S-video, Component, etc.

Here's one for Component:

http://www.monoprice.com/products/pr...#specification

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