AV amps are generally designed to
switch video
and audio and are by default a crossover product. Usually they switch
S-Video
or composite sources, some do also switch component sources too, so you can
set
the display to use one input (from the amp) to switch all your AV sources,
easily and all in one box.
Yes a distribution amp would probably
be
better, assuming that you are referring to a professional grade product,
but
very costly and, for the vast majority of people, neither a necessary
expense
nor mass of cables.
Just depends how much cash you have
and
how good you want the picture to be whether it’s worth the hassle,
personally I don’t see the benefit of a separate video processor from
the
audio one particularly since many of the combined AV amps these days are
very
good at what they do.
HTH
K.
-----Original
Message-----
From: Paul Helliwell
[mailto:g0kao@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 07 March 2002 19:34
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] AV Amps and
video
Having seen the various posts relating to the merits or
otherwise of how to connect video through what is essentially an Audio
device.
I have a Pioneer digital surround amp and seperate
Pioneer
DVD which are optically cabled together for Audio purposes and have notice
the
composite video connectors on the back, I carn't remember any other video
connectors.
Surely a video distribution amplifier would do the
job
better?
I have a spare Technics SA-EX310 AV Amplifier but no
manuals
got it cheap a few years ago, this also has video connections on and I
wondered
what for?
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