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Re: todays challenge xbox into hotel tv


  • Subject: Re: todays challenge xbox into hotel tv
  • From: Nick Austin <nick1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 21:13:41 +0100

At 19:35 09/08/04 +0000, big_red_frog wrote:
> Hi all
> I am sitting in a hotel room stuck in birmingham on a contract
> I have an xbox with me and I am posting this through a blackberry
> I bought a scart cable with me but the tv has no way to switch to the
scart from the front panel
> The remote control talks only to a box on the wall which then talks to
the tv through the scart
> if I unplug it the tv drops back to tuner
> So what pins on my scart should I short to force the tv to switch to
my
scart

You need to apply between 9.5 and 12 volts to pin 8 (using pin 14 as
ground).

I don't know if there is a convenient power out on the xbox but you could
just do a "Heath Robinson" with a PP3 battery.

Nick.




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