Re: Scart switcher recomendations?

["Tim Hawes" <timsyahoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martyn,

How about an AV receiver instead?
This is where I will end up the tv is going on the wall tomorrow(!)
and all boxes are being hidden away.

The advantage of a receiver is that many of them will upscale to HDMI
*and* can do the surround sound duties for DVDs etc.

My shortlist has the Denon 1908 & 1909 on it (=A3250-=A3450), and
there's
also a highly-rated Onkyo for similar money. Do check with the cheaper
receivers that they will upscale to HDMI as not all will :-(    (a
couple of cheaper Sony ones don't, for e.g.)

HTH,

Tim.

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Martyn Wendon <martynwendon@xxxxxxx>
w=
rote:
> I've taken the plunge and decided to get a lovely big plasma screen in
th=
e
> living room.
>
> It's going to be wall mounted so to minimise cable clutter I want to
send=
as
> few cables as possible to it.  Current thinking is power and one of
each =
of
> rf coax, vga, scart and hdmi.
>
> That means that I'll then need to switch sources in the av cabinet, so
my
> question is does anybody have any recomendations for decent scart
switche=
rs?
> Infra red / RS232 control would be a bonus as would optical switching
- R=
GB
> and pin 8 switching on all inputs a must.
>
> I've got the following kit to switch:
>
> Virgin Cable box
> Sky box
> DVD player
> xBox
> xBox 360
> VCR
> Dream Box
>
>
> So an 8-way switcher would be needed I think.
>
>
>
> Thanks for any pointers!
>
>
> Martyn

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