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Hello,
Would REALLY appreciate any advice on the below... Starting to tear my hair out, and I can't afford to lose any more.
We have just bought a projector (not received yet) but will still want to use the original TV.
All the items we want to use are currently connected to the TV via a manual SCART switch (would have gone automatic but the signal 'enhancers' on these devices seem to go wild with Gamecube picures where there is a lot of white on the screen: that's another story, 'though...).
These items are:
- UK Freeview,
- DVD player,
- Gamecube.
We might occasionally connect up a Dreamcast (retro gaming - yay!). Anyway, they're all RGB SCART, they all go through a manual switch to the TV's one and only (gah!) RGB scart. All works brilliantly, picture is mint from all sources.
Now, is there any way to just 'point' this lot at the projector? ie: would it be possible to add another switch which directs the currently-selected RGB SCART item (eg: Cube, Freeview) output to the projector instead of the TV?
I understand that a SCART RGB / Component video converter will be necessary. However, I really want to know:
(a) whether there is a '1 input, 2 output' SCART switch on the go.
(b) if this is the right route to go down. Seems a bit like overkill to need 2 switchers and a convertor. (Maybe this is a standard requirement for Home Cinema, I dunno, but I've looked real hard and not found anything).
Is there a better way to go? Because another issue is that we'll have to be looking at some different audio output for all but the DVD player to be used with the projector (the current sound system only provides output (5.1) for the DVD player). Would it be better to put the cash to be spent on hifi output towards a better home cinema system which has some kind of SCART RGB INput capability and just outputs on a single DVI cable (a single cable - bliss!!!). Or is this just a pipe dream? Does such a system exist?
Any advice gratefully received: I need to know how big a channel to be chiselling into my walls...
Many thanks in advance....
ps: projector accepts DVI, component video, s-video and composite.
[Apologies for any breaches of etiquette]
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