On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 07:11:45PM -0400, Olin Lathrop wrote:
> Couch Potato wrote:
> > My entertainment center is overrun with video sources: digital cable,
> > analog cable, satellite, DVD, and my homebuilt PVR. It's gotten to the
> > point where I literally cannot get everything to the screen without
> > switching cables to do it. Also I need some way for my PVR to select it's
> > video source to record.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Any suggestions? The fall TV season is upon me!
>
> Yeah, get a life or read a book.
>
> If it's really really essential to rapidly cycle between your favorite two
> soap operas, the shopping channel, Giraldo rerun of a shocking expose on
> sanitation workers taking home the merchandise, russian nyetwork presents
> Ivanova does Irkutsk (with subtitles although their hardly needed), and
> three live web cam shots of Coke machines, I would use the reed relay
> method.  It's cheap, simple, and reliable.  It's not elegant, but should get
> the job done without a lot of worry about opamp bandwidth and analog switch
> crosstalk.
>
> By the way, how did you come up with 36 reed relays?  You only need one for
> each video feed you may want as input.  Do you really have 36 video feeds to
> select from?

Each channel consist of a video signal and two audio subchannels. So 6 channels
x 2 output buses x 3 subchannels -> 36 relays.

BAJ

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