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[mlmadmax]

I have the system selector pro hooked up to my HDTV and It looks fine, me and a buddy of mine bypassed the switcher box and hooked it up direct and there was no difference in quality in HD signals but analog got a little grainier.

One thing about most boxes with Ethernet built in is that when you select a different input it switches the Ethernet as well; it looks like this unit has a separate always on Ethernet hub so you can watch TV on one input and download on another and that is pretty cool.

I hope the picture quaility looks good though, we shall see

[sicknasty413]

QUOTE(DJTucan @ Aug 24 2006, 01:16 PM)

P.S. I saw something like this for sale at Game Stop for about 100 bucks and it has an LCD and auto switch for all your High Def pluging.

hmm, i just searched their website.. couldnt find anything.. except for some 20 dollar composite one.. hmm

[thax]

QUOTE(grim_d @ Aug 24 2006, 04:50 PM)

eh joytech ARE a major manufacturer. and this has 5 component inputs does it not? I just got the joytech av control centre 2, it suited my needs better and its an awesome peice of kit as i assume this will be.

I am not trying to belittle what joytech has done here; I am talking about the traditional amp/receivers made by Denon, Sony, Harman Kardon not being able to keep up with devices like this. The only problem with the JoyTech unit is that it doesn't have a built in amp, so there is nothing to drive your sound system. This means that you need to pass that work off onto an amp anyway, which if it had the correct inputs would negate the need for such a device.

[booga13]

I don't know about this, this seems like it would be good for teh avid Video gamer, but what about the rest of us? What about the Price? The following is valid IF this sucker costs more than $75.

It says a hub, do they mean a hub or a switch? If its a hub, Strike 1.

A lack of Auto Sensing and a few Coax inputs that would be available. Strike 2.

While it is cool that they seem to be making a "dedicated" 360 port, what about others who want the rest of the ports for other applications? Such as DVI for a mythtv box? Perhaps HDMI? (HDMI could be bad for this though =p ). Strike 3.

I'm Out!

For the person that mentioned a $7,000 Dennon setup that would be needed for a true setup. I agree that $7,000 isn't an acceptable price range for a AV switch, however, if people have enough money to get the HDTV and the 360, AND have more than one to two devices that would require a switch let alone digital audio outputs, $75 isn't too bad of a deal. I HAVE seen HDMI switches out their, in fact thats my major next buy ($83 shipped for a 4 port HDMI switch with equalizer).

Once again I DON'T claim to know the price, I am just saying that I have seen  real world solutions that are for $75.

On a PRO Note though. Its pretty dang cool that they have the LCD panel switch orientation is the unit is horizontal or vertical    Also that it looks like a 360, now thats just down right awesome. I would pass though IMO.

[bdedi]

I have the cheap $20 unit from EB Games. Works fine because all I am switching is S-Video. Best my TV can handle for now. It is 6 years old and I haven't made the jump yet.

I also have the same problem as mentioned above about my Denon receiver only having 2 Digital Audio inputs. One is for my DVD system and the other currently is setup to take S-Video and Digital Audio from the XBOX360 and pump it straight to the TV.

If the box did up/down sampling it would be great, but doing that kind of stuff costs big bucks. The $20 box requires that you use the lowest common denominator for a single connection on the TV, hence all my stuff, 360, PS2 and PC are running S-Video. I used to have a Gamecube but that got relagated down to the basement where the kids have sleep-overs.

I will stick with what I have for now. It works.

[drleephd]

okay so its on sale at here for £77.97 or nearly $150USD


I don't get it. I'm too broke to own a 360 but still run a proper home theater system and my component switching is integrated in my amp and have an ethernet SWITCH in my stack anyways for my xbox1, and replayTV. but if I didn't they're easy to come by.

for around $150 that this thing costs wouldn't it make sense to squeese out the extra $50 to get an amp with integrated HD switching?



The Yamaha HTR-5930SL sells for $199 from best buy, which for what it does is pretty cheap. It's a few steps under anything I'd actually buy for myself (I own the 5950 and it's S_I_C_K!) but this still has component switching and would look alot better sitting next to a 360 than that fugly thing.

Am I missing something? what does this do that one of the cheapest yet still acceptable quality surround sound receivers out there doesnt?
maybe if you bought a $1000+ amp a long time ago that lacks component switching but I'm really lost as to what this should be used for.

[thax]

That is a nice receiver, but once again it only has 3 component inputs. The nice thing about the joytech is the number of component inputs.

I have a DVD player, HD Sat TV Receiver, Xbox 360. This uses up 3 inputs, now how do I hook up a MVIX or original xbox using component?

Newer receivers should all have 5 component inputs, but ideally 6 inputs just to be safe. The receivers typically have this many composite inputs but who the hell uses composite these days when buying a brand new receiver?

[fahrenheit]

I don't think that is a very realistic RRP for that Joytech unit. Its for preorder and I'd say that the company is just having a blind guess. I wouldn't imagine this to be over $80US.

[drleephd]

I hope it's only $80.

Remember these?


We just need to see hi def versions for xbx, x360 etc and we're all solved, unless people want to play all those systems at the same time.


Bah! For $150 forget it but not terrible for $80.
it still overcomplicates most any system it's hooked to, and I'm a firm believer that video switching should be done by the AV receiver. That's one of it's main jobs and if it doesn't cut it then it's time to upgrade.

I agree though, they should make more component inputs and stop putting composite altogether. I would never by a piece of home theater equipment that only outputs composite (really old game systems are excused).

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