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[Nikashi]

Okay, I've got a Samsung SDTV with component in. (480i only).

I have two component devices (xbox and 360).

Since I am not doing any HD with it, could I use a normal switchbox with red/yellow/white to switch between them, or would that not work?

 

[golem]

should work.. ive done it before

 

[Burger]

Should be fine. If you get bad bleeding or signal noise, that would be the first sign that it's not working well.

Others would have you spend $499 on a military grade switch box, but for 480i stuff you should be fine.

 

[Ponn]

You mean Composite right? Why would you use component cables for something like that?

 

[Nikashi]

I could use just regular cables too, huh?

 

[Nikashi]

You mean Composite right? Why would you use component cables for something like that?

I do mean component (red/green/blue). Even at 480i it offers a sharper more defined image than even S-Video.

 

[Ponn]

I do mean component (red/green/blue). Even at 480i it offers a sharper more defined image than even S-Video.

Well yeah, but not if you are trying run it through a Composite swtich box. Are the Audio inputs/outputs on those things even able to accept a video signal? I'm honestly interested now, please try it out and report back on if it works or not.

 

[conker]

It should work
They're the SAME CABLES
If you do get bad video, you may want to invest in better cables or a better switch box.
But as far as the signal goes, it's the same cable.
Red(video)/Black, White, Yellow, Green, Blue, Red(video) all use the same type of cable.
It's just a metal wire (2) that completes a circuit. Nothing fancy.

Component cables aren't special.
Composite cables came about because we didn't want to use component cables.

OMG THREE cables for video? NO NO NO.

Let's just go ahead and fold R G B into chroma and luminosity.
That way, chroma tells us the ratio betwen the colors, and we can get how red, greeen, or blue an image is, yay.
Luminosity will tell us how bright the image is. Oh joy.
But we've still got two cables. Let's go ahead and do a little math, some very simple signal processing, and slap them together.

AH! We've got an image! It's...well, it's much crappier than what we'd have if we went with the logical R G B method, but, consumers will love us!
And then we can separate some of the signal out for a future cable, (s-video) and then restore it completely over several decades.


I'lls top now, but yeah. Should work fine. Unless there's some frequency / range limitations on the audio parts of your switch box. Shouldn't be.

 

[Fuzzy]

The only major problem with using a composite switch box to do component switching is that a composite switch box only allows 3 wire input and you need 5 for component (unless you don't want sound).