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[SickBoy]

So I'm planning on making a console switch, moving my consoles to our slightly-better TV and using an AV selector for the console/DVD player signals. The catch is I need to get S-video cables for my Xbox and PS2 (and possibly the gamecube).

Any recommendations? Will anything do?

I haven't seen much in the way of cables in the stores I've been to... although I have seen this at EB... is it worth getting?

http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/product/225046.asp

I'd be getting one per console, but it looks like this might be the easiest cable to find anyhow.

 

[MarkRyan]

The cable you linked to is one I just bought a week ago. It works nicely with my GameCube, and really looks just about as good as my compontent cables (which I have for Xbox and PS2). If you really wanted to, you could just buy one of those cables. If your systems are all close enough, you could connect them to the same cable and, as long as you only power on one system at a time, you'd be fine

 

[Teddman]

Those kind of multi-console cables rule, Pelican also makes them. I have two sets of their Dreamcast/PS2/GameCube s-video cables and the work great. Don't try to use the cables themselves in lieu of a switchbox--they won't work properly if more than one lead is plugged in (at least the Pelicans are like that). For the Pelicans, I believe even with the power off on the other two consoles, it screwed with the picture for the connected system.

Final piece of advice, don't shell out for anything Monster brand.

 

[ArcadeStickMonk]

Does the slightly better TV support component?