Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Consoles => Topic started by: planetjay on October 15, 2003, 04:27:19 am
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So I'm at Radio Shack yesterday. I'm looking at all the parts they are getting rid of to make room for more $25 Cell Phone Faceplates. And there, on the discount shelf, were TV - Video Game / Computer Signal Switches. You know. The replacement for the "Atari Switchbox" on the back of your TV. And the best part? $.47US!!! Yes, 47 cents. I bought all 3. It looks like RS part no. 15-1269c is being discontinued. I'll be hitting several more Radio Shacks tomorrow.
Get 'em while they're hot!
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Pj your just too old school man. Now days you can get a digital switcher that supports many console and automatically "flips" the switch on the switchbox to whatever video signal is active.
Now they aren't 47 cents, but I'd rather pay a little more and not have to reash around to the back of my tv.
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But if you decide to sell off a console or 2 later, they'll be well worth the 47 cents... ;)
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Howard,
I don't think all consoles will work with automatic switches, especially old ones.
I know that Odyssey2 does not work with the auto switches that came with Sega and Nintendo.
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Pj your just too old school man.
Blah. That is an oxymoron, my friend.
I'll look the next time I'm at Radio Shack.
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I can think of at least two Radio Shacks between work & home...
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sweet thanks for the tip
ill go a searching :)