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| Hope some of you gurus can help me out here. i have a small bar, and in this bar I have 10 TV's and a sat receiver for games. I would like to hook up a DVD player to this so that I can play DVD's that are created in house to inform customers. Since these are self produced DVD-R's, there will be no software probs on the discs themselves that prevent play. I'm looking for a way so that I can set a TV to either the DVD feed, or to the sat feed. So I can have half the TV's on one and the other half on the other. Now I asked my Sat provider tech about this and he just stared at me and blinked alot. So in your suggestions, don't consider what the equipment I currently have. I may be changing companies for other reasons too. So if you were gonna do it, how would you do it? Let me rephrase, if you were gonna do it as cheaply as you can, how would you do it? Thanks! |
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Derek | You are going to need some type of security camera matrix encoder like this http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?&User_ID=14088186&St=6126&St2=-55154136&St3=54986648&DS_ID=3&Product_ID=15203&DID=7 one. This one is a switch only but I'm sure you've seen security displays that have 4 cameras on the display at the same time. Those encoders are not cheap. $500. Try a security company. You may want to look into a TV with PoP (Picture Outside of Picture). Sony started this a few years back. Basicly it shows two 4:3 pictures, slightly distorted next to each other on a wide screen TV. Panasonics 47" Big screen does it and it's around $1000. I'm sure someone makes a smaller direct-view set that does it as well. Hope this helps. |
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| Derek, thanks for posting. Hmm. I don't think I was clear. I'm not looking to show both the DVD feed and Sat Feed on a TV at the same time. I meant to say that I'm looking for a way that some of the TV's can play the DVD feed, while other TV's are showing the SAT Feed. |
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Derek | Oh. My bad. You could be lazy and buy one of these http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=CTLG&category%5Fname=CTLG%5F003%5F010%5F009%5F000&product%5Fid=15%2D2525 and set the Satelite to RF channel 4 and the DVD through the RF modulator on RF channel 3. To choose a source, just change channels. This http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?&User_ID=14088186&St=6126&St2=-55154136&St3=54986648&DS_ID=3&Product_ID=118483&DID=7. This will allow you to tune to 4 seperate channels. If you want to stick with higher quality S-VHS, a dual-zone receiver or a matrix switcher will do. See http://www.partsexpress.com/webpage.cfm?webpage_id=3&SO=2&DID=7&CATID=39&ObjectGroup_ID=464. There are larger matrix switchers. See http://www.extron.com/product/prodtype03.asp. I hope THIS helps. |
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installguy | channel 3 is too close to channel 4, that will not work. you could use channel 3 straight out of the sat receiver and use a moulator for the dvd. the modulator can be set on any channel. if you want to mix in cable tv you can get a 2 input modulator and set the channel above the highest cable channel. space them out at lease three channels. (sat on ch60+ dvd on ch 63).keep in mind the channels you pick cannot have anything on them. i use "channel vision" single channel sell for $75 and dual is about $150. these modulators have amps built in so they can drive multiple tvs. but the ch3 output on the dish will need a line amp to drive 10 tv's. 25db radio shack amp is fine. RF distribution "is may bag baby" too bad analog is going away. or is it? |