[mythtv-users] xbox / htpc switch?

[Brian Bartlow]

Kane Tse wrote:

>Sorry for coming late to the conversation... But your "component-to-VGA"
>adapter has caught my interest.  Can you tell me more about this device
>and how much it cost?
>
>I've been looking at either the ViewSonic NextVision N6 or the AverMedia
>TVBox 9 as a means of switching an projector between an XBox and a PC
>for display on a projector... But my projector has 2 VGA inputs so I'd
>love to find a reasonably priced component-to-VGA adapter that doesn't
>cost the $200 Canadian for the ViewSonic or AverMedia devices.
>
>I think both of those boxes come with IR remotes too; and they're
>designed to send a signal to the projector even with the PC off.
>  
>
Well maybe my projector is unusual but it's "computer 2" input is a vga 
connector, but it will accept either a normal vga signal or a component 
signal that has been sent over the vga cable.  I don't know how much the 
adapter costs but I'm sure it's cheap because the company I bought my 
projector through just "threw it in the box" for free.  So the adapter 
doesn't actually change the signal, it just routes the component signal 
over a vga cable.

So my projector automatically detects what type of signal it is getting 
on the "computer 2" input and displays it correctly.

Brian