{"id":9496,"date":"2007-03-15T17:57:05","date_gmt":"2007-03-15T17:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9496"},"modified":"2007-03-15T17:57:05","modified_gmt":"2007-03-15T17:57:05","slug":"how-to-build-an-av-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9496","title":{"rendered":"How-To: Build an A\/V Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/avswitcher.jpg\">Ben Heckendorn has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2007\/03\/13\/how-to-make-a-solid-state-a-v-switcher\/\" target=\"new\">how-to<\/a> on Engadget today about building your own Audio\/Video Switch for your home media center. As you&#8217;re likely painfully aware, many of today&#8217;s TVs don&#8217;t have nearly enough A\/V inputs for all of the devices we have (game systems, DVRs, DVD, VHS, etc.). A\/V switches allow you to use one TV input to connect multiple devices that you can switch between. You won&#8217;t really save much money by DIY, and it involves soldering onto IC pins (although you could get 20-pin sockets and solder onto those and then plug in your Bus chips). Besides this being a fun project to work your <a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/modules.php?op=modload&#038;name=Reviews&#038;file=index&#038;req=showcontent&#038;id=68\">newfound soldering chops<\/a>, where this get truly useful is in customizing the Switch by adding component and S-video inputs\/outputs (Ben&#8217;s switch only does composite, but you can add component and S-Video I\/O too). Ben says in the Comments that you could also add infrared control and make it a remote control A\/V Switch. *Now* we&#8217;re getting somewhere. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit\" target=\"new\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/badges\/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif\" width=\"91\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Digg!\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Heckendorn has a how-to on Engadget today about building your own Audio\/Video Switch for your home media center. As you&#8217;re likely painfully aware, many of today&#8217;s TVs don&#8217;t have nearly enough A\/V inputs for all of the devices we have (game systems, DVRs, DVD, VHS, etc.). A\/V switches allow you to use one TV &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9496\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How-To: Build an A\/V Switch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}