David Judah
Screenwriter
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I find that I don't use PIP or POP much because I use my home theater setup when watching regular TV and I have a problem with the audio when switching between PIP's. Anyone have a good setup that works?I do the following:
Many of my devices have multiple analog outs. For those, it's easy-- I run one set of wires to my A/V receiver, and one set to the TV. For the ones that don't have that flexibility, I've bought myself a few 1:4 S-Video Distribution Amps from Rat$hack that let me split the signal as many ways as I've (yet) needed it.
What I've actually ended up with is every device runs to the (both audio and video) and every device runs to the A/V receiver. This alleviates SO problems immensely-- we can always
1) Listen to the sound out of the TV
2) Mute the TV, sound comes out the TV into the receiver
3) Switch the TV to the receiver's input and use the receiver for all A/V switching
4) Swith the TV and the receiver separately, for best quality sound and picture. (what I do)
The first 3 choice are compromises, but they alleviate the "how do I make this darn thing work?" issues and they allow me to use PIP to its utmost.
Of course, now that I have TiVo, PIP is pretty much unnecessary....
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