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Originally Posted by lumpkin666
These darn things never seem to have enough inputs.
Just in my living room, I have the following units that would be useful to view from remote locations:
Cable Box
FTA Satellite Receiver
Security Camera Console (x2)
Blu-Ray DVD Player (actually - ps3)
HD DVD Player (actually - xbox 360)
SD DVD Jukebox
Replay PVR
MS Media Center
VCR for OTA Analog
OTA Digital tuner
Now, I have tried those auto-sensing switches before, but a couple of my units do not completely power down, but instead show a black screen. The switches always stop on that screen. You would think that a system designed to remotely view "any" of your tv sources would be designed with the idea in mind that most geeks that would want something like this would also have more than 1 or 2 sources.
That said, this is a decent device, and probably serves a good segment of users. Until they have a "mega switch" solution at least bundled as part of the device though, I can't see how I'd make it work. (It'd also be nice if HDMI inputs were available). |
But everything you're describing only relates to
video devices---> slingbox----> network ----> network viewing, with also local viewing on a TV directly from the slingbox of the local devices.
However can I assume that :
Video devices--->slingbox...> network.....>slingbox....> TV will not work???
or
Network video from other sources----> slingbox---> TV will not work???
I'm guessing that these 2 things won't work, ie the slingbox won't decode network stuff and display it on the A/V outputs, ie the slingbox only encodes, not decodes??? Is that right?