Connecting HD Cable Box and Xbox 360 to my tv

[rpc64]

My tv only has one HD input, and I am trying to figure out how to connect both my HD cable box and Xbox 360 simultaneously. Is the $80-$100 Pelican System Selector my only option? Will this device even work with a cable box? I don't see anything about that in the descriptions I've read, but I don't see why it wouldn't...

 

[LikeLinus]

There are tons of Component cable switch boxes out there. I assume your single input is Component?

Just search around google and you'll find tons of them.

That box will work though.

Read through that thread.

http://archive.avsforum.com/avs-vb/history/topic/408592-1.html

 

[bearxor]

I have a pelican 3 component switch box with fron AV input as well (so 4 selector but only 3 are component). It only cost me twenty bucks at Walmart and even came with a set of component cables. I used it for an XBox (not 360) DVD player and PC hooked up with component. Never noticed any signal loss.

On the other hand, I found a powered component switcher at Best Buy for eighty bucks and had CONSIDERABLE image quality degredation.

The last time I was at walmart it was only 15 bucks, around the same area as the video game equipment. Definetely worth a look.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Or you could get a sound system with a receiver that does component switching :evil:

 

[Sniper82]

I've seen a gameselector at Gamestop(Gamestop brand I think) for like $20 it has the component(and composite I think) connections. I remember seeing it and being pissed because I had just gave $20 for a crappy composite selector at Wal-Mart a couple weeks before.

It was something like this(back ordered though):
http://www.gamestop.com/product.asp?product_id=801888

 

[rpc64]

Thanks for the info guys. My only concern with the cheaper non-powered units was that there would be a loss of signal quality. But now I'm hearing some people say that those ones look fine, so maybe I will be ok with the $20 ones...