I just picked up a 2RU cable management thingy to help organise my cables in this 19" rack:BubbaMc wrote:Holy shit I had no idea those switched audio as well.niall wrote:Not my pic, but while I wait for the BitBlitz I picked up a bunch of RGBHV cables to make up custom SNES, NES, N64 cables, and one of these babies
which is going to feed a pair of Loewe 32" CRTs (with VGA input) and a Sony KV-2900 via UMSA.
I'm getting one.
The Crosspoint matrix switchers are pretty sweet. I was considering a SCART switch for the longest time, and then I opened up one of these cheap SNES SCART cables and was so horrified I started Googling "RGBS switch" and vowed to get off these cheap cables ASAP. And lo and behold, I found a mint and unused Ultra 12/8 with original audio plugs and CD unopened etc. for about USD$80. Pretty nice feature set and upgraded capabilities when you compare it to those overpriced SCART switches!
Plus being a matrix switcher you can send 1 input out any 8 displays, or several simultaneously, or a second console to yet another output or set of outputs... It's a great match for a UMSA, and Crafty+Mech's upcoming BitBlitz, or if you had an XRGB3 or Framemeister or any other sort of line doubling/scaling addiction like bloody Fudoh has inspired in me
With the BitBlitz I can feed it a 15kHz RGBS or RGBHV (ArcadeVGA for GroovyMAME) and double its resolution. Luckily the Loewe 32" VGAs I have here can both handle odd resolutions like 1024x576p@50Hz, 720px480p@60Hz etc. And for 15kHz RGBS consoles - double it to 640x480p@60Hz and feed that output signal back into the Crosspoint on a free input, for any compatible display or scaler or whatever to do with it as it pleases
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