Help Me With This Problem ...

[dschamis]

I very much enjoy listening to music while playing my PS2.

I currently have the PS2 hooked up to the RDC-7 via component video & optical digital audio.

The problem is that I can't figure out how to put the audio on the RDC-7 on CD, and the video on Component #2. The CD input only gives me video options for Video 1-5, not the components.

Any ideas? This seems like it could be a software oversight, that hopefully would be fixed in a future upgrade.

Thanks,

David

[Burke Strickland]

David -

Unless they change the allowable input configurations in a future update, it looks like you'd need to use "DVD", "Video1", "Video2", "Video3", "Video4" or "Video5" to be able to use both a digital audio input and a component video input for the same "Input Source".

The "Default Setting" chart on p23 of the "Instruction Guide" shows "No Applicable" (sic) under "Component Video" for "CD", "Phono", "FM", "AM", "Tape1" and "Tape2". The "DVD" and "VideoX" input sources either have a component video input assigned by default or show "----" ("No setting"), which indicates one is possible, but would need to be assigned by the user.

Here is an alternative: The RDC-7 lets you select a video source to play and then select a different audio source to play at the same time with the audio source overriding the video source's audio, while keeping the video source's video active. So you could assign the PS2's component input to a video source and the PS2's digital audio to "CD", and then first select the video source and then "CD" in sequence for playback.

Hope that helps a little...

Burke

[dschamis]

Actually, couldn't I use a Video input for the CD player, and assign to it Component Video #2, then use a second Video input for the PS2, and assign the same Component Video #2.

I think that this, or something like this, should work. I can then rename the Video input I use to something like SONY SACD.

Lets see if this works.

David

[Burke Strickland]

Sure -- if your goal is to punch just one button on the remote and have the video from the PS2 showing via component video inputs and the audio coming from your SACD/CD player, then it sounds like what you propose should work. I've already found that you can have the same audio input assigned to more than one named source; I don't see why the same shouldn't be true for video inputs.

Good luck!

Burke