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Okay. Once you have dual screen working with a laptop and a tv, how does one arrange it so there are two tv's working with the same image- one for the singer and one for the audience?

How are you feeding the TVs?     What are you coming out of?

I have recently purchased a 4-Way Selector box (4 inputs) at Radio Shack.  I hook the S-video outputs from both my cdg player and from my laptop into that selector.  From that selector box the S-Video cable now goes directly to my one TV hookup.  Ideally, I would like to continue to use this selector box and be able to have a second TV hooked in.

I split mine with a.......splitter. Works perfectly everytime

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KJ, FL

Thanks.  Actually I may have not been specific enough.  With the help of the forum I have two screens working: one on my laptop and a different one on my tv.  Will the splitter allow me to control both TV's simultaneously and end up with the same image?

All you have to do is take the line you are running to the back of the TV and Split that one. If it is RCA, that is easy, and if it is Coax, all you need is a splitter box. Since they are both coming from the same output line, the image will be the same.

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IF you want to, you could split the S-video going to your singers TV with one of theses....
http://store.svideodotcom.com/svideoy.html
Then run another S-vidoe to the audience TV.

Or a cheaper easier way woiuld be to convert the signal from the 4-way selector box to coaxial or compisite signal using a RF modulator, if the 4-way selector box dosne't have thoes outputs.  THen split thoes lines and ru them to the 2 seperat TVs.

It all depend on what outputs your 4-way selector has.

I'll check with Radio Shack in the next day or two about the splitter.  I'm glad the task is that simple and thank everyone for their assistance!

Eric

If you are making a long coax run or hooking up to multiple TVs you should get an RF amplifier (Radio Shack) to boost the Coax signal.    1 in 4 out.

What if it's a long-run with an S-video line?

Actually, after thinking it over, my spitter has an RF modulater.  So, I am now going coax to one TV and S-video to the other.  Thanks, BigD.  How long is the long run I should be concerned about? Right now I'm playing around with it in my living room, and it's working fine, but I want to be ready when the time comes to take the show on the road!

Actually, after thinking it over, my spitter has an RF modulater.  So, I am now going coax to one TV and S-video to the other.  Thanks, BigD.  How long is the long run I should be concerned about? Right now I'm playing around with it in my living room, and it's working fine, but I want to be ready when the time comes to take the show on the road!

If you have a good quality Coaxial Cable, RG-6, good ends, and are running from your splitter directly to the back of the audience screen, you should  have no problems unlles the run is ove 200 feet.

Now if there is a lot of interference in the bar from transformers, ballasts, compressors, ect... that could be reduced.  But again if your cable is of good qualit, it should be sheilded from most interference.

Some need to support a room full of TV sets.. You may need a "Booster" designed to improve the signal so all sets have a good signal..

Others don't care..  :O

I purchased 50' of Coax and connected it to the TV furthest from the equipment, no more than 15' away.  With 50', there is no degradation, whatsoever.  How would one hook up a "chain" of six TV's on Coax?  Where would you connect the "in's" and "out's" cables?  Where would you place the amplifier?

Amplifier would go BEFORE any of the TVs.

You can buy 6 way splitters with one imput and 6 outs. Then you could run one cable to each TV from the splitter.  But that might use up a lot of coaxial cable

It could be possible to us use 2 way splitters and jupm from TV to TV...

--video line----amp------splitter1--------------Spliter2-------splitter3   and so on
                                       |                           |                  |
                                      TV1                      TV2              TV3

It all depens on how the bar hs it system setup.

I have permantly installed coax in a couple place I gig at.  I just put a, A/B switch on the Cable TV line comming into the building, and wired one side for the cable TV signal, and the oter side for a karaoke feed.  Now I com in to gig, hook up to the karaoke line, flip the A/B switch, turn all the TVs to ch 4, and they all show karaoke.

One last question, which goes back to exended desktop screens and/or clone screens

Is seems that in order to establish a dual screen of any type the computer must output the image through the S-video jack.  Correct?

From the S-video output, you can run the line through an RF modulator and send the image to the second screen through a coax cable.

Is there anyway to produce an image on a second screen utilizing the RCA input jacks on that piece of equipment?

For RCA just buy a Y-adapter....
http://www.audiogear.com/cgi-bin/shoppe ... add=action
(ya can get em at rat shack too)


Then if you wanted to you could one one of the RCA lines to one TV, and use a RF modulator on the 2nd RCA line, and then change it to coaxial cable.

Thanks folks. That's great to know.  I've all kinds of RCA adapters if I should need to use RCA jacks.  I prefer the coax, though, it seems to be the least expensive means by which to cover a distance.  No?  And I also find it coax more convenient to roll up when I'm done with it.