How do I connect 2 televisions to a PS3 for a charity singstar event!

Hi all. I've got a problem. My friend is hosting a charity
playstation event at her house, and has asked me to connect 2
televisions to the PS3 for the singstar game (ie, one TV facing the
singers and another facing the crowd!)

Neither TV is HD, so HDMI is out the question. I think we're talking
SCART then. How on earth would I go about doing this?

Also, she needs the same solution with a PS2 as well as the PS3. If
anyone knows of any cables that could do this, I'd be grateful to know
how!
Thanks!

On 03/09/2008 16:19, Paul wrote:

to connect 2
televisions to the PS3
Neither TV is HD, so HDMI is out the question. I think we're talking
SCART then. How on earth would I go about doing this?

If you use a passive splitter cable, you won't get a good result, Maplin
sell a powered scart distribution box

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=47416

Or you could use an RF Modulator and then split the output to the aerial
inputs of two TVs

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=33050

Paul wrote:
Hi all. I've got a problem. My friend is hosting a charity
playstation event at her house, and has asked me to connect 2
televisions to the PS3 for the singstar game (ie, one TV facing the
singers and another facing the crowd!)

Neither TV is HD, so HDMI is out the question. I think we're talking
SCART then. How on earth would I go about doing this?

Also, she needs the same solution with a PS2 as well as the PS3. If
anyone knows of any cables that could do this, I'd be grateful to know
how!

Without resorting to DAs, there might be a way.

Some TV sets allow you to define the output coming from their Scart socket.
The default condition is usually the TV's own tuner, but on some models you
can set the input to one of the AV inputs, to be the output from another.
Might be worth looking closely at the set up menus.

If so, then you connect the PS3 to one TV, and feed the second one from the first.

Only likely to be composite, I've not seen RGB routing ever used.

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I'd imagine the modulator route will be pretty naff if the definition etc,
is important.

Brian

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On 03/09/2008 16:19, Paul wrote:

to connect 2
televisions to the PS3 Neither TV is HD, so HDMI is out the question. I
think we're talking
SCART then. How on earth would I go about doing this?

If you use a passive splitter cable, you won't get a good result, Maplin
sell a powered scart distribution box

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=47416

Or you could use an RF Modulator and then split the output to the aerial
inputs of two TVs

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=33050

On 04/09/2008 09:26, Brian Gaff wrote:

I'd imagine the modulator route will be pretty naff if the definition etc,
is important.

I've used two of those modulators for in-house distribution (admittedly
only to 15" screens) but quality was pretty good, sure it's not
RGB/Composite/SVideo.

I presume a picture that's good enough to read Karaoke style lyrics is
all that's required - after all aren't most people going to be laughing
with/at their mates more than inspecting the picture quality?

On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 08:19:23 -0700 (PDT), Paul
wrote the following to uk.media.tv.misc:

Hi all. I've got a problem. My friend is hosting a charity
playstation event at her house, and has asked me to connect 2
televisions to the PS3 for the singstar game (ie, one TV facing the
singers and another facing the crowd!)

Neither TV is HD, so HDMI is out the question. I think we're talking
SCART then. How on earth would I go about doing this?

Also, she needs the same solution with a PS2 as well as the PS3. If
anyone knows of any cables that could do this, I'd be grateful to know
how!
Thanks!

I've got a Madcatz cable that has composite and S video connectors:
http://www.madcatz.com/Default.asp?P...iversal_Cables

Seems to work OK with both connectors in use at once. The one I have is
fairly old but the current one has connectors for PS2, XBox and XBox 360,
and Gamecube.

mh.
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Hi all. I've got a problem. My friend is hosting a charity
playstation event at her house, and has asked me to connect 2
televisions to the PS3 for the singstar game (ie, one TV facing the
singers and another facing the crowd!)

Neither TV is HD, so HDMI is out the question. I think we're talking
SCART then. How on earth would I go about doing this?

Also, she needs the same solution with a PS2 as well as the PS3. If
anyone knows of any cables that could do this, I'd be grateful to know
how!

A scart y-lead would seem the obvious choice, unless I'm missing
something?

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Jon wrote:

A scart y-lead would seem the obvious choice, unless I'm missing
something?

You'd end up double terminating the PS2. Wouldn't do any damage, but you'd get
a dimmer picture than you should on both TVs. Might be good enough, because
you could adjust Brightness and Contrast to compensate, but it would still be
a bodge.


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On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:52:54 +0100
Jon wrote:

A scart y-lead would seem the obvious choice, unless I'm missing
something?

I guess you're missing the need for impedance matching.

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On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:52:54 +0100
Jon wrote:

A scart y-lead would seem the obvious choice, unless I'm missing
something?

I guess you're missing the need for impedance matching.

Apart from getting 2/3 of the correct video level, what would be the
effect of double-terminating?
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