DVD chaos and HDMI cables and switches [sponsored post]

Something that I am working on tonight is getting the televisions and stereos sorted out and hooked up and getting my DVD recorder set up. You would think as many years as I have owned the thing I would know how to connect them cables up straight. And I'm not even technologically handicapped. ::shakes head::

For some reason every time I unhook that DVD recorder, even if I just unplug from one TV and carry it as a set in and plug the cord straight into another TV - it won't work. I don't know what the deal is, but there is something about it that it refuses to make life easy on me.

What I need is a system to allow me to just leave the DVD recorder set up and never have to move it again. Or maybe a longer cable so that I can leave the DVD recorder in my bedroom and run a second cable on a switcher to the television system in the front room for when something needs to be recorded off the satellite system.

Technical Cable Applications carries HDMI Switches and all the needed cables, adapters, and equalizers for long distance HDMI Cable runs in residential as well as commercial settings. And they sell cables in lengths ranging from 8 meters up to 30 meters, so I can easily wire the cable in and not have to worry about it being too short to make the run from my bedroom to the television in the front room.

I also want to check out their HDMI switch, which allows for the connections of up to four digital A/V appliances. I think that is just what I need for setting up the switching system that I have in mind for being able to control the A/V stuff in this house. Which would be a nice change after how many years that stuff has controlled me instead.

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