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Resident_Hazard on 09 September 2010
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Snesboy said:
Resident_Hazard said:

If they have AV cables, they are somehow plugged into splitters, going into a Receiver, going into my TV.  The oldest system which actually operates well on my plasma TV is the NES, which is the oldest system I have with an AV output.  Every system released around or after the Genesis that I own, is hooked to the HDTV.  The rest, the older ones, are around a 27-inch tube television adjacent to this whole mess.  The Intellivision rests atop that TV, and I discovered that these older systems do not like to be wired through each other where the RF cables are concerned.  They need to be plugged in one at a time.


There might be such a thing as an RF switch box. But I'm not sure. I'm gonna go look for a link.

EDIT: Doesn't look like such a thing exists.

Yeah I think it's always been assumed that:

1.  RF cables can be wired through each other.
2.  No idiot will ever try to wire up to 6 devices through one another.  I'm that idiot--Atari2600, 5200, 7800, TurboGrafx-16, Sega Master System, Mattel Intellivision. 

The NES and Saturn were formerly wired in this way, but without AV cables, neither system broadcast audio on my surround sound system--and I didn't like that.  I want that mono Castlevania coming at me from all sides!

The only system I have that I cannot use is the old Coleco Telstar, which requires a TV so old that it still has horizontal and vertical hold knobs.

It never donned on me to wire any of that stuff through my VCR.  I may have to give that a shot.

 

EDIT (I forgot the Intellivision)