Plasma Connections Issue

**mhubbard24** · February 6th, 2007, 10:31 AM

Doing a project where we purchased a plasma tv for a conference room. Basically I need to connect 2 pcs/laptops to it. The plasma comes with 1 vga port, and I do not want the users to have to unplug/replug into another device. I want one cable on the table for laptops and a permanent pc located in a cabinet connected. I have run vga cable to both locations. You should see the problem by now, 1 port, 2 devices.

So how do I share the one vga port? Will a simple y adapter do the trick? I would split it at the plasma and connect it to the 2 vga cables that run to their respective locations I guess. We will only use one at a time obviously.

I have a few other options I guess. The plasma has several inputs. DVI, Component, S video, etc. The desktop PC has a vid card with a dvi plug, but I cannot get a dvi cable easily in the wall due to the size of the end. I do not have the means to make a dvi cable either. So I am making this a last resort option of fishing this cable through.

I have some dvi to vga adapters so I tried to use those but it would not work. I think the plasma wants dvi input there and will not allow the signal through a vga cable through a dvi plug. I really thought this would work.

What about the component jacks (RCA). Any adapter that I could convert them to vga? Or Svideo for that matter.....

Any ideas? This seems simple enough but is perplexing me....

**NooNoo** · February 6th, 2007, 11:31 AM

nine bucks!

**mhubbard24** · February 7th, 2007, 08:04 AM

Thanks NooNoo but I think I need to go deeper. I looked at something like this but 2 issues. First is I have no where to put this box. Ideally, It would have to be put somewhere behind the plasma, which is mounted on the wall. If I were to put a box like this somewhere else, I would have to re-route video cable back through the conduit.. Secondly, my customers would not like to manually switch the box..... You know how customers are...lol

Thanks