Pelican HD System Selector (4-consoles)

by Pelican Accessories

Product Features

• Changeable nameplates let you add or change systems as you go
• Hidden front access areas with AV and S-Video hook-ups
• Compact cabinet design for fitting easily with your home entertainment system
• Includes AV/S-Video and Component cables

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0006TIA7K
• Item Weight: 2 pounds
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: March 15, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #25,776 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Pelican's HD System Selector is the ultimate control device for all your gaming systems and your home video setup. It lets you switch easily between your DVD, Xbox, GameCube and Playstation, just by touching a button. The HD also supports the latest technologies, with inputs for AV, S-Video, Component and Ethernet connections.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Gets the job done for not alot of mulah., October 24, 2007

By 

T. J. Shea (Fredonia, KS USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Pelican HD System Selector (4-consoles) (Video Game)

Ok, first of all the item is not as bad as some of these reviewers have written. I went out of my way to get a second one as I have NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Xbox, Xbox360, and a PS2 with a PS3 in the pipe. Both work flawlessly.

Here's the skinny... it's a switchbox... not a processor. It's 20 bucks... not 120.

That said you will have about a 0.5% signal loss (about a dB in signal) going through the unit. Unless you have a really nice HD TV and know where every pixel on the screen is going to be and at what time... you're not going to notice the loss. It does work in HD. The guy who says it doesn't should try fiddling with his settings. If the console and TV aren't configured correctly it will look very bad. All the box is is a physical switcher... wire for wire... and a solid one at that. I dropped mine on a concrete floor while moving and it took it smiling. The lack of completeness on the nameplates for the front is the only packaging complaint of mine. Most people that will use these are hardcore enthusiasts that will likely still have some of the older systems. At any rate... it's worth the money. If you're worried about signal loss then you can go ahead and buy one of the state of the art combiners and signal regenerators that will give you the best possible picture on a single mixed-down set of outputs. If you can afford the TV that would make a noticeable difference in this then you can afford to not bargain bin on your cables and switches anyways. (gold plated connectors are just an excuse to charge you more.. gold is actually a worse conductor than copper is.. worse than the alloys they use on this stuff nowdays, even... it just doesn't corrode. If you take care of your stuff you won't have that problem anyways.)

My only physical complaint about the unit is that it only has 3 component inputs and not 4 of them. The fourth input is composite/s-video, though, and better than most switches composite-only fourth port. I'll be buying a third and fourth one of these to handle the mix-down of the few consoles I'm adding in the future as they do not make, currently, a 12 port component switch... which is what I need.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent for those with too many devices, January 29, 2006

By 

C. Smith "zephyran" (Columbus, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Pelican HD System Selector (4-consoles) (Video Game)

Before we picked up our Xbox 360, we were already maxed out on the input ports of our home theatre system. This device, though, helped us piggyback our 360 in with our Playstation 2 connection with no noticeable loss of quality. It has both component and composite inputs (great if you have multiple devices with more than one output type), as well as interchangeable labels for each input. It's all mechanical, so there's no power connection necessary.

The one way it could have been better would have been if it included optical audio ports, but I understand that is much more complex technology and requires more expensive components. Aside from that, though, it has worked absolutely perfectly for me!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Steal At 20 Bucks!, June 11, 2007

By 

Eric DeFreest "WOLF9764" (Rensselaer, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Pelican HD System Selector (4-consoles) (Video Game)

I've had this for a year and a half (I have my XBOX 360, PS2, Gamecube, and DVD player hooked up to it) and it works just fine! Don't belive the review that it doesn't work on HD (it's also hooked up to my HDTV with NO compromise of picture quality at all!) It's amazing that this works so well being the fact that the exterior of the unit is almost made entirely of plastic....the only reason why I didn't give it 5 stars.