The living room AV system in all its latest gory...

The Joytech switches analogue RGB video and digital audio. The Yamaha accepts digital and analogue audio, and decodes Dolby Digital 5.1 and dts surround sound. The DVDO de-interlaces and scales digital and analogue video to match the plasma screen's native resolution (1280x768p). It also outputs lipsync-corrected digital audio.

And no, that still isn't a typo in the heading... [last updated: 18 August 2008]...

Memories: my first micro-controlled switchbox (built to my design in 1985 by my late friend Colin) had four composite video inputs, an independent video recording bus, eight analogue stereo audio inputs, and two independent stereo audio recording buses. The concept of S-Video (Y-C) had hardly reached the UK. How things have changed.