
Intec - Intec
Xbox 360
Release date: 2006-06-15
Video Game




I've been using this AV selector normaly for almost exactly one year, and it did fine untill recently, the inputs on the back began failing. The design of the back panel is poorly thought out, the top row of plugs are under a plastic lip, leaving too little space between plugs and lip, that is purely cosmetic, and when I plugged a "Monster" cable into one, it quickley failed, because of the constant pressure. I say failed because it stopped processing the signal properly and gives a distorted image. I am buying a different selector.
This is a horrible, horrible AV selector. Let me tick off the cons:
-poor remote distance
-sloppy signal to the tv (distortion and interference artifacts)
-the color of the plastic doesn't match the plastic of the xbox
-the xbox's rubber "feet" don't touch the selector, so the xbox sits on it's bottom surface, making the whole thing drone like crazy.
-the storage shelves are awkwardly arranged and it's hard getting games out of the cheap sleeves.
-generally cheap construction
now the pros:
-the green backlit buttons match the ring of light on the xbox
Don't end up like me; with a crappy AV selector in the back of a closet. It's so bad I would feel bad selling it on ebay to some unsuspecting gamer.
This is a terrible, horrible, mangled pile of plastic and metal that no person should ever touch. I hooked up 4 different component devices and every one looked awful. The picture was distorted and cut off, it jumped by about 20-30 pixels like it was vibrating, and the picture was in BLACK AND WHITE for two of them. However, since I used the 3 fiber-optic digital sound inputs instead of the RCA jacks, those actually transferred the sound signal. Whooo. This thing is very cheaply made and simply does not do what it should. Even the remote is a flimsy piece of garbage.
I am completely dumbfounded as to how this product was actually designed, manufactured, and shipped to stores with these problems. Did NO ONE test it? This kind of lazy, careless craftmanship has taught me NEVER to buy anything made by Intec again. Please don't learn from your own mistake, learn from mine and don't buy this piece of garbage.