Hey gonk,

I will use the spliter and go with the 4:00 arrangement. Thanks. My question is can I also leave the HDMI's from the sat and PS3 going driectly to the TV? Then I can just turn on the TV and either sat or PS3 and not have to turn on my 990. Thanks.

How come the spliter has a booster on it when all you are really doing is blocking out the signal from going to another path? Thanks.

You ought to be able to do that, yes. My HD cable box has an unfortunate quirk in that it disables the component output when the DVI is connected, but I think that's become less common on newer equipment so your satellite box and PS3 should be able to output through both component and HDMI at once.

When you divide a signal, the signal's strength drops (by about 3dB I believe). The splitter divides the signal and boosts it to compensate for that, then sends the signal to both (or all three, or all four) outputs at the same time. A switcher (with multiple inputs and only one output) just steers one of the inputs to the output and disregards the other.

Awesome, time to get wiring. I will let you know how it all works out.

Thanks again to gonk and all the others who helped out!