RV Entertainment Center Overview
Dave SolbergDescription
When traveling, sometimes what you want to watch on television is not what the kids, your husband, wife, or other travel companions want to watch. Because of this, your RV entertainment center offers you the ability to control what signals are fed into the two different parts of the RV: the front and the back. Using the RV entertainment center controls at the front of the unit, you will be able to control whether or not a television is receiving signals from the antenna, an auxiliary feed or the VCR/DVD player.
With an RV entertainment center control box your unit can receive a signal through an antenna feed that can be routed to either the front or the back television in the RV. You can also choose to connect to an auxiliary source which can be used to connect to campground feeds or to a satellite dish.
Though not very popular, the RV entertainment center will have a switch to send the signal from a VCR to the televisions. When sending the signal to the front television you will have the option to record something from the antenna or auxiliary connection. In most models, only the front television source will allow the record feature with a DVD player to be used.
Depending upon your RV entertainment center control panel model, you can opt to replace the VCR with a DVD player. However, there will not be an option to record from an outside source when connecting with a DVD player.
The RV entertainment center makes it very convenient and possible to watch two different feeds on different televisions. It is a great way to give the kids their space in the back of the RV where they can watch their favorite cartoons, while the parents relax in the dining or living room area of the unit.
The entertainment center in most RVs allows you to watch different feeds from the front TV and the back TV. This one happens to be up in the front compartment right here, and we see that we've got TV number one, is right here, and that's the controls for these. TV number two, here, is back in the bedroom, and then this will do our VCR or DVD. So the way the system works is if I want to watch antenna feed, which is right here, I would come off the antenna that's up on top of the unit itself. This happens to be an auxiliary feed and that could be the co-access down in the service compartment, if you open up the side, a lot of campgrounds will have a cable ready I can hook a satellite dish to that, bring that feed up in here. The third one then is coming off the VCR, now the VCR control here allows me to go off of antenna, so if I want to come through the VCR, and maybe record a video or something like that, um, or a TV program, or I can do the auxiliary here, again, which is gonna just go off of the VCR itself. The same thing with TV number two. I have antenna, I can watch auxiliary, in the outside feed, or I can watch the VCR, so that'll take the feed into the back rooms, so I can watch different feeds on different televisions.
just bought a jayco 31SS 2004, it has 5 speakers on the inside but exterior mounted. normal speaker wires are ran to the would be media center. just have a tv and the wires sticking out a hole currently. those speaker wires must plug into something before the tv. receiver or amplifier. everything I see at stores is heavy and bulky. any suggestions on what others use? in the video i am responding to I also have that switch box.
I have a Furrion 32" in my class c model that needs to be replace since the tv screw brackets have been broken pulling the unit out from the swing arm. Is the wire at the bottom hardwired in with this unit. Tried to remove but did not unplug like the rest of the cables?
What is the best way to update an existing system like this to a newer flat-screen and HDMI blue-ray/DVD player? Is there a newer entertainment center to replace this? Would you have to run HDMI all the way from the front to the back TV?