dual hdmi converter

Feb 23, 2017 4 Replies
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My basement is partitioned into 2 rooms. Each room has a TV. One is connected to a Direct TV box. When ai want to use the other TV I have to remove one HDMI cable and plug in the other cable. Using the remote is no problem as it is RF activated.



I see on ebay some Y cables the will send the signal to two places. Most of them say not for for cable TV boxes and other things like RUKO. I did try one that I did not see that mentioned just to see if it would work as it was less than $ 5 including the shipping. It did not work as I wanted it to, but did some strange things. I got a picture but no sound, then about 10 seconds later on the screen came up something like that station did not suppport the HDMI to use the composit input to the TV..



Does anyone make a splitter that will work with a Direct TV box and send the HDMI signal to 2 TV sets ? I don't care if I can have only one on at the time as both TV sets are never on at the sametime.



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On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 12:58:50 -0500, Ralph Mowery wrote as underneath :

I tried three splitters before I found one that really did work, its a bit hit and miss. The one I baught finally is no longer on Ebay so I cant give you a link. Look for the following: Splitter and HDCP v1.4 stripper that will do 4k (for future proof) it will have to have outside power supply. It needs to have an amplifier also included otherwise they cant cope with anything longer than about 2

down on one of these criteria and didnt work reliably, they also ran

the one that finally did the business and works a treat.. C+

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Is this what you want?

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That seems to be what I want. Charlie above sent some info about getting one to work.

There seem to be lots of ones like the one on ebay. Have you tried that one, or just going by the description on ebay ?

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I haven't bought it yet, but I need something similar to be able to connect my KODI box to a TV or a computer monitor in the same room. I can't see the monitor when I'm in bed, or the TV when I am using the computer.

Never piss off an Engineer! They don't get mad. They don't get even. They go for over unity! ;-)
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