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Originally Posted by Wyrestorm
I received a call from a customer who purchased one of our (Wyrestorm) 1-in 4-out HDMI splitters and is using a Samsung Blu-Ray BD-3600 and only wants to distribute digital audio via HDMI to 3 different Yamaha Recievers (RX-V365, RX-V565, RX-V765). He states that when he connects HDMI from Blu-Ray to Yamaha receivers, audio is fine, but when he tries to split the HDMI from the Samsung to the 3 receivers he gets no audio. Anyone have any suggestions to the cause and/or solution. This is my first post so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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LCD's do not have Dolby TrueHD or any dts format decoding on board and most HDMI splitters were designed to split video to multiple displays. Your application being to split a blu-ray player output to multiple AVR's is not as common as the former. At the store I work at we use the Audioquest HDA-145 HDMI splitter and the original version did output lossless audio via the 4 outputs. That worked fine for the 2 demo rooms that have multiple AVR's, but in the other 4 systems I only needed to split the blu-ray player to a single AVR but the 3 additional LCD's in the rooms could only accept video, not the lossless audio track. When the blu-ray player detected that 3 devices out of the 4 could not accept a TrueHD or dts HD Master signal there was no audio out of any device. I contacted Audioquest's chief engineer Xiaozheng Lu and he designed a new firmware for the splitter that only output audio to output 1, but 2 through 4 passed only video. That fixed my problem. Now all the the HDA-145's ship with that setup. If you contact Audioquest they could probably program a splitter to work like the original firmware did, audio passed to all outputs.