HDMI Y Splitter

[neckedness]

Will this splitter work with the ps3?

Need to stop myself from swapping HDMI cable from the back of the PS3. Want to only use Reciever for movie watching. Son plays PS3 games all day long and need to save money and receiver heats up the room.

The setup would be PS3 to splitter, splitter to TV, splitter to Reciever. Will the Y splitter handle HDCP correctly?

[neos_peace]

in theroy I don't see why it wouldn't. Unless someone has some more technological experience wiht that.

[CasualKiller]

From reading the reviews it is not an HDCP compatible device and may not work.

[Animo]

Most HDMI splitters only work when splitting from one source to two monitors.
What you would really need is an HDMI switcher. Usually these come as stand alone small boxes.
However, searching Google just turned up this little number. Maybe it will do the trick.

http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Main_Ind...tch/index.html

[My_Two_Cents]

If you split the HDMI to both the TV and receiver, due to the way HDMI works (lowest common denominator audio), you will not be able to get any better than 2.0 stereo through your receiver since the signal will 'dumb-down' to that of what the TV could accept. You'd need to unplug the TV HDMI every time you want to listen to HD audio through your receiver.

At least, that's how I understand how HDMI works.

I think splitters like this are meant to take two inputs (e.g., BD player and SAT) and allow you to send both to a device (TV or receiver) that only has one HDMI input.

[neckedness]

Originally Posted by CasualKiller

From reading the reviews it is not an HDCP compatible device and may not work.

Well then, too late, I had just placed an order. I was wondering why couldn't they make it simply as a pass-through device? Like a little switch on it I could flick back and forth. If the device doesn't work, I might modify it with a switch.

[neckedness]

I guess what I'm really looking for is not a splitter, but a passthrough, switchbox with not electrical circuits that accepts one input with two output. No such device out is there?

[Animo]

Originally Posted by neckedness

Will this splitter work with the ps3?

Need to stop myself from swapping HDMI cable from the back of the PS3. Want to only use Reciever for movie watching. Son plays PS3 games all day long and need to save money and receiver heats up the room.

The setup would be PS3 to splitter, splitter to TV, splitter to Reciever. Will the Y splitter handle HDCP correctly?

As I mentioned in my previous post, one input to two outputs.
This is taken directly from the link page of the splitter you posted.

(*) This is splitter cable. You can only connect one input device (i.e. DVD player,cable box or satellite receiver) to two output device(i.e. TV or projector).You can't connect two input device (i.e. DVD player,cable box or satellite receiver) to one output device(i.e. TV or projector)

Originally Posted by neckedness

Well then, too late, I had just placed an order. I was wondering why couldn't they make it simply as a pass-through device? Like a little switch on it I could flick back and forth. If the device doesn't work, I might modify it with a switch.

The link I posted in my previous reply, may actually do the trick for you as it senses automatically which input device is being used and sends the signal to the monitor. Since you state you already made a purchase, just return it when it comes and try my suggestion.

[Animo]

Originally Posted by Ricshoe

If you split the HDMI to both the TV and receiver, due to the way HDMI works (lowest common denominator audio), you will not be able to get any better than 2.0 stereo through your receiver since the signal will 'dumb-down' to that of what the TV could accept. You'd need to unplug the TV HDMI every time you want to listen to HD audio through your receiver.

At least, that's how I understand how HDMI works.

I think splitters like this are meant to take two inputs (e.g., BD player and SAT) and allow you to send both to a device (TV or receiver) that only has one HDMI input.

Check my post above this one.

[My_Two_Cents]

Originally Posted by Animo

Check my post above this one.

And that does not change the way HDMI works as I described earlier. If you split from one device (BD player) to both a receiver and a TV, the only audio you will get will be whatever your TV can handle, which is most likely 2.0 stereo. The OP needs an actual switch that only allows one connection or the other to be active at any one time.

[neckedness]

Originally Posted by Animo

Most HDMI splitters only work when splitting from one source to two monitors.
What you would really need is an HDMI switcher. Usually these come as stand alone small boxes.
However, searching Google just turned up this little number. Maybe it will do the trick.

I do not need a switcher for this setup. I'd be using only one input and want to output to two devices, not at the same time either. The link you posted looks to be an HDMI switcher that selects from multiple inputs. Description says that.

By the I already own an HDMI switcher, 3 inputs to 1 output, automatically detects signal and switches to it.

[neckedness]

To clarify my original post, I just want to save some money by not having to use the Receiver all the time when my son plays games. I will only be using the PS3 to Receiver when it's movie watching time. So when son plays games, we leave the HDMI cable plugged from PS3 directly to TV. When watching movies, we pull out that HDMI cable from PS3 and Plug in another HDMI cable and that cable goes to the Receiver.

The purpose of the HDMI Y splitter or HDMI "cable swapper" is to provide convenient way to swap the cables. A regular HDMI switch box that has 3 inputs to 1 output will not work. The HDMI Y splitter cable that I just ordered may or may not do it right, only $6.65 so I might as well try it. If it don't work, I might be able to modify it and make it work.

[Johk]

Originally Posted by neckedness

To clarify my original post, I just want to save some money by not having to use the Receiver all the time when my son plays games.

Just curious, when you say saving money are you talking about saving some electricity by not using the receiver or prolonging the life of your component?

[ditch-digger]

from my experience (tried 2 different splitters with ps3) it does not work.

[Lucy Diamond]

From my experience and reasearch, you might run into your biggest problem when your cable box out is part of the chain.

The HDMI standard carries copyright information from the cable company and if the splitter or switcher isn't up to par, it may not send that part of the information it picks up.

My receiver does all my switching and sometimes the cable reads "your YPbPr is not decoding"

When this happens, I change the channel and then go back to HD and it usually bangs itself out.

I can tell you that this never happened before I started switching and yes all of my settings are correct.

Switchin HDMI can work and most likely will work for you but it can get dodgey.

Good luck and enjoy.

[neckedness]

Originally Posted by Johk

Just curious, when you say saving money are you talking about saving some electricity by not using the receiver or prolonging the life of your component?

Saving money on electricity. Also when the receiver is on, it really does heat up the room, therefore the AC is on longer...raising electric bill up. I also set my TV on power save mode.