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- Works as advertised, switching between two inputs with a push of a button - Small form factor, reasonably sleek design - WAY cheaper than a full-up keyboard + mouse + A/V input switch station
My setup: Xbox One, Wii U, PS4, TV Display and Projector Display. I recently added a projector to my setup where I like to watch. My kids sometimes like to play their systems on the TV or projector. As anyone who reads above can appreciate, I'd get calls from home while at work asking what cable goes here, what cable goes there? I'd come home to a mess of cables to fix every time. I found these splitters, 3 to 1 HDMI port expanders, and manual switch, and started thinking of that I could piece all of these together to make it a seemless, easy, and headache free experience for anyone to use. Techole had 3 products that I used. I ended up using 2, 3 to 1 port expanders, 3 signal splitters, and 1 manual switch. See my drawing for the detailed cable mapping. It worked perfectly to my plan. No more cables have to be moved at all. The splitters allowed me to send the gaming systems signal to both the TV and the projector simultaneously. Now the kids can just turn on the TV, projector, or both! Very happy with these splitters. One final comment. These are sold with 5v power cables, but I did not need them.
Old HDMI splitter died, so ordered this one for 4K box and TV but honestly most of viewing is 1080p. TVs in both rooms work. Instructions say to make connections and then power on. Comes with USB cable but no power supply so had to plug into back of cable box. if no available USB port to use as a voltage source, you will need to buy a charger. Nice firm connections into box for HDMI cables and for USB input. Smaller form factor than old box as well.
Got it for a good price ($9.99). I wanted it to make conference calls from my iPad mini. Hooked up an old Teac MC-10 mic, the kind with a 3.5 mini-jack (bought years and years ago from Radio Shack), to the mic input. Because the inputs on the Startech were so close together, I had to put a short extension (male-female) cord into the headphone input. At the end of that, I put an ordinary splitter (two ring). Then I proceeded to put two sets of headphones into the splitter. Had stereo in both. No loss of volume in the earphones. The mic is cheap and maybe the pickup isn't the greatest, but it really worked! Big plus, the call did not sound like a speakerphone call. Would recommend it.