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Need a 1x4 HDMI switcher with an optical out
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Post 1 made on Monday June 30, 2014 at 11:56
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Title says it all, does anyone know of a 1x4 HDMI switcher that strips out the audio and outputs it via optical? (need's to pass dolby) also needs to be IR controlled

TIA!

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Post 2 made on Monday June 30, 2014 at 12:07
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Post 3 made on Monday June 30, 2014 at 12:23
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OP | Post 4 made on Monday June 30, 2014 at 12:42
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On June 30, 2014 at 12:23, ericspencer said...
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Post 5 made on Monday June 30, 2014 at 16:03
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Post 6 made on Monday June 30, 2014 at 20:26
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Wouldn't a 1X4 switcher actually be a splitter?
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Post 7 made on Monday June 30, 2014 at 20:29
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Post 8 made on Monday June 30, 2014 at 20:59
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Post 9 made on Monday June 30, 2014 at 23:25
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On June 30, 2014 at 20:26, Second Banana said...
Wouldn't a 1X4 switcher actually be a splitter?

Damn good question. One in, four out. That's a splitter unless there's some jaw-droppingly strange need to have that signal only go to one display at a time; then it would be a switch.
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Post 10 made on Tuesday July 1, 2014 at 00:53
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Semantics. You could call a 2x4 a 4x2 and both would be correct. Someone might get confused and build something that did not look like the picture. I know the "rule of thumb" for our junk is # of inputs X # of outputs. But what about the guy with no thumbs? :)
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Post 11 made on Tuesday July 1, 2014 at 09:59
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I see the culprit has renamed it 1x4 HDMI switcher. It was 4x1 HDMI switcher.

If it's semantics, it's pretty major semantics. Someone who doesn't know whether input or output is stated first is likely to make some major screwups.

If they happen to uncoil a directional HDMI cable onto the floor near the display instead of near the rack, then they run it "to the rack," they're likely to run it with the arrow pointing at the Blu-ray. I mean, they ran it from the display to the source, so the arrow goes in the direction they ran it, right? Given that the parts of the task are just one cable, one input, one output, and a path for the cable, this is about the biggest error you could make. It's semantics and it'll screw you. "Semantics" does not mean "it's minor" or "it won't cost you a day" or even "it won't cost you thousands of dollars."

Every once in a while I'll run across an installer who talks about running wires from speakers to amplifiers, and all I can think is that when they have a problem and have to troubleshoot a load problem, a short, a backwards VC, they will have a hard time thinking clearly. If you run wires from the speaker to the amp, don't the input wires go on the speaker side of the VC?

Besides, you're asking us to judge whether the writer is more likely to know:
*whether it's a switcher or a splitter, versus
*whether the first number is the inputs or the outputs.
If a person is going to be wrong as to which is which, why would you expect the simpler order of naming to be wrong? I'd expect the more complex "is it a switch or a DA" to be wrong.

Frankly, though, it's embarrassing that none of us asked right away how a 4x1 could possibly be a switch!
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Post 12 made on Tuesday July 1, 2014 at 10:15
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On July 1, 2014 at 09:59, Ernie Gilman said...
I see the culprit has renamed it 1x4 HDMI switcher. It was 4x1 HDMI switcher.

If it's semantics, it's pretty major semantics. Someone who doesn't know whether input or output is stated first is likely to make some major screwups.

If they happen to uncoil a directional HDMI cable onto the floor near the display instead of near the rack, then they run it "to the rack," they're likely to run it with the arrow pointing at the Blu-ray. I mean, they ran it from the display to the source, so the arrow goes in the direction they ran it, right? Given that the parts of the task are just one cable, one input, one output, and a path for the cable, this is about the biggest error you could make. It's semantics and it'll screw you. "Semantics" does not mean "it's minor" or "it won't cost you a day" or even "it won't cost you thousands of dollars."

Every once in a while I'll run across an installer who talks about running wires from speakers to amplifiers, and all I can think is that when they have a problem and have to troubleshoot a load problem, a short, a backwards VC, they will have a hard time thinking clearly. If you run wires from the speaker to the amp, don't the input wires go on the speaker side of the VC?

Besides, you're asking us to judge whether the writer is more likely to know:
*whether it's a switcher or a splitter, versus
*whether the first number is the inputs or the outputs.
If a person is going to be wrong as to which is which, why would you expect the simpler order of naming to be wrong? I'd expect the more complex "is it a switch or a DA" to be wrong.

Frankly, though, it's embarrassing that none of us asked right away how a 4x1 could possibly be a switch!

I'm fairly certain Brendon did not change the title from 4x1 to 1x4. I think it was always posted as 1x4.

If you are in this business, you would have to be a complete moron to not know what a 1x4 or 4x1 SWITCH does, regardless of whether it is written as 1x4 or 4x1. The difference between a switch and a splitter is pretty self explanatory. Sometimes you just need to stop looking for things to nitpick and just read what is there and use your brain to determine what is implied.
Post 13 made on Tuesday July 1, 2014 at 10:17
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On July 1, 2014 at 10:15, goldenzrule said...
I'm fairly certain Brendon did not change the title from 4x1 to 1x4. I think it was always posted as 1x4.

If you are in this business, you would have to be a complete moron to not know what a 1x4 or 4x1 SWITCH does, regardless of whether it is written as 1x4 or 4x1. The difference between a switch and a splitter is pretty self explanatory. Sometimes you just need to stop looking for things to nitpick and just read what is there and use your brain to determine what is implied.

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