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HDMI keys and multiple TV's
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| Topic: | HDMI keys and multiple TV's This thread has 8 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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| Post 1 made on Thursday August 22, 2013 at 18:23 |
I have a unique situation involving a local cable company and a customer who wants the output from one cable box to 2 tv's. The cable box (Motorola DC series) goes HDMI into a receiver (Sony 1030 - customer supplied) then from there out to a HDMI splitter directly to 2 TV's. If I hook up the output from the receiver to either TV it works fine. If I hook up through the splitter I get stuttering picture and sound. I also have a Sony bluray hooked up to the same receiver and it works just fine with both TVs connected.
This leads me to believe that this has to do with the HDMI keys available from the cable box. No other cable boxes are available from the cable company.
My first thought was to swap out the Sony receiver for a Yamaha with a zone 2 HDMI output. Does anyone here know if this would count as one key or two?
If that is not a solution, does anyone here know of a 2 way HDMI splitter that could bypass the HDMI key issue?
Thanks,
Kurt
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| Post 2 made on Thursday August 22, 2013 at 18:55 |
MikeZTC Senior Member |
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[Link: extron.com]MSRP on the two output DA is $690. Includes their KeyMinder function. The DA acts as a sink device, and each DA output port supports 16 keys.
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| Post 3 made on Thursday August 22, 2013 at 20:09 |
iform Advanced Member |
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Have you tried hooking up the splitter out from the cablebox?
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| Post 4 made on Thursday August 22, 2013 at 20:48 |
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I have done exactly what your trying to do. Client provided POS low end Sony receiver, client provided Sony bluray, Comcast HD cable box to, two LG 55" LED's.
I took the output of the receiver into a transformative engineering HDMI splitter, and then fed each TV via HDBaseT extenders.
This was for a dentist office and its on 10+ hours a day and has been up and running for the last year just fine.
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| Post 5 made on Friday August 23, 2013 at 09:22 |
Rob Grabon Founding Member |
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Tivo an option?
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| Post 6 made on Friday August 23, 2013 at 09:27 |
lippavisual Senior Member |
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On August 22, 2013 at 20:09, iform said...
Have you tried hooking up the splitter out from the cablebox? ^^This!!
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| OP | Post 7 made on Friday August 23, 2013 at 10:17 |
On August 22, 2013 at 20:09, iform said...
Have you tried hooking up the splitter out from the cablebox? Client wants to be able to watch either cable or blu-ray on both TVs, so the splitter has to go after the receiver.
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| Post 8 made on Friday August 23, 2013 at 15:03 |
lites4u Active Member |
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Try this. They work great if you can get your hands on one. [Link: crestron.com]
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| OP | Post 9 made on Friday August 23, 2013 at 19:34 |
I think I might be over thinking this. Shouldn't I be able to hook up the cable box with component and digital audio to the receiver, let the receiver up convert the signal to HDMI, then output from the receiver to the HDMI splitter then out to the TV. It's only a 1080i signal so there is no real benefit to HDMI over component.
What do you think?
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