Choosing the best HDMI Switch (HDMI Switch)

An HDMI switch (also known as HDMI switcher, HDMI switch) receives signals from multiple sources and HDMI HDMI sends signals from one of them to your HDTV. In this way, acts as agent to accept many HDMI signals for HDTV, even if your HDTV has only 1 or 2 HDMI ports (s). You can connect multiple HD sources to your HDTV, such as: * Blu-Ray HD-DVD, DVD player with HDMI output * PS3, Xbox 360, Wii HTPC with HDMI output *, or computers with HDMI ports * HDTV box, satellite Dish Network, HDTV recorder * Camera HD or HD Cam recorder * The other devices that are capable of generating signals to HDMI. There are some things you should consider before buying an HDMI switch.

1. How many ports Do you need? An n-port HDMI switch HDMI signals received from HDMI sources n. A switch to 100 HDMI ports might be the best in the world, but if you have 100 HDMI devices to be connected, is a waste. Knowing how many devices you have the HDMI video outputs, and buy those that best suit your needs. It appears that the most common, and therefore more affordable, are the switch 3 HDMI ports, perhaps because most people need 3 doors. 2. Supported audio and video special A switch must support HDMI 1080i / p, 720p, and while standard definition (eg, DVD) resolutions. Must support DTS / DTS-HD, Dolby Digital / Dolby TrueHD, Linear PCM (LPCM). These are the bases of the base, because these formats are often used in HDTV, the HD games and HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. If an HDMI switch does not support any of these specifications, it is not worth buying at all. In addition, it should not be converted, luxury downscaling any video / audio content at all, because each conversion will probably cause loss of quality. Now we turn to the more advanced features that you should consider. 3. Auto see art A Manual HDMI Switch HDMI switch and should have both automatic and manual switching functions. automatic switching. Every time you turn on a HDMI source, the HDMI switch will automatically select the source. If you decide to activate another switch to the second HDMI source. If you put on another, go to the third device. In many cases, it is smart enough to understand and take care of most, if not all, of your switching needs. manual switching. automatic switching does not always work when there are one or more HDMI sources “always on” as HDTV recorder (HD PVR) box or a satellite network, which has no doubt that often and is always bright. In this case, you must manually select the desired HDMI source. HDMI switch with manual overriding are usually a button that allows you to choose the desired source manually push HD. For example, if the switch is in an entry, you press the button once will allow you to choose input 2, press to allow you to input 3. 4. HDMI v1. 3b good enough? The answer is yes, because 99% of products out there on the market are compatible with HDMI 1. 3b or earlier standards, such as HD-DVD, PS3, Xbox 360 and most Blu-Ray. Although HDMI v1. 4 (released May 2009) meet in a few nice features like 3D HDMI resolutions up to 4k x 2k, there are very few products or cables to support this new standard. For this reason, it seems that HDMI switches currently on the market that support HDMI 1. 4 yet, but it should be a matter of time for switches to adopt HDMI 1. 4 and for the future. 5. It is HDCP? HDCP is a protection against copying to avoid copy-righted content from a trip through the HDMI / DisplayPort / DVI freely, unless the devices are connected to HDCP. A good switch should support HDCP HDMI v1. 0 / 1. 1 Pass-Through. If the device supports HDCP pass-through, it means that the delivery of digital content for the next device without even touching it at all (hence the “pass-through). This means that if the Blu- Ray, for example, works with your HDTV when connected directly via an HDMI cable, then they should also work with an HDMI switch that supports HDCP pass-through, because the switch passes Simply HDCP encryption your HDTV without changing anything. So I need HDCP pass-through? Yes, you. HDCP pass-through is an indispensable function. The supported version better. The most common versions are supported v1. 0 and V1. 1. Summary A decent HDMI switch should have the following characteristics: * the right number of ports you need * How many video / audio formats as possible for both automatic and manual switching *; HDMI * 1. 3b * meets or exceeds HDCP v1. 0 / 1. A pass-through. If you have checked all these characteristics in the choice of HDMI Switcher buy, you must be in good shape.

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