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Camdogg · 02-01-2006, 03:05 PM

There should be no degrade in signal quality. My neighbor bought a switcher so for fun we played around with it (someone at a high end shop told him not to run video through any audio device so he didn't want to use receiver as switcher). But we did play around to see if there was any discernable difference between running both his DVD and Cable box into a splitter, into his Receiver, and also with each seperately plugged into HDMI. We didn't notice any difference between his splitter and running direct into his TV. He only has 1 HDMI input on his TV so we had to keep switching back and forth when testing the single input, but this only took about 20 seconds between. We did notice the picture was a little "buggy" when run through his receiver, but we figured that was mostly because we couldn't get the receiver end plugged in all the way due to location issues, and we didn't feel like unhooking everything from his receiver to be able to pull it out of it's nook. So you should be ok with a splitter. I wish I could tell you which brand it was, but I can't recall. If I remember, I'll edit and post below.

02-01-2006, 03:05 PM	#4
Camdogg Nothing clever to say.... Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Corona, CA Posts: 172	There should be no degrade in signal quality. My neighbor bought a switcher so for fun we played around with it (someone at a high end shop told him not to run video through any audio device so he didn't want to use receiver as switcher). But we did play around to see if there was any discernable difference between running both his DVD and Cable box into a splitter, into his Receiver, and also with each seperately plugged into HDMI. We didn't notice any difference between his splitter and running direct into his TV. He only has 1 HDMI input on his TV so we had to keep switching back and forth when testing the single input, but this only took about 20 seconds between. We did notice the picture was a little "buggy" when run through his receiver, but we figured that was mostly because we couldn't get the receiver end plugged in all the way due to location issues, and we didn't feel like unhooking everything from his receiver to be able to pull it out of it's nook. So you should be ok with a splitter. I wish I could tell you which brand it was, but I can't recall. If I remember, I'll edit and post below. __________________ 52 “ JVC D-ILA * Motorola 6412 HD DVR III * Toshiba Upconvert DVD * Harman Kardon DPR 1001 * Sony 300 Disc CD * iPod 30g photo * Definitive Technology Supercube II * Boston Acoustics VR1 towers- Front * Boston Acoustics CRC7 – Center * Boston Acoustics Micro 110x’s – Surround * Monster Power Center HTS 3500 MKII, Monster Cables: THX Ultra certified HDMI, THX certified fiber optic, THX certified component * Xbox w/HD pack Last edited by Camdogg; 02-01-2006 at 03:07 PM.