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If you know that you need a two way hdmi splitter and you're considering this product, buy it. Its perfect I have an hd dvr and an hd dvd player hooked up and all i do to switch inputs is press a button. The picture is clear...it has no constant power source meaning your not going to lose any picture or sound clarity. Its basically like pulling the hdmi cable from the hd dvr and plugging it into the dvd player whenever you switch back and forth, except all you do is press 1 button. People complain that "IT DOESNT HAVE A REMOTE" Tell me, is a remote control going to open a dvd and put in in the player????? probably not so while your up there push the button. It is tiny as hell it can fit in to the palm of my hand it cant be bigger than a pack of smokes

Just as advertised. Works great - received it in 1 business day. The picture makes it look huge, but its really not. I'm a very happy customer!

This product works just as described -- you can hook 2 HDMI devices to 1 HDMI input on your TV.
However, note that with a switch like this one that doesn't provide its own power, your TV signal may look less than perfect. With this box, I get a little bit of distortion (some blurry pixels) around edges with high contrast, and occasionally you'll see "shimmering" where portions of the picture flicker lighter or darker.
This really isn't the box's fault -- it needs its own power to amplify the outgoing signal so there's no signal loss. However, those powered boxes are about $50. So for a quick and dirty solution (e.g. in your bedroom, not in your nice home theater room...), this works fine!

I bought this item because I needed a switcher obviously but this particular one because of no power and it was advertised as 1080p capable. I bought through Amazon and a third party dealer Cabledirect but received a similar item that was NOT 1080p compliant. The imformation on the box, brand name and specs, did not match the add as shown here on Amazon. I received a Monoprice HDS-201 which only passes up to 1080i as stated by the manufacturer. This may not be a big deal if you are only using DVD but if you have a game console, HD-DVD or Blu-ray which are all capable of sending a 1080p signal to your display then this unit will degrade your signal and should not be used.

SHARE THE SAME VIEWS AS OTHERS-SIMPLE TO USE-ITS A PASS THRU-DOES WHAT IT IS SUPPOSED TO DO-I HAVE A HD DVD PLAYER AND VERIZION FIOS HD BOX-WITH 1 HDMI CONNECTION ON MY TV-I TOOK A SD MOVIE AND PAUSED IT IN 1 SPOT-USED THE SWITCHER AND THEN USED THE INPUT DIRECTLY FROM THE HD DVD PLAYER TO THE HDMI ON THE TV-AND COULD NOT NOTICE ANY LOSS OF PICTURE-SAME FOR HD TV PROGRAMS