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Amazon has REMOVED my previous comment and the ones of 3 other customers who were saying the same thing as me because the comments were not in favor of the product. WHERE IS OUR FREE SPEECH RIGHTS ?

Anyway, here it is again:

Very strange. Please read:I received a different switch - no AUTO SWITCHING - very deceived.After telling BARGAIN CELL about it, they just told me their vendor could no longer provide the same switch and this one was the replacement, too bad, they thought the functionnality was the same, IT IS NOT.Shortly after my email, they changed the picture on Amazon listing to reflect the new item BUT WITHOUT CHANGING THE DESCRIPTION, but now, the same listing is back with the original product photo but with a different vendor, what kind of game is played here.Anyway, they offer a full refund if i send back the product with a prepaid return label. Since it's rather cheap, i will keep this MANUAL switch but thought it might be useful to tell everyone about it.This is kind of annoying that they were selling something they could not garantee delivery an took on their shoulders to send a completely different product WITHOUT ASKING THE CUSTOMER FIRST.Now, since there seem to be a new vendor listed for this item, i suspect, they might be the same company.So use BARGAINCELL or this other company with caution.

I purchased this item after reading many of the reviews. Product looks and works just as described. It is very compact and easy to hide and control VIA the included remote extender. The Auto switching does work, although two of my devices are always on so I have to switch using the included remote which works fine as well. My 3rd device is a DVD player and when turned on it does auto switch. I connected my HD Tivo, Att-Uverse, and Samsung upscaling DVD through to the switch with 18" HDMI cables, then through a 25' HDMI cable to a 46" Samsung LN-S4696D HDTV. I've had no issues at all and overall very impressed with the value of this switch. I recommend it.

An awesome little gadget!

I got this from Game Infinity and was so impressed when I opened it and found the additional IR receiver which I hadn't even realized was going to be in the package, that I wondered if maybe I had the wrong thing (I hadn't).

I had wondered where to place the switch to allow the remote to "hit" it, without having yet another piece of electronics visible to the room, but the small little IR receiver immediately fixed that concern. Not only that little bonus, but due to the auto-sensing nature of the switch, I don't even need to send remote signals to it right now since the auto-sensing feature is handling everything with no manual intervention.

One of the biggest problems with auto-sensing switches is that a lot of HDMI devices output a low power rate even when turned "off" in standby mode. When that happens, auto-sensing struggles since it cannot tell the difference between a device truly being on or being on standby. In my setup I have an energy saving power strip that is controlled by a master device, so when I power off my AV Receiver (my master device) with the remote, it then fully powers off the switches for other connected devices. This is a common power saving device, but because it fully shuts off the power to the other devices, the auto-sensing HDMI switch then really knows that the other devices are also turned off.

My cable box is plugged into a separate (standard) socket, and that is always on as far as the HDMI switch is concerned. As a result it always defaults to the cable input if nothing else is turned on. Just what I want!

If you have trouble with the auto-switching, I strongly recommend looking at the kind of master-controlled power strips that you can get at any major store that sells electronics. Not only might it fix your problem but it should save you money in electric bills too!

Setup was as simple as connecting the cables, it looks nice - not cheap and nasty, the unit works exactly as I expect and the IR extender was an unexpected bonus (even though I'm not using it at present, I might need to if I change my device power configuration).

A fantastic buy. I would definitely recommend one and buy another myself if needed inthe future.

Awesome HDMI switch. Simple and elegant. Easy to set up, took literally a few mintues. Love the automatically switching of HMDI devices. This saved me from upgrading my HDTV, since my TV only has one HDMI input and I neeed to hook up a new DVD player along with my Cable box.

Works exactly as it says it will. Perfect visual quality.

So i live in a small apartment and i have a 22inch widescreen monitor for my computer with only one hdmi input. I wanted my xbox elite to use it also. So i have the computer hooked up through one hdmi on the switch and the xbox through another. The switch will automatically detect when my xbox is turned on and switch the monitor to the xbox. As soon as i shut off the xbox it switches back to my pc. I could not ask for a better product, especially for the price.