🎉 Elevate Your Gaming Experience with Seamless Switching!
The SGEYR4K HDMI Switcher 5x1 is a high-speed HDMI selector box designed for gamers and entertainment enthusiasts. It features 5 HDMI ports, supports 4K@60Hz resolution, and offers a reliable 18Gbps bandwidth for seamless device management. With intuitive controls and broad compatibility, it serves as the ultimate hub for all your HDMI-enabled devices.
W**S
It switches! (ref. to my previous review on the HDMI Splitter - "It splits!")
When I saw this brand listed on Amazon I was a bit confused as to how to pronounce it. I eventually landed on Say-gur. Doesn't matter how one chooses to say it, though - the talented people behind this brand are who matter!This brand of electronics has now found its way into my setup TWICE! First as a three-port HDMI switch, now as this FIVE-port switch. When I build out my setup, I'll have two ports going spare for the moment, which is fine. :)Thing is, mine is probably not the most advisable setup for true cinephiles, because I connected the three-porter to the five-porter with the HDMI Splitter by avedio Links in the middle - which allows me to play on both my smaller computer monitor and my big TV simultaneously - but the noticeable lag is MAYBE 0.01 second's worth - that is absolutely negligible and I can't even tell on which output that happens - and testing out Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, I can conclude it doesn't figure negatively into my gameplay or really anything else - and positively, it gives a fast echo effect to the sound that makes it seem more sonorous, which is good for theater-style movie watching. It helps I power everything up, I think. :)Cool aluminum for heat dispersal! Proper routing for strong, seamless signals and automatic signal selection based on new or existing signals. That describes both switches I've gotten from this brand quite well.Best thing for convenience? Unexpected but welcome - the remotes that comes with the switches operate on the same wide-effect frequency, meaning back at my chair I can just point and shoot and both come on at the same time! I can choose which one turns on - I've got my Xbox One X hooked up directly to the new switch if I want to use that - by physically blocking the IR signal (invisible, but it's definitely there!) with my hand in one direction or another at the head of the remote! (This is just a personal preference, but I do turn my switches off when I'm not using them, to prolong their overall life.)Great stuff! Thanks - this is definitely my HDMI switch brand of choice.
J**S
Worked as expected using a DC 5v/2a external power supply
3YR UPDATE. Product is still going strong, after years of heavy use. I've seen no degradation in video quality or change in performance. Note: I'm also using an external power supply as explained below, which may be helping my experience, but ... The following original review from 2020 still applies:I’ll update this review if anything goes south. I read a few reviews of the product behaving poorly and dying early. I had a very different experience myself, I was pleasantly surprised.Full disclosure, I had on-hand a 5v/2A generic power brick I’d been using on another HDMI 6x2 matrix, so no need to use the USB power supply - maybe that’s why this worked so well for me?I bought this for a typical reason: Multiple HDMI game consoles, but TV only has 4 HDMI inputs, one is taken by my sound bar, one is used with my laptop when needed, one for my STB, so only one port left for consoles.I bought new high quality HDMI cables to use with this unit. Install was pretty straight-forward, plug in my power brick, run one HDMI to the TV, run the other HDMI to the consoles. Remote came with no batteries but I found the auto-switching worked perfectly to make it fire up whichever console I turned on. Turning on my Nintendo Switch and my PS3 will cause my TV to turn on and change input to the HDMI splitter, but for some reason my XBOX 360 won’t. I think maybe the console doesn’t support sending whatever signal is necessary? I didn’t test to see what would happen if you turn on a 2nd console while one was already on, I typically turn off consoles when I’m done. No issues seen when turning off one console, then turning on another.Anyway, video is clear as day, full HD, no artifacts, sound is great too! This solves my problems in one small and relatively inexpensive shell. I was surprised by how small and light it is, seems pretty cheap. It looks like this same unit is rebranded under multiple different names on Amazon, so I expected it to be problematic. Surprisingly not!I’m going to run with it and hope I get a couple years of usage at least.
T**N
Needs protection!
I had mine in service for almost 6 years without a problem. It finally died when a combination of conditions were met. The conditions were that I happened to plug in to a non-grounded outlet and that night a lightning storm came through. Since it didn’t have surge protection due to not being grounded, it was toasted. The power light now flickers and no signal is transmitted through the ports. Fortunately, these are still relatively inexpensive. I do think this is a decent device, but make sure you plug it into a grounded receptacle and run it through a surge protector.
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