Ask HN: Can you recommend an “instant-switch” Monitor? Does one exist?

Re:Ask HN: Can you recommend an “instant-switch” Monitor? Do... by bombcar on Monday December 19, 2022 @08:40AM (#34051872)

Note that an expensive HDMI switcher is different from a cheap dongle goblin from Amazon. Try the cheap one first but if you really need instant switching you’re looking at a professional AV device.

http://decimator.com/ Has some really good shit including (accidental) hdmi copy protection removal.

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Re:Ask HN: Can you recommend an “instant-switch” Monitor? Do... by atoav on Monday December 19, 2022 @12:42PM (#34054975)

I am a media technician myself and the odd thing is that I have found no real corellation between price and capabilities when it comes to HDMI switchers, splitters and grabbers.

Sometimes the 400 Euro grabber works sometimes the 30 Euro one works. The expensive ones are surely more rugged tho.

I suspect all most manufacturers do is build a decice around some existing HDMI IC and if your stuff is supported by that IC and they didn't cut a ton of corners it works. Maybe you need the 4000 Euro price class to run it all, I never tried.

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Re:Ask HN: Can you recommend an “instant-switch” Monitor? Do... by bombcar on Monday December 19, 2022 @03:59PM (#34057623)

That’s what I’ve seen. Some super expensive gear works often but having various devices with various chipsets seems the way to go.

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