I have a bell satellite reciever, I am trying to hook up a second tv to the hdmi output, I hooked up a hdmi splitter! but it does not seem to work. I get a picture on only one tv and no sound. when I unplug one of the cables the other tv works fine. I checked the splitter and it (claims) to handle this format, and claims it should work. Is there something else I need to do or am I waisting my time?

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The HDMI splitter is intended to take one source to two displays. You need an HDMI switch to take two sources to one display, a device you can tell which input to select.

Dave King

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• Posted on Apr 28, 2010

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Unfortunetly that won't work. The tv has no way of generating a signal it can only receive signals. What you do is put the splitter prior to the signal getting to the tv. That would give you two identical hdmi outputs or signals.

There are two types of hdmi splitters one is active and the other is passive. The cheap one is the passive and you can find those for about $15 and up. They are just a cable with two outputs. The active one is a electronic box and will provide 2 or more outlets.

The passive one is tempting as it is so cheap but you have to be aware that the signal can be degraded sometimes and this will be seen as noise, spots etc basically your picture won't be as good. Some tv's won't even accept the signal if it gets too low.

The active one uses powered electronics to split the signal and maintain the strength and data. They are a a 'weeee' bit more expensive at around $250 but are the proper way to do it.

Try the cheap one first then at worst you are only out $15. These are available at most chain stores selling tv's.