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<blockquote data-quote="sjevtic" data-source="post: 1102567" data-attributes="member: 118214">Well, that's interesting regarding those, umm, &quot;splitters&quot;. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp; Please report back on your findings.&nbsp; BTW, I used inexpensive S/PDIF to optical converters from Monoprice, and they have been working without issue.&nbsp; I would be thrilled to get rid of all that if someone finds a simple HDMI-based solution.One thing I remember having a big problem with when testing HDMI was resolution switching--for some reason, I would lose my stream whenever the receiver's output resolution changed, something that commonly happens when switching between channels broadcast at different resolutions.&nbsp; You can avoid this by turning on the DirecTV receiver's scaling feature, but that's not a viable option from my perspective, as the quality of the built-in scaler is junk and also results in scaled recordings (read: unnecessarily large files).Sasha</blockquote>

[QUOTE="sjevtic, post: 1102567, member: 118214"] Well, that's interesting regarding those, umm, "splitters". :) Please report back on your findings. BTW, I used inexpensive S/PDIF to optical converters from Monoprice, and they have been working without issue. I would be thrilled to get rid of all that if someone finds a simple HDMI-based solution. One thing I remember having a big problem with when testing HDMI was resolution switching--for some reason, I would lose my stream whenever the receiver's output resolution changed, something that commonly happens when switching between channels broadcast at different resolutions. You can avoid this by turning on the DirecTV receiver's scaling feature, but that's not a viable option from my perspective, as the quality of the built-in scaler is junk and also results in scaled recordings (read: unnecessarily large files). Sasha [/QUOTE]

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