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chrisredmayne
Avid Contributor I
October 17, 2016
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Will a cheap £2 optical splitter work ?

  • October 17, 2016
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Look at this on eBay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/321740736081

Would this get 5.1 sound from my tv and ps4 and switch automatically? Presume when the ps4 is on if I tell it to go through optical no signal will come out of this tv ?
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    ChrisC29
    Enthusiast I
    October 24, 2016
    Depends what you're trying to achieve, I use the £2 splitter (although I didn't pay £2 for it from eBay, as the quality of them is terrible) because I don't want to have to switch anything, I simply want to turn one device off and another on and the sound change itself. I didn't want another box and remote to have to change the sound input. With the splitter you have to make sure that you're only sending on signal at a time, I use it on my Xbox and my HTPC, I turn one off and the other on and the sound comes through from the device that is switched on. If both is switched on, you get silence. If you want to leave devices switched on (or they send a silent signal when on standby) and still be able to switch the input, then you'll need a switch like above.
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