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Just ordered an Arc Ultra to replace my trusty Beam gen 1 which I’ve been using via my TVs optical out.

 

All 4 of the HDMI ports on my TV are used, and as I now want Atmos on the Arc and therefore have to use the TV’s eARC port, I’m looking at a splitter/switch. Current ports are 1 - Virgin, 2 - 4K Blu-ray, 3 (eARC) - PS5, 4 - Switch 2. Only ports 3 and 4 are 2.1 spec.


The obvious choice would be to use HDMI4 with a 2 in/1 out switch for the consoles, and connect the Arc to HDMI3. However, is there a splitter (not a selectable switch) with which I could connect to HDMI3 (eARC) on the single port side, then connect the Arc and PS5 to the dual port side?

 

This would take the PS5 signal in one direction, and eARC audio in the other, through the single cable connected to the TV, and the splitter. Hope this makes sense.

The Arc Ultra must be exclusive to the eARC port. Therefore use as many of the remaining HDMI ports with HDMI device connections and save one HDMI port for a HDMI selector switch for the remaining devices that utilize HDMI. 

It will be a two step process when using devices connected to the HDMI selector/switch.

  1. Select the HDMI port using your TV remote 
  2. Select the appropriate device connected to the selector/switch manually or via its remote assuming the switch has that feature.

Thanks, I though that would be the case.

 

Ended up using an existing splitter I had lying around for connecting HDMI1 to my Virgin box and Blu-Ray player, as I don’t use the latter very ofter. Switch 2 into HDM2 (2.0 is good enough as it won’t do 4k/120, just 1080p/120 or 4k/60), Arc to HDMI3, PS5 to HDMI4.

 

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