Sewell 2 Port 1x2 Powered Hdmi Splitter V 1.3b (Up to 1080p) 3D Certified

by Sewell Direct

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B003B4O7NS
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (53 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #311 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 5, 2010

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Works if you get the settings right, read on..., May 18, 2010

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This review is from: Sewell 2 Port 1x2 Powered Hdmi Splitter V 1.3b (Up to 1080p) 3D Certified (Electronics)

First of all let me just say that this item arrived very quickly (4 days) and is working terrifically now.

I set this up with my 720p samsung 50" TV and a 20" LCD HD monitor. Coming from my FIOS box, the HD channels worked terrific, the HDMI splitter picked up the lower resolution TV and displayed perfectly on both outputs. However, when trying to view standard definition channels through the HDMI the splitter would only show an image on the HD LCD monitor (without the splitter these channels would normally show up without a problem on the TV).

I am writing this review to let others know how I solved the problem, because even the nice tech support guy couldn't solve it. Here is what I did.

I went to the FIOS box settings, and under the video sub-menu there is a setting for how it displays SD (standard definition) channels through HDMI. I changed this setting to "stretch" and voila! All channels now display perfect on both the TV and the monitor.


---A follow-up, I changed this from 5 stars to 3, it died after 10 months of usage and it seems from other reviews this is "normal" for this model. I would not buy it again. I bought a 4 port from another company with better quality feedback and I hope it will work. I apologize if my 5-star review got anyone else to buy this and had it die on them too.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works Great, April 10, 2010

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Construction appears to be very durable with a metal enclosure. Works great. I'm running one of the outputs 25 feet on the cheapest HDMI cable I could find on amazon and have a flawless picture on both TVs. LED on the device is orange.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works great with sketchy setup., January 13, 2011

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James M (Wantage, NJ) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Sewell 2 Port 1x2 Powered Hdmi Splitter V 1.3b (Up to 1080p) 3D Certified (Electronics)

I purchased this splitter to add another TV in a room on the other side of the house which is about 150' away from the source. The source being a DirecTV HD DVR (hr20-700). I have it split with a 50" Samsung Plasma TV which is about 5' away from the Sat reciever. Not wanting to run (or buy) an HDMI cable that reached 150' away (if it's even possible to get a picture over HDMI at that distance?), I looked into variuous options such as wireles Video Senders, etc... I ended up buying a set of wallplates that allow you to extend an HDMI cable via Ethernet cable. It requires two runs of CAT5e or CAT6 UTP wire.
So here's my setup. I have the SAT receiver and four other devices (BluRay player, HD DVD Player, WD HD Media Player and a HD Roku) feeding into two a 3x1 HDMI switches which are chained together so the output of the first one feeds one of teh inputs on the second one. (I know I really need to break down and shell out the money for a 5x1 HDMI switch, but I already had these two on hand and for now it works and it didn't cost me anything more. The output of the HDMI switch feeds into the Sewell 2 Port 1 x 2 Powered HDMI splitter V 1.3b being reviewed here. With the outputs from the Sewell splitter simultaniously going to the 50" Plasma that is close by and a 32" HD LCD located about 150' away connetced via a 6' HDMI cable into the wall plate, then converted to > 150' CAT6 UTP Ethernet cable to the other wall plate > then back to 3' HDMI and into the 32" TV.
Both TV"s are running at 1080P and amazingly enough, both are working perfectly. I knew I was taking a chance buying the Sewell splitter based on some other reviews and the Manufacturer's warnings about limitations, but with the Sewell and the wall plates ($18 for the pair), this was the cheapest solution short of running a new COAX and renting another DTV receiver. I used to be anal about what kind of A/V cables I used and I've spent a small fortune on high end cables for my Home Theater room downstairs, but after reading the results of a test where they had 25 professional installers, A/V salesmen, and company reps tested to see if they could tell the difference in picture and/or sound quailty between several hundred dollar HDMI cables Vs. a Walmart Cable, a Radio Shack Cable and a home made cable, the majority of them answered wrong and almost all said they saw and heard no difference in quality. Honestly having those expensive cables did make me feel all warm and fuzzy, but I never noticed a difference and have some fairly high end equipment hooked up to them in the HT room. My point is, I gave up buying the best cables I can afford and I just buy ones that don't look like they are going to fall apart. One great place to get awesome cables is Bluejeans cables.

BTW...I live alone, so I don't see why I would ever have a need to watch different channels in two different rooms, so for a single loser such as myself, this splitter turned out to be a great inexpensive solution. Now to sum up my long winded summary... It works very well even with the long runs so if you need to split a HDMI signal, Buy it. Period. Good Luck with your setups!