Kinivo HDMI Switch 4K HDR 301BN (3 in 1 Out, 4K 60Hz HDR, HDMI 2.0, High Speed 18Gbps, IR Remote, HDCP) - Compatible with Roku, PS5, Xbox, Apple TV, Nintendo Switch, Cable Box

NOTE: This product is currently unavailable as of the time I'm writing this review. This is odd because I literally just bought and received this on Friday 8/21/2015 and it showed no signs of running out of stock anytime soon. Now, I'm writing this review the very next day (8/22/2015) and it is currently unavailable. Weird...anyways onto the review.~Added two pictures: One of the device itself, another of the device next to my gamecube controller so you can see how small the Kinivo actually is~This product does exactly what I wanted to do, and at a great $39.99 price as of the time I paid for it. There are a total of 5 HDMI input ports that you can hook into it, + one HDMI output port that you would most likely be connecting to your HDTV. Personally, I'm only using 4 of the 5 as of now because I only have 4 devices that need HDMI: my Wii U, PS3, PS4, and AT&T U-Verse TV box. All of them work great with no glitches, quirkiness, reduced quality, or any of that.Each of the 5 inputs are labeled 'Input 1', 'Input 2', 'Input 3', and so on up to 5. There's a button on the device itself called "Switch" that you can press to sequentially switch through all of your available connected devices. However, this product also comes with a very cool and small remote that lets you control the switches from it via Infrared signals. The remote has up/down arrow buttons that respectively increment and decrement the current HDMI input device you're on. However, it gets a little bit better as there are also 5 other buttons on the remote (numbered 1-5) which map to your 5 HDMI input devices. This lets you freely control which HDMI device you want to display without having to use the linear up/down arrows or the 'Switch' button itself on the device. There's also 1 more button on the remote called "Memory". When you press the Memory button, Kinivo remembers the current HDMI device that is being displayed, such that whenever you turn your HDTV on, Kinivo will automatically switch to the remembered HDMI device. I haven't tried this feature yet so I can't comment on how good it works but it sounds promising.Last thing I want to touch on is what I mentioned in my review title. This device has two interesting auto-switch features that can be either handy or annoying depending on the context of your usage. Firstly, when you turn on a device that is connected to your Kinivo, Kinivo will recognize this and automatically switch the currently displayed HDMI device to the new one that was just turned on. i.e. You're currently watching TV, and you turn on your game system that's connected to your Kinivo. Kinivo will automatically switch to displaying the game system. As I said above, depending on the context of your usage, this feature can either be very useful or very annoying because maybe you didn't want to play your game system at that point in time. Maybe you were just turning it on now in order to play it later. Secondly, if you turn off the device that is currently being displayed on your HDTV, Kinivo will recognize this and automatically switch to the next available sequential HDMI input. Using the above example, let's say your TV box was Input 2, and your game system was Input 3. If you're currently watching TV, and you decide to turn your TV box off, Kinivo will automatically switch to the next available sequential HDMI input, which in this case would be Input 3, the game system. Again, it largely depends on the context of your usage, but this can also be either very useful or annoying.All in all, I'm still giving this 5 stars because the auto-switch features aren't that big of a deal. Even if Kinivo auto switches to an HDMI device that you do not want displayed, you can always just whip out your remote and change it back. All of which takes a few seconds.

This is the 4th, and unless my needs change, the last switch that I will buy. This switch has been dependable and has thus far worked flawlessly. To understand why I like this switch I think it helps to understand what was wrong with the the 3 other switches I used before this one.Foremost, each of the other switches suffered from what I believe where "handshake" issues. When two HDMI components are connected to each other they perform a handshake that lets each component recognize the other and allows them to decrypt the HDMI signal. (HDMI signals are encrypted to prevent piracy.) If the handshake doesn't go as planned the devices are not able to decrypt the signal and are therefore unable to display or pass along the signal to the next device. In my set up I am using the switch to add HDMI ports to an older A/V receiver that only has two HDMI ports. This requires the source device to pass the signal to the switch, which in turn passes it to the receiver which then passes processes the audio before passing the signal to the TV to process the video. With other switches the handshake between the switch and the source, or between the switch and the receiver would get messed up, resulting in a loss of signal. With the Kinvo HDMI switch I have had zero handshake issues and everything has worked smoothly.A secondary issue I had with other HDMI switches was an issue with the signal becoming corrupted. Although the handshakes took place and each device recognized the others, the signal itself would become corrupted resulting in a distorted picture or heavily laden down with image artifacts. The result was that I was unable to use certain devices with a switch and needed to configure my system so that the affected device did not pass through the switch, which wasn't always ideal. I have not had this issue with the Kinivo switch and am able configure my devices the way I want.The final issue I had with other HDMI switches is inconsistent responses to a remote. I attribute this to either a faulty/cheap IR receiver or with the physical placement of the IR receiver on the switch. Thus far, I have had zero switching problems, and it has reliably responded to every command from the remote.While on the subject of remotes, I just want to point out that this switch is in the component database for Harmony remote controls. I was very easily able to program the switch into my Harmony Elite and Harmony Hub.So far this has been the best switch that I have used. It is simple to set up and operates reliably. If I need to buy another switch in the future, I would purchase another of these switches without hesitation.