Egreat H10 | 4K HDR Splitter (Only HDR10) | HDMI Audio Extractor (Dolby Atmos, DTS:X, etc.) | Used - Like New

This HDMI splitter solved my problem perfectly, which few other products could do. I recently purchased a 4K HDR TV. Then I bought a Xbox One X to play 4K HDR blu-ray movies and game in 4K HDR. The problem was that my AV Receiver is a little too old to support 4K HDR, although it does support the latest audio formats (Dolby Atmos and DTS:X). The Xbox One X has a single HDMI output. When I connected that HDMI out from the Xbox to my AV Receiver, then the video output to the TV was downgraded. When I connected the HDMI out from the Xbox directly to the TV, then I got proper 4K HDR video but then the audio format was downgraded.Because of this problem with older AV Receivers in a home theater system, some new 4K blu-ray players have 2 HDMI outputs. This allows one to send video directly to the TV on one HDMI cable and audio to the AV Receiver on a separate HDMI cable. But my Xbox One X has just one HDMI output. By using this Egreat video-audio splitter, I was able to replicate this solution of splitting video & audio to get the best picture quality and the best sound. I can now route a 4K HDR signal to the TV while still getting the premium sound formats (Dolby Atmos & DTS:X) from my AV Receiver.Note:Auto-detection of the TV's & AV Receiver's feature set by the Xbox One X works properly now with the Egreat splitter inline. I doubt that would have worked with a simpler HDMI splitter that just replicates the full AV signal on both outputs.

I have an UHD 4K TV and an older receiver with HDMI 1.4 that doesn't have HDR pass-through and HDCP 2.2. I use my Xbox One S as a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray player. I used to need a 2-output HDMI splitter to send HDMI 2.0 video to the TV and HDMI 1.4 audio to the receiver. I found this one, called Egreat H10. I noticed it has two critical reviews. However, personally that hasn’t mattered for me. Nowadays negative as well as positive reviews are bought on Amazon in quantity so I decided to order it nevertheless and check out by myself. And I'm not disappointed. I plugged the Xbox One S into an INPUT port, the TV into a MAIN port and the receiver into an AUDIO ONLY port of the HDMI splitter. My audio settings for the Xbox One S are 5.1 uncompressed. After that I turned on all devices in the following order (it’s better to make sure that each device is fully switched on before starting the next one): TV Receiver Xbox One S HDMI splitter All works neatly. I have 4K HDR video routed to the TV and DD True HD or DTS-HD MA sound decoded by the Xbox One S and routed to my receiver without HDMI 2.0.

I spent the past week testing three competing products, and I’m going to post this review under all three for the sake of anyone who’s looking for the same functionality I was.I just bought an Nvidia Shield because I read that it was one of the only set-top boxes that could pass Dolby TrueHD and DTS-MA uncompressed audio from applications like Plex to compatible receivers. I have a 2017 Vizio M75-E1 TV and an old Denon 3808CI AVR. The Vizio can handle 4K HDR, and the Denon can handle TrueHD and DTS-MA, so my hope was that the Shield would be able to send a 4K HDR signal to the TV and an uncompressed audio signal to the receiver. Unfortunately, the Denon can’t pass a 4K signal to the TV, the TV can’t pass uncompressed audio to the Denon, and the Shield only has one HDMI output, so I knew I’d need some sort of splitter.I found three promising options, all of which did a version of the same thing: Accept one HDMI input and send its signal to two devices. The tricky part is EDID emulation. I needed a splitter that would send the Shield an EDID that represented the best capabilities of both the TV and the receiver so that the Shield would send out the best possible picture and sound. Here were my three options, along with what I found:1. ViewHD VHD-UHAE2: For about $60, this device seemed on paper to do exactly what I needed. The problem was that none of its EDID options could simultaneously represent the best of both my TV and my receiver. It left me with two options: Either send 4K, with no HDR, to my TV and get TrueHD and DTS-MA to my receiver; or send 4K HDR to my TV, but have to use the SPMC Plex app to decode TrueHD and DTS-MA into PCM5.1 to send to my receiver (please see every high-end audio forum ever for religious arguments about whether this represents a downgrade). So it basically worked, but required more care, feeding, and compromises than I was hoping for.2. Egreat H10: At $120, this device costs about twice as much as the other two. It claims to take the best of each of the devices it’s connected to and use that to generate an optimum EDID, and in my case it did just that. It was literally plug-and-play. I plugged it in, and the Shield showed me the same resolution/color options I get when I plug it directly into my TV, and every video app I used automatically started sending my receiver the best audio stream available for every video.3. Gofanco Prophecy: This device was a little different from the others, in that it‘s meant to send identical signals to two devices rather than split a signal into two audio and video parts, so I’m not exactly its normal target market. Still, it’s about the same price as the UHAE2 and it did a solid job. This device allows you to design your own EDID by selecting dip switches, but that part was easy for me as it defaults to its highest quality options. When I plugged it in, I got almost ideal resolution and color options (close enough that I wouldn’t have seen any difference in quality from what the TV is capable of), but Plex wasn’t sending uncompressed audio. The SPMC Plex app, however, was passing TrueHD and DTS-MA once I configured it a bit, so mission mostly accomplished.In the end, the two things I can say with certainty are that the UHAE2’s EDID capabilities were a disappointment for me, and that the Egreat did exactly what I wanted it to do with no hassle, albeit at a much higher price point. I’m tempted to keep the Gofanco and deal with the inconvenience of having to use the SPMC Plex app instead of the regular one to save the $60, but I’ll probably swallow the extra cost of the Egreat to have a solution that I don’t need to think about or work around.In case anyone has any devices in common with me, here are some traps I fell into along the way:1. It had been years since I’d sent a still-encoded TrueHD stream to my Denon, and it had the strange effect of sending some channels to the wrong speakers, and dropping others altogether. I had never upgraded my Denon firmware in the almost decade I’ve owned it, so I plugged the Denon into the network and tried that, and luckily it solved the problem completely.2. To get the Vizio to accept a 4K HDR input, I needed to know two things that I couldn’t find in the product manual: It can only accept 4K HDR over HDMI1, as that’s its only HDCP2.2 interface (the others are 1.4); and I needed to adjust the settings for HDMI1 to allow full color (why that wouldn’t be set by default I have no idea). The Shield would not give me the full range of color options until I got that right.