Hi,
This question may have already been answered, and if so, I apologize.
I'm trying to set up an audiovisual system for my church such that we have 3-4 computer inputs and up to potentially 8+ outputs. The inputs include one permanent desktop computer and up to two laptops that speakers could potentially bring from home. We have a projector and a decent sound system through the sanctuary, and we're looking to upgrade our switcher. We are currently using a pretty old VGA switcher with a number of HDMI/Cat5 converters.
I'm wondering what's a good quality HDMI splitter/switcher that I should look into? A couple other requirements:
1. Ideally, we'd like to be able to pull the sound out from the splitter/switch so that we can plug it into our speaker system
2. We want seamless switching between inputs (e.g. less than a couple seconds to go from one to the other input).
We recently bought a new projector that has an HDBaseT receiver built in. If the splitter/switch has the HDBaseT transmitter built in, that would be great. All the other outputs can handle HDMI outputs. As far as I understand, all the outputs should also be viewing the same thing, so I do wonder if we can also use a simple 4x1 switch instead of a 4x8 switch.
Any advice / guidance / thoughts would be very helpful. Thank you very much. I tried searching the forums, but I may have missed the post that answers my question. If you could direct me to that post, I would be very grateful.
Thanks!
This question may have already been answered, and if so, I apologize.
I'm trying to set up an audiovisual system for my church such that we have 3-4 computer inputs and up to potentially 8+ outputs. The inputs include one permanent desktop computer and up to two laptops that speakers could potentially bring from home. We have a projector and a decent sound system through the sanctuary, and we're looking to upgrade our switcher. We are currently using a pretty old VGA switcher with a number of HDMI/Cat5 converters.
I'm wondering what's a good quality HDMI splitter/switcher that I should look into? A couple other requirements:
1. Ideally, we'd like to be able to pull the sound out from the splitter/switch so that we can plug it into our speaker system
2. We want seamless switching between inputs (e.g. less than a couple seconds to go from one to the other input).
We recently bought a new projector that has an HDBaseT receiver built in. If the splitter/switch has the HDBaseT transmitter built in, that would be great. All the other outputs can handle HDMI outputs. As far as I understand, all the outputs should also be viewing the same thing, so I do wonder if we can also use a simple 4x1 switch instead of a 4x8 switch.
Any advice / guidance / thoughts would be very helpful. Thank you very much. I tried searching the forums, but I may have missed the post that answers my question. If you could direct me to that post, I would be very grateful.
Thanks!