4x2 HDMI 2.0 eARC Audio Extractor & Switch, 4k HDMI eARC Adapter Supports IR Remote, eARC/ARC Switch, Soundbar, HDCP 2.2, LPCM 7.1, EDID, HDR10 and Dolby(401)

I was tired of swapping hdmi cords in my monitor every time I want to play a different machine, pc, ps5, switch etc. This is great to just switch with the remote. No more physically getting up to change the cord. Worth the money and I haven't even tried out the audio extractor part of it yet as I already have something performing that task.

I thought I'd take a chance and save a few bucks instead of buying an HDFury product... I've got a WISA Soundsend that I've been experimenting with, and it takes the eARC signal and cannot process raw HDMI signals... strictly the eARC signal that a TV or a projector creates for soundbars. Since there is a product (the Arcana from HDFury) that will play the part of a TV in creating this eARC signal, I kinda thought that this product would do the same. Near as I can tell, it only forwards the signal created by other devices. I even upgraded my cables just in case... no luck.

So all the pieces are there, but whoever made this either didn’t give it any thought or I have been using my sound bar incorrectly. See, I wanted a switch that would allow me to connect my sound bar to both my Apple TV and my Blu-ray player. You see, my tv is a Vizio, and they are really bad at… well, everything, but in this case, it’s bad at being able to tell when to use the bad built-in speakers and when to use the sound bar. Always use the sound bar. The thing is, the other thing Vizio struggles with is passing audio from one device, i.e. the Blu-ray player or the Apple TV. It wants to convert it to PCM even though it’s capable of handling True HD & Dolby Atmos. So I want to buy bass the tv altogether for the audio. However, it’s a 4K UHD, and while Vizio isn’t the best, the picture quality is on point when the devices connected are allowed to do their thing. This switch’s setup is so weird for some reason; it’s designed to plug one sound bar into another. Why, I do not know. A sound bar as a media source is not a thing so far as I know. I think Roku has a streaming device built into a sound bar, but why would you need to plug that sound bar into another sound bar? Who Daisy chains their sound bars? So it won’t connect the audio from the Blu-ray player & Apple TV to the sound bar and the tv at the same time. I managed to find a connection that worked; however, the switch regularly loses signal, and that degrades the picture quality. The remote is cheap and came with a dead battery and does better at turning my fan on than it does changing which signal to send to the tv. The price would be amazing if it worked regularly and well, but sadly, it doesn’t. I’m going to give one more day, and if it still is so intermittent, any end of day tomorrow, I’ll return it. I wish the expensive one Orei made worked, but that there’s just as bad. Wish I could find something reasonably priced that actually worked.

note I'm reviewing the "2x1" not the "4x1" but as far as I can tell the 4x just has more non-ARC inputs. ok here's my setup. i have a streaming stick that transmits Dolby Atmos. My TV supports ARC but not eARC. So I need this box to act like a newer TV, pass the high def digital signal through to my Atmos soundbar so it sees eARC. It does not.The box does seem to send "normal" HDMI video + sound from my HD device to the TV and soundbar. Which I can do without the box, this is exactly what ARC does on a TV. Connect multiple inputs to the TV, your soundbar to the ARC and voila.So I think this box works best for sending video to an HDMI monitor without ARC/eARC connection, and the audio to a soundbar.The little instruction manual shows two use cases:- case 1: 4k source video output to 4K TV, audio can output to ARC/eARC soundbar etc. This SOUNDS exactly like what I'm trying to do. This almost works, but my stick (input device) doesn't detect the audio capabilities of the soundbar, the other "input". Instead it detects the capabilities of the TV/monitor, the output. Why is the soundbar considered an input? I understand ARC is bidirectional and some soundbars are input devices as well. The idea that it is an input may be fundamentally why I don't understand how this is supposed to work.- case 2: streaming content from TV, TV ARC/eARC outputs to ARC/eARC soundbar etc. This sounds good also, if I'm watching TV or a smart app on my TV I'd like to hear it from my soundbar. I couldn't get this to work with my ARC output.The documentation does not mention what the eARC ON/OFF button does. I'd have to guess it would switch the output to be the input instead.Case 1 would be great if it worked better for me, case 2 I expect to be limited because it's using the ARC output from the TV.

I bought this to fix lip sync issues from Apple TV -> projector -> Sonos Arc due to poor implementation of eARC bypass on projector. No luck. From what I can tell this does not replace an HDFury Arcana. Shame, as the price was right.

This is a decent HDMI switch but it didn't seem to work with my Xbox one S. Worked with everything else though!