Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This little brushed aluminum splitter is amazing for various reasons. First off, if you want to use it as a small extender it works just fine and doesn't require external power. Please do note that I only added another three feet of HDMI cable on top of the 12 foot of cable I was already running. Secondly, it's incredibly easy to set up and use. I tested it with an SNES Mini and my Dreamcast's VGA -> HDMI adapter. The little button on top lets you switch between sources and the green LED shows you which is selected. Super simple and super fast. Now, the instruction manual does in fact tell you to limit the input cable to 5 meters (about 16 feet) and the output to another 5 meters. HDMI itself can go about 50 feet normally and the reason for this difference is since this device does not take external power, any HDMI signals going through it, ESPECIALLY if you're splitting it, will get weaker. I feel that for most people this shouldn't be a problem but if you plan on running devices from different rooms you might actually run into signal integrity issues if you use this. BUT for most folks you shouldn't run into any problems. All in all I really like this little device and it suits my needs pretty well (needing to switch inputs). I did a small test of splitting output and it does a wonderful job, although I don't really have a need for this function it is nice to know that it is truly a bi-directional switch. Photos attached to show that there's no blurring or image quality lost as it passes through the device!