HDMI Splitter

[JkSpinner]

I have recently purchased a 4K TV, however my Denon AVR does not support 4K pass through.   My new DVD player has two HDMI outputs so I can still run the audio directly to the AVR, however for most other sources, I am forced to use the ARC from the TV to the AVR, and I really hate some of the niggly features of ARC.  Under ARC, the TV is not used as a pass through, instead it does the processing, and send a 5 channel only signal to the amp, which the amp is unable to upscale to 7 channel.  Also when playing a DVD with audio directly to the AVR, if I pause the movie to get a bev, ARC will then take over the the audio duties, so it switches from 7 channel back to 5 channel, so I am forced to go into the settings and turn the ARC control off!  Am  I able to use a 4K HDMI splitter from my Apple TV, 1 HDMI into the splitter, then 1 HDMI to the TV for picture, the other HDMI to the AVR for audio.  I have seen that most HDMI splitters 2 into 1, however I am looking for 1 into 2 capability.  I would prefer not to use ARC.

I could put off a new AVR purchase for a couple years then

[Guest Old Man Rubber]

Most of the cheap 1 input / 2 output HDMI splitters on Ebay will  run into issues with the audio - more than likely the DVD player will drop your audio and video output over HDMI down to the least capable device so more than likely you will end up in exactly the same boat i.e. the audio output will be whatever the TV can do, not the AVR.

 

However, depending on your DVD player (blu ray player?) you might be able to tell it to send the high def audio out one of the HDMI ports and drop the audio quality on the other one which should solve the problem.  Have a dig through the settings and see if there is a way to treat both outputs differently.