Sony A1 not full fat hdmi

Terminatort4

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hi now sky q has introduced 10 bit colour I have discovered that only hdmi ports 2 and 3 are compatible with this system on the Sony A1 oled. I have a nvidia shield in number 2 and my surround sound system in number 3 which is the arc hdmi. Is there a spliter I can purchase so that the sky q box can plug into hdmi 2 or 3 as well. Been looking on amazon but not if any of them would do the job.

As the ones I been looking at appear to be for sending the same image to more than 1 screen.

Any help or advice in this matter would be greatly appreciated thanks.
 
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If your surround system is basic 5.1 switch it over to the optical output from the TV to free up the HDMI port on the TV. It's one of the gripes I have with my XF90.

Also look in to a harmony remote if the reason to keep HDMI arc is that you control the sound over bravia link.
 
Terminatort4 said:
Is there a spliter I can purchase so that the sky q box can plug into hdmi 2 or 3 as well.

As the ones I been looking at appear to be for sending the same image to more than 1 screen.
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That's what splitters do. They take one source signal, then split it so that there are multiple versions to go to two or.more screens.

Where you have only a single HDR-compatible socket what you need is a SWITCH. This allows you to connect several sources to.one input socket on the TV and then switch between them. The clue is in the name, but so very many folk seem to get this muddled up now to the point where the resellers started deliberately to use the wrong description to catch those looking for the right product but by the wrong name.

Search for SWITCH if you want 2 or 3 source to one TV input socket.
 
You've not mentioned what type of sound system you have, if you have a big and (that supports hdmi 2.0, I'd run everything through that, unless you're running a supercomputer that can output 4k at 120hz.

Edit, I'm sure if you go for a switch you'd need to make sure it's 2.0 or 2.1, but I thought hdmi switches were mega expensive (I've not actually checked as I've never needed one).
 
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