What is an HDMI Splitter | How to setup Multiple Displays

[Music] [Applause] [Music] how you guys doing today mark franks from plenty of gadgets.com guys today i'm going to review the kilio now hopefully i'm saying that correctly the khalil hdmi splitter now this is an hdmi splitter not to be confused with an hdmi adapter you know a lot of people get these two confused when they want to buy the adapter they end up buying the splitter or vice versa but it's more common when somebody needs an adapter to extend their monitor they end up buying an hdmi splitter on accident remember this is an extender it's a this right here is a usbc tip or you have a regular usb a tip and it goes into your computer and you have two hdmi ports here and it extends your monitors right it has it does have a duplicate function on there or your on your computer but it's made to extend your monitors this on the other hand is made to duplicate your monitors or have several monitors with the same screen based on the device that you're feeding into this splitter so this is to extend your monitor so remember when you want to have dual monitors you want to extend your monitors you need to get an hdmi adapter but this on the other hand this is a splitter so when do you use an hdmi splitter well right now this this here has four hdmi outputs and it has one hdmi input so you can use this let's say you have a business you have a restaurant you have a barber shop just at home you want to just run multiple screens with the same thing on it you can do that um you have a presentation to give you want multiple tvs or multiple monitor monitors going at the same time you can you can hook your gaming system up to it you can hook your set top box or you have direct tv or any type of cable system you can hook up to it or you um or you can hook up your projector or any device you want you can hook up up to four tvs or four monitors to this display and the good thing is they'll play video in audio so and i'll show you guys here in a second i have three monitors in the back and i have a blu-ray player and i'm gonna hook the blu-ray player up to this one input in the back here i'm sorry in the front and then i'm gonna have three hdmi cables go to these three monitors and it's gonna play that screen i mean that blue that blu-ray movie at the same time so that's what we want so remember an hdmi splitter plays your videos at the same time it's a duplicate all right so it doesn't extend it's a duplicate and i'm going to show you guys here i'm going to show you how it's how it's done here in a second now this splitter i've been playing around with it for a little bit it's it's actually pretty cool it doesn't really get hot i had three these three monitors up there up hooked up to it for about two hours um it uh indicates the light it indicates which monitors are plugged in in the back this can go up to 4k now if you're if you're hooking up an xbox or a ps3 and it's uh it can do up to 4k uh 30 hertz and below it does not do 4k 60 hertz so if you're hooking your xbox x or your ps5 and you have it set for 4k 60hz it's not going to work so make sure you go to your your game systems settings and make sure you go to 4k 30 hertz or below and then you should be able to duplicate your monitor duplicate your screens okay um the good thing about this you know like i said before you have a restaurant or you can have you can have four different tvs going you can have some type of input maybe a dvd player going to four different tvs you have four more you can have your set top box going to four different tvs uh this does come and you can get bigger out you can get more outputs more hdmi outputs so you can add more tvs so that's pretty good that's a good uh that's a good deal there but this is four outputs uh and what else did i want to say about this oh yeah so this thing the good thing is if you have a big if you have a big business or your house is big for the input of your device your input this can go to 100 feet tops 100 feet so you can do 40 feet so from your device to this to uh this splitter here you can have 40 feet from the device to the splitter now the outputs from the outputs to you from this outlet to your output device can be 60 feet so it's up to 100 feet and i'm talking about the hdmi length so from your input device whether it could be your set top box your ps5 your xbox your um your dvd blu-ray player it can go from your from that device to this splitter 40 feet hdmi cable and then from there the outputs can go to your output devices your hdmi cable can be up to 60 feet that's so that's a lot of hdmi cables and and that can just go around your business or wherever you need it to if you have a barber shop you just have all your tvs and like i said before the great thing is it plays audio in video at the same time all right now this is not to be confused and i want you guys to be confused that it since it has four outputs you can play all you can play um play all your displays on one monitor no it's not backwards like that is to play your input your input device which could be a game system or or some type of tv system is to play that on on four different monitors i have three in the back but all together four different monitors and let me guys let me show you guys uh how it works all right guys so let me go ahead and show you how this hdmi splitter operates so the first example in simulation i want to do is i want to hook up my 4k blu-ray player now i've had this a number of years and hey it means it still works so let's go ahead and hook it up i'm gonna show you guys how this thing works so i'm gonna go ahead and plug the hdmi splitter in you'll see a red light that indicates that it's on and what i'm gonna do is i have my hdmi cord hooked up into the back of this blu-ray player i'm gonna go ahead and turn it on i have a movie in there right now and i'm gonna hook this the end of this hdmi cable into the input outlet here so i'm hook it into the input outlet now what i'm going to do is i'm going to hook up every every one of these monitors here so as i hook them up you'll see a menu come up on each on each monitor so let's go ahead and hook them up i'm going to start an output one i'm gonna go to output or i have output two down here i'm gonna output two then i'm going to output three so this is how it's going to look if you guys can see that the camera i have three of them plugged into one two and three one two and three and i have the input going into the the input and they'll say in here and as you can see i must have hit something there we go now as you can see each monitor is playing the exact same thing right each one has the same thing on it here so let's go ahead and play the movie i have uh man on fire in here it's an older movie and i can hear it i can hear it on these two i'm not sure if this dell has audio on it on the monitor but can definitely hear it coming out of these two monitors here so that's a great thing you know not only does it have video but it also has it also has audio so that's good right and and again you know you if you have a restaurant a barbershop small electronic store you can definitely use this all right this is they'll be definitely beneficial and beneficial and useful to you all right now um i got this on amazon for i believe about 18 it's going to be under 20 right now so it's a it's a great steal it's very cheap i'll put this in the links below so let's go ahead and go to a different scene so you guys can see the videos so it looks pretty good let me get out you guys wait so you can see that screen screens looks good even if you're in your house and you want to just do you want just have duplicate screens one in the living room and one in the in your room just playing the same thing you can do that as well now this hdmi explainer does like i said come in different sizes it can come in a larger size i believe the next size up is going to be eight hdmi hdmi outputs instead of four all right so let's go ahead i'm gonna show you guys the next simulation i'm gonna show you guys uh how to hook it up to i have a um a surface laptop surface pro 7 plus i'm going to show you guys how that looks connected to a surface pro laptop all right well technically it's a tablet slash laptop let's go so here's my surface 7 plus surface pro 7 plus basically guys to make a long story short this is a tablet tablet looks pretty good that's also a laptop so i just put this on here and it's a pretty much full-fledged laptop i actually replaced my ipad in my uh my other laptop with this so it's pretty cool device all right so let me show you guys how it works with the hdmi splitter so uh the splitter is on so what i'm going to do is i don't have an hdmi port on this 7 plus pro so i'm going to use the the usbc adapter here that has two hdmi ports so i'm going to go ahead and plug it in here and i have a shorter hdmi cable that i'm going to use short hdmi cable here so i'm going to plug this in one and i'm going to use this to go to go into the input of the splitter so i'm going to plug it in here all right now i'm going to plug in all my monitors and let's see what pops up someone let's go ahead and get it done this is very intuitive very simple so let's go ahead and get this one down here and you should see them pop up on the screen as i plug them in that one there and that one there all right so here we have it we have three monitors with the same thing on it now interestingly interestingly enough it extends the monitor so it does extend it acts like this is the main display and it is an extension display but the extension is on all three displays it's not like it's extended it on this one and then you have more real estate here and you have more real estate there no it extends it like it's just two monitors i mean two um yeah two monitors this display in the next display but that is a duplicate here so let's say if i want to take this icon i'll take canva icon and let's move it over here if i move it over here it's going to move it on every one of these displays because they are duplicating the screen so it's like one extension like one monitor and that monitor is every one of these is duplicate on every one of these displays so it's not a an extension per se now if you get an ext if you get a um like this an hdmi i'm sorry a usb c adapter or hdmi adapter then it can you have three monitors then it will extend it'll be more real estate you can take this here and you can keep on going to different monitors you have more display real estate but this is basically all it's doing is just duplicating your monitors but here we do have and it does extend from the main one so here you have your main i have my main icons on my surface pro have the main icons now the duplicates i'll just bring that over here and all the duplicates do the same thing they just duplicate the screen an extended screen so i hope you guys got that do you have any questions just leave your questions below and i'll i'll be happy to explain that more it is extending from the main display but it's it's duplicating that extension all right so that's the best way kind of to explain that all right but it's very easy to set up is uh very intuitive guys if you just want to play a movie from your laptop and you have multiple displays that you want to play it on you can do it this way you have any presentations or anything like that it's very easy it's easy stupid easy so that's pretty much it for the simulations i did the blu-ray player and i did the um i went ahead and did the surface pro 7 plus so sounds good well all right guys that is the kelio hdmi splitter has the four ports in the back i believe this is a good buy like like i said before guys you have you know a business a small electronic store you have a barber shop restaurant or you just want to play duplicate monitors or your tvs this is the device to get all right now do note that if you have um this one this can play up to 4k but if your monitor or your tv has a different if you have them all here but they have a different resolution do know that it's going to play the lowest resolution so i have all let's say i have all my monitors or tvs let's say these two right here are 1080p but this monitor our tv is 720p well this device is going to play the lowest resolution so make sure that your your monitors or your tv resolutions are congruent with each other otherwise you'll just play the lowest resolution so if you have a 1080p monitor or 1080p tv make sure it's 1080p all the way around okay just want to let you guys know that but other than that guys this this is a great device i would definitely recommend this if you want to extend i'm sorry not extend duplicate duplicate your monitors or your tvs um with the device that you're using all right so that's pretty much it guys again you can catch that on amazon for under 20 i mean that is uh uh a terrific price of what you're getting and i believe they have ones that are that goes up to eight out hdmi outputs and i believe it could be 12 or or 16 but i'll put that in the link below guys if you like this channel please hit that like button and subscribe to my channel there'll be many many more videos guys thank you for today you guys have a blessed day i'll catch you in the next one

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Published: Sat Jul 30 2022