It's not a switcher but a splitter. With a switcher you can only output to one display at a time (a,b,c or d). With this you can output to several tv's at the same time. I imagine this type of device will eventually replace units such as RF modulators for people trying to feed several TV's from one source. I will wait for future pricing and just keep using my rf modulator for now.
Not only did you get the equipment type wrong, you got the market wrong too. Gefen looks like a specialty company mostly serving a niche in commercial installations. In commercial installations, they shouldn't be using cheap consumer devices if they can avoid it. It looks to me that Gefen is a pretty solid commercial grade device, with a steel enclosure and rather than a cheap plastic shell, and their products have serial control too.
Plus, there's probably no consumer market for a 5:1 or 10:1 splitter, not only no competition, there's no chance for economies of scale of a consumer market either.
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$500+ for an HDMI switcher? Bah, I just checked out a switcher from Monoprice that's 1.3 compliant for less than $100!
It's not a switcher but a splitter. With a switcher you can only output to one display at a time (a,b,c or d). With this you can output to several tv's at the same time. I imagine this type of device will eventually replace units such as RF modulators for people trying to feed several TV's from one source. I will wait for future pricing and just keep using my rf modulator for now.
Not only did you get the equipment type wrong, you got the market wrong too. Gefen looks like a specialty company mostly serving a niche in commercial installations. In commercial installations, they shouldn't be using cheap consumer devices if they can avoid it. It looks to me that Gefen is a pretty solid commercial grade device, with a steel enclosure and rather than a cheap plastic shell, and their products have serial control too.
Plus, there's probably no consumer market for a 5:1 or 10:1 splitter, not only no competition, there's no chance for economies of scale of a consumer market either.