Originally Posted by VinceHoffman
I wonder if a good powered HDMI switch/repeater like the HDMax 421 [snip] would work as "the active sink" (whatever that is???) in place of a pricey scaler?
I *think* that the 421 is a pure switch that does not perform any HDMI negotiation (this is why it supports HDMI v1.3 even though it came out before v1.3 silicon was available). In other words, it can't act as a sink.

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