Answered Xbox One X Switching between 4k TV and 1080p Monitor

CASE ONE

Hi, I have a 4k TV in the living room and my PC monitor quite close by. I want to be able to switch the Xbox over to the 1080p monitor when the main TV is in use by the family.

So I know there are HDMI switches out there but will the Xbox auto detect the display when I switch between the two displays?

Does anyone else use this kind of set-up? There must be!
Thought I'd ask before I go and buy a splitter.

Cheers,
CASE ONE

Joe Fernand

Have you confirmed the XB1X will work on the PC Monitor?

Joe

CASE ONE

Xbox One will work with any display that has an HDMI in socket.

I wanted to know if switching between displays with different resolutions would be automatic.

It does! and I do not have to re-enable any additional xbox display settings when going back to 4K. This is good!

BUT..
I was using this passive HDMI switch. it didn't work correctly when XBox output to TV at 4k, picture kept breaking up intermittently. Worked fine when XBox outputting 1080p.
Might be a dodgy switch. I'm going to borrow a mates identical switch to check.

I should be getting this powered HDMI switch delivered today. I'll let myself know the results on here later...

Joe Fernand

'Xbox One will work with any display that has an HDMI in socket' - really

Passive Bi-directional HDMI device - always a lottery with these devices.

Powered 1x2 Distribution Amp - did you note the device you link to does not support HDR! Also with it being a Distribution Amp you may find it reads the EDID of both Displays even when one Display is in Standby.

Joe

CASE ONE

So I've finally got round to trying out the powered splitter and it wasn't up to job. Think you are right about the EDID. Stuck at 1080 on both screens.

I borrowed a friends switch which is identical to the first one I bought and it worked. My xbox auto detected the two different screens but more importantly the Xbox retained all the 4k and HDR settings so I didn't have go back in and enable them again which is what I really wanted to know in the first place.
I've returned my switch for replacement.

I think I needed a proper switch not a splitter to do this with two different screen resolutions.
If you have two screens with the same resolution a splitter will be fine.

djbone

Thanks for posting this.  Good to see experience of one of these that works. I went through quite a few recently before more or less giving up!

Hope you don't mind me asking on your thread, but I wondered if anyone reading this has found one that can successfully switch 4K at 60Hz? (the one linked does 1080p at 60Hz but 4K at 30) - I'm about to get a new 4K monitor and would like to take advantage of the new unlocked refresh rates coming to the X1X

CASE ONE

Hi,

I've made a bit of a boo boo in my haste to post my findings...

This switch does not work when HDR is enabled!

I was doing my tests on the Xbox One X display settings menu so I could see when the console auto detected the resolution etc. The dashboard isn't output at 4k or HDR!

When I fired up a game with 4K HDR last night I got all the issues I had before, artifacts, picture break-up and total blank screens.

It works fine in 4k with everything else enabled but not HDR.

Anyone recommend a HDMI switch?!

next010

This HDMI switch works with 4K HDR and HDMI ARC, personally tested with Xbox One X.

CASE ONE

Thanks next010 but I need to split my Xbox HDMI out into two so I can switch between displays not add more input options to a display.

My wish list for this device is:
Small
Passive (not powered)
Physical switch/button
Full fat HDMI 2.2
4K HDR compatible
60hz
Cheap!

next010

Ah missed that, I don't think your going to find something passive but this unit may work, it lists [email protected], HDCP 2.2 and HDR support.

Be sure to enable the YCC 422 option under Xbox advanced video settings.

Beyond the cheap 2 in 1 output devices your looking at HDMI matrix for cloning the output to multiple outputs and they tend to be more expensive.