Tell me what are you trying to record from
dvd ? sky ? other ?
With the splitter you take hdmi lead from, i.e. sky to input of sptitter. From out put of splitter to hdmi in of x20, other output from splitter goes to tv or amp.. you will need two hdmi 2.00 leads of good quality.and of course the splitter
aS I said YOU WILL ONLY NEED THE SPLITTER IF RECORDING FROM PROTECTED MATERIAL. hdcp