Review Details
ARIES Prime Wireless HD Video Transmitter & Receiver System
Product Rating:
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Product Review (submitted on October 29, 2015):
I admit it. I was skeptical when I bought this. But I was desperate. God knows why, but
the builder of our condominium chose to locate the cable on a wall that would never be
used to locate a TV, with the only obvious TV location no where near it. Result: long
coaxial cable running along the baseboard, inside a closet over the floor, and then back
along the baseboard to reach the TV. Needless to say, my wife was not happy. And we all
know what that means. So, fingers crossed, I bought this as "the solution." Well, lo and
behold, the thing actually worked! The distance as the crow flies from the transmitter
attached to the cable box (which I relocated on top of a bookshelf) to the small square
receiver plugged onto HDMI 1 on the back of the TV is about 10 feet. Picture quality is
excellent - true HDMI - and is difficult to distinguish from the picture quality with a
direct cable connection. Also, I was a bit concerned about potential interference cause by
a wireless router located about 8 to 10 feet from the Nyrius transmitter (on the website
they warn you in small print that this can sometimes occur), but there was no
interference. One minor caveat: the transmitter is a "dongle" which is plugged into the
HDMI output on my cable box, but it requires its own power supply via a separate USB
cable. Fortunately, my cable box has a USB port, and I plugged the USB cable, which is
provided by Nyrius in the box, into that USB port for power. However, if the HDMI source
you plan to transmit from does not have a USB port, then you will have to use one of those
little transformers that converts USB to 110 volt standard AC (like you use with a cell
phone or Kindle charger). Nyrius does not provide one of those little transformers, so if
you need one you will have to buy one or steal one from one of your other devices.
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