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ARIES Prime Wireless HD Video Transmitter & Receiver System

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Product Review (submitted on October 29, 2015):

I'm always skeptical of the first wave or two of a technology advance and was preparing myself for disappointment over wireless HDMI, just in case, but the gadget nerd in me couldn't resist. However, after a month of use, it works as advertised. My situation was I wanted to transfer my PC monitor to the big screen in the living room occasionally, and running a hard line would be rather involved. Adding wireless keyboard, mouse and 360 controller (for Steam games) and I'm in business. Game play, surely the most demanding activity, has been no problem at all. Documentation is sparse, but it's pretty simple; the dongle is the send unit, and the box is the receive unit (you might think it would be the other way around since other dongles like Chromecast are the receive). Plug the dongle into the device you want to send pictures from, the box into the monitor you want to see them on. Be aware that in this case your PC is likely to see the second monitor as a sound device, and you'll need to go into control panel>sound and select the 2nd monitor as the default sound device each time you use it (and switch back when done), or you'll have no sound. The only disappointment would be strength of signal. If you have to send the signal through more than one floor/wall, it's likely not to make it. In my case the distance to the monitor is short (12 feet or so) through a floor. Very rarely, but occasionally, the signal will drop for a few seconds. We tried testing on another PC in another bedroom, distance about 15 feet but two walls in between and the signal doesn't reach at all. So, this limits the usable applications a bit. In a line-of-sight situation it probably can do 30 feet, but in the real world we'll almost always be working through at least one wall or floor, so you'd want to assess your circumstances carefully in terms of distance and obstructions.
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