Review Details

ARIES Prime Wireless HD Video Transmitter & Receiver System

Product Rating:

Product Review (submitted on October 29, 2015):

I am thoroughly impressed with this thing. I had initially snaked a ridiculously long HDMI

cable around my living room from my TV to mirror my 15" Macbook Retina. It worked fine,

but the cord was very finicky if it was touched at all on the Macbook side. I looked into

these adapters and was set back by the price, but I managed to get a really good deal from

a third party seller here on Amazon which helped me to take the plunge.

Simply, it just works! I'm not one for directions, so at first I plugged it into the HDMI

port and was wondering why it wasn't working, but I quickly realized that it doesn't get

power from the HDMI port, so I had to plug in the USB Cable. Once I did that, boom, it

worked instantly with no issues. I literally notice no difference from this device and my

hard wired connection. I walked around my apartment a little bit and it didn't lose the

signal at all. I walked into my office, left my laptop in there and came back out and

noticed the signal didn't noticeably degrade at all. My office is about 20 or 25 feet away

(around a corner and down the hallway).

So, this is as advertised. The only recommendation for improvement is that it received its

power from the HDMI port, but I'm sure that is simply a technical limitation due to the

small amount of power that an HDMI port supply's compared to USB ports.

One thing I noticed is that when my Macbook went to sleep, it didn't restablish the

connection. I had to unplug the HDMI transmitter and plug it back into the laptop for it

to work again. This doesn't warrant a star deduction in my opinion though.
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