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fuzz092888

fuzz092888

Audioholic Warlord
Usb3 to hdmi? I have had various levels of success with such things
The displaylink website said that it might be a little sketchy as they were still working on some bugs. However, I downloaded the beta version of the latest software and so far it works. The PQ isn't as good as plugging directly in, but I'll mostly be doing e-mail and document editing on the third monitor that will get plugged into that so I don't think it will bother me.

The Asus gets here Monday and the Amazon employee I talked to last night said that the dual Ergotron display mount I was looking at might be back in stock next week and possibly on a Holiday deal as well. I won't hold my breathe, but that would be pretty sweet if his information was correct.
 
BoredSysAdmin

BoredSysAdmin

Audioholic Slumlord
Today bought Amazon Fire TV Stick for $29 - used, but essentially like brand new in box. Used maybe once.
So far - big thumbs up !!
 
BoredSysAdmin

BoredSysAdmin

Audioholic Slumlord
The displaylink website said that it might be a little sketchy as they were still working on some bugs. However, I downloaded the beta version of the latest software and so far it works. The PQ isn't as good as plugging directly in, but I'll mostly be doing e-mail and document editing on the third monitor that will get plugged into that so I don't think it will bother me.

The Asus gets here Monday and the Amazon employee I talked to last night said that the dual Ergotron display mount I was looking at might be back in stock next week and possibly on a Holiday deal as well. I won't hold my breathe, but that would be pretty sweet if his information was correct.
Like I said, PQ varies. you might want to try a different adapter or resolution. reducing the later can have huge effect.
 
fuzz092888

fuzz092888

Audioholic Warlord
Like I said, PQ varies. you might want to try a different adapter or resolution. reducing the later can have huge effect.
I'm going to hang onto this adapter for now, mainly because it was cheap. Eventually I was planning on switching to the Belkin hub so that I could plug the sammy in via HDMI and then the Asus in via HDMI and then there will be no adapters at all.

Thoughts?
 
j_garcia

j_garcia

Audioholic Jedi


Also picked up Oblivion and Blade dirt cheap, all at Frys.
 
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BoredSysAdmin

BoredSysAdmin

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I'm going to hang onto this adapter for now, mainly because it was cheap. Eventually I was planning on switching to the Belkin hub so that I could plug the sammy in via HDMI and then the Asus in via HDMI and then there will be no adapters at all.

Thoughts?
Which pc you have now? Is it Macbook Pro? Which gen? Which ports you have on it?
 
BoredSysAdmin

BoredSysAdmin

Audioholic Slumlord
Today bought Amazon Fire TV Stick for $29 - used, but essentially like brand new in box. Used maybe once.
So far - big thumbs up !!
Btw: TV Stick with sideloaded Kodi (xmbc) = runs freaking awesome! Almost as fast any my atom box.
 
walter duque

walter duque

Audioholic Samurai
I don't know what it is about these watches, they're only in the $50.00 range but I am getting hooked on them. I think I am up to #6 now (with different face of course). My wife keeps telling me "What the hell is wrong with you, you got all these watches and you still don't know what time it is"

 
Lulimet

Lulimet

Full Audioholic
Wife got her Christmas present early this year. I bought her an Ipad Air 2. They were $100 off at Best Buy.

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fuzz092888

fuzz092888

Audioholic Warlord
Sorry if you posted this elsewhere...how do you have all of our monitors hooked up right now?
Mac monitor - miniDP, Samsung - HDMI, and the plan for the third was USB to HDMI
 
fuzz092888

fuzz092888

Audioholic Warlord
Ah. I take it that your connected Thunderbolt device doesn't include an output?
You know, I forgot about the daisy chaining aspect of thunderbolt. I'll have to look on the back of the raid storage unit to see if it'll work.
 
Adam

Adam

Audioholic Jedi
You know, I forgot about the daisy chaining aspect of thunderbolt. I'll have to look on the back of the raid storage unit to see if it'll work.
Hopefully you can. I've daisy chained a monitor from the output on a Thunderbolt SATA dock with no issues at all.

The one thing that I wonder about is the description for the MB Pro says that it supports dual displays, not three displays.
 
BoredSysAdmin

BoredSysAdmin

Audioholic Slumlord
Some had success with active minidp to dvi adapter from accell
 
fuzz092888

fuzz092888

Audioholic Warlord
Hopefully you can. I've daisy chained a monitor from the output on a Thunderbolt SATA dock with no issues at all.

The one thing that I wonder about is the description for the MB Pro says that it supports dual displays, not three displays.
Technically the official macbook pro specs for my model say dual external displays along with the built in retina display, if I'm reading this right. Everymac says that up to 4 displays are possible, but they tested this with a 2012 model and it began to overheat. I just installed a fan control/temperature monitor to see what's going on when I have both and/or all 3 monitors running.

On my old MBP I ran the built in monitor along with two external displays. It worked well, but it did get hot. I wouldn't have tried to run 4 displays. With the current setup, I'll be running the 3 big displays and close the MBP lid to stick to 3 displays only.
 
sawzalot

sawzalot

Audioholic Samurai
My cyber Monday / Christmas / Birthday Present to myself.
Samsungs 64 inch F8500 Plasma , last years VE shootout winner. I will retire the Pioneer 500M to the Master Suite and go 14 inches bigger on the diagonal , It is on its way home now. I made sure I went with an authorized seller for the two year warranty.
I know this bear is old school and discontinued but I just cant sink my teeth into the LED sets not even the 4K variety.

http://www.samsung.com/us/video/tvs/PN64F8500AFXZA
 
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