VGA To HDmi Converter Adapter
Posted by admin in Aluratek Reader Tuesday, 26 January 2010 04:11 3 Comments
- VGA to HDMI Converter Adapter 1080P Support
Product Description
With the Aluratek AVH100F VGA to HDMI 1080p Adapter w/Audio, extend your desktop with high resolution dual display support! Want to increase your efficiency at home or at the office? The Aluratek AVH100F VGA to HDMI 1080p Adapter w/Audio is the perfect solution. The Aluratek AVH100F VGA to HDMI 1080p Adapter w/Audio converts the VGA outputs from your computer to HDMI with resolution up to 1080p. This will allow you to view data across multiple screens or with displ… More >>
I purchased the first Aluratek AVH100F on Dec 2, 2009 through amazon. I used it with two different laptops. At first the audio just had an annoying hum/buzz, then after a week of use the audio started having “gaps” of 1-2 seconds every 10-15 seconds. This made the unit unusable. I returned it and asked for a replacement hoping the first AVH100F was just a quality control issue.
The second AVH100F was even worse. Right out of the packaging the audio was not only noisy but distorted to the point of not even being able to understand speech. For this return, I’ll ask for a refund.
Both laptops I used it on only had “speaker/headphone out” jacks. It’s *possible* that the first unit may have worked better, at least before the audio gaps appeared, if connected to a real “line out” jack such as are frequently available on higher-end desktop computers.
Video – be prepared to deal with “overscan” issues. For example, I was using the AVH100F with my Mitsubishi 73″ 1080P TV and the signal received from the AVH100F was too “big” to be displayed on the TV.
Rating: 1 / 5
Worked with no hassles for me, at 1080p, and the display looks pretty good (on a Mitsubishi WD60C9).
On Fedora 12 with an Intel X4500 (on a Lenovo T400) the TV was auto-detected without needing an xorg.conf – i.e. plug-and-plug. The same laptop booted to Windows Vista also worked fine. An older HTPC box running MythBuntu 9.10 does seem to require an xorg.conf with an appropriate mode line.
Rating: 5 / 5
There is not much to this item, basically plug & play. It would only work at 640×480 with my system. A 57″ inch tv showed up on my wife’s top as a 7″ “Sony” monitor, my guess is because I went through the HDMI port on the Sony STR-DN1000 R. I tried several changes but rather than use the laptop 1440×900 setting it would switch down to the 640×480, making it useless. Perhaps connected directly to the HDTV would be better. Ease of use was pretty good, but overall I was not satisfied with the results.
Rating: 2 / 5