Archive for the 'Video' Category
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
The PC to TV converter, part SW-4262 comes with quite a few cables. Mark has been good enough to draw us up a diagram of how to connect it all. With all those cables, note that you only need to connect the S-video cable OR the composite (yellow) RCA cable, not both.
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
We recently launched a feature that allows customers to review products they have purchased.
A lot of customers have taken the time to provide reviews of the USB to DVI adapter - if you have any questions about whether your application will work you may be able to find somebody else who has done the same [...]
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
When it comes to video equipment it is no secret that we love Gefen. Sure, we sell Gefen stuff so we’re biased, but we sell a lot of brands and Gefen is consistently one of our favorites.
Here are 5 reasons we recommend so many Gefen solutions:
1) Scope of Product Line: Gefen is one of the [...]
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Aside from the late-night Tokyo drift race scene, few things are both as exciting and intimidating as the kill-or-be-killed world of HDMI splitters. Neophytes to the dangerous discipline of digital displays are often completely paralyzed with fear when confronted with the inescapable choice between passive HDMI splitters and active HDMI splitters. In fact, the confusion surrounding this [...]
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Its time we stepped back and allowed ourselves a little pause to think about an old friend of ours, the touch screen monitor. You’re probably thinking ‘what does he mean by old‘? It is a little known fact that the patents for touch screen monitors were made during the same period that the [...]
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
12/17/07 Update: The newest version of the driver (available here) now supports Windows Vista Aero effects. You do not need to do anything with your hardware - simply download and install this newest driver and you’ll be running Vista Aero on your additional displays in no time.
Note: We got a very interesting and informative comment [...]
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
A lot of people want to add another monitor to their laptop - up until now the best choice was a VTBook. The VTBook is a PCMCIA card that gives you a true digital DVI port out - very cool, but also pretty expensive ($230) and it only offers 32 MB onboard RAM.
Sewell, however, now [...]
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Monday, August 20th, 2007
As you may know products that are made to connect, split, switch or do anything with HDMI can be very expensive. The technology being reletivly new also makes us question weather a cheap product will work well or not. I was recently testing an HDMI switch for a customer and it was a 5 port switch so [...]
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Monday, August 6th, 2007
There are a few things that you may want to check when using the PC to TV converter.
First is that the VGA cable from the computer is connected to the right port on the 150095. The black 15 pin VGA port on the converter box is the port that connects to the computer. The blue [...]
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Thursday, July 19th, 2007
Lately we’ve seen decent demand for ATSC Set-Top Tuner boxes - basically a tuner that will help you catch the free HDTV waves floating around in the air and show them on your new HDTV.
Many HDTV’s still don’t come with ATSC tuners so this is the perfect companion - it costs $140 but could [...]
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