ARIES PRO

I do not usually write reviews, but I had to chime in on this cool little gadget. Regardless of what other reviewers have posted about whether or not this broadcasts a "truly uncompressed" signal doesn't really matter much if you are a simple home or business user that simply needs your laptop screen to be broadcasted to a TV screen with HDMI input. THIS ARIES PRO unit DOES THE JOB and DOES IT BEAUTIFULLY!! Pulling it out of the box, I simply plugged in the transmitter to my HDMI port on my laptop, plugged in the USB cable from the transmitter to an open USB port, then plugged in the receiver to an available wall outlet for power (110v AC) and plugged the HDMI cable in from the receiver to the back of the TV, changed the "source" (or "input" on some TV's) to HDMI, and bammo!! There my laptop screen showed up, bright and crystal clear! I had a regular HDMI cable running from the laptop to the TV, and I truly honestly have to say that I do not see a difference in quality! The picture is bright and clear, and there was absolutely NO LAG TIME, whether browsing the internet, watching videos on YouTube, or watching movies on Netflix. This unit from Nyrius performed flawlessly. So seriously, folks, if you are considering a wireless HDMI setup, THIS IS IT!! You WILL NOT be disappointed. So don't let all the other reviews about "poor quality", or "not a true uncompressed signal" fool you - I don't know what system they're using or what they're expecting this unit to do (perhaps restore crappy analog quality to a digital clearness?!) but it works PERFECTLY for me. And I tend to be fussy about my quality. Yes, as others mentioned, the transmitter does seem to run quite warm, but so long as it was made to be this way, then I can't complain about that either. Now I can set my laptop up all the way across the room (24 feet away for my place) and have DVD-quality video on my TV without running the lanky wires! BUY IT! You WON'T be disappointed!!!

I bought this wireless device for my parents to use with their new laptop. But before I took it to them, I tested it just to see how well it would work in my home in case I want one later. It did a very good job. My desktop PC that I connected the transmitter to is in one of the front bedrooms and the PC sits on a completely open spaced upper shelve (PC sits above my monitor) and the PC is also positioned in that room in such a way that if you stood in line of sight with it you would just barely be able to see out the bedroom door (at a sharp angle), down the very short hallway and into the open living room area where the TV is located just around the corner wall. So even tho the PC is sort of or barely in line of sight with the living room, the PC and TV itself is not in direct line of sight from each other. And I would say the approx. measurement distance between the two is about 25 feet or so. And the device was able to transmit the signal to that TV. I could tell though that I was stretching the signal very close to its limits, because when I would move the mouse around fast on the screen, the video would start getting choppy some. And if I placed the receiver very far at all inside the TV cabinet (which is an open front cabinet) then the signal would start getting very touchy, going in and out completely. So I figured if I bought one for me later then I would just place the receiver on the outside of the TV cabinet on the side of the hallway. And I think it would work out just fine. If I remember correctly I thought I remember seeing that the transmitted signal displayed a lower resolution tho, That far away I don't think it was transmitting full 1080p. But for the distance I had it and the fact that it wasn't directly in line of sight, I'd say it did pretty good. And to me the picture still look pretty good on the TV. It worked great on my parents setup because their laptop and big screen TV are used about 8 to 10 feet away from each other, so of course the signal was excellent. And I didn't experience any video lag on either my parents setup nor on my setup at home. So thats good. There was a point at my parents tho that for some reason the sound wasn't being transmitted to their TV. But after I investigated further it turn out to be an audio driver issue off their PC, which I fixed by re-installing their Intel Graphics HD audio driver from their PC manufacture. So overall I am very pleased with it and may later get one for myself.

Needs work. USE: Transmitter is attached to a DirectTV GenieGo. Receiver is attached to a Sharp TV 60Ghz refresh rate. Receiver is about 10 to 12 feet away from transmitter. There are no walls in between. There are no nearby devices, of which I am aware, that could interrupt or degrade the signal. CONS: 1. The blue LED light on the transmitter blinks when the unit is off. Since I have to keep the Genie Go in a place where I can see it, the attached transmitter is also always viewable, as is the annoying, blinking LED light on the Nyrius Transmitter. 2. The picture is just OK. It is not clear, somewhat grainy. It might be the low 60 Ghz refresh rate on the TV. Perhaps the picture would be better if the TV was the normal 120 Ghz refresh rate, or the higher end 240 Ghz refresh rate? PROS: Well, it does work in the sense that it projects a TV signal to a remote TV that is not directly attached to my DirecTV service. Addendum: I have been using this product for over a year now. It has been a massive disappointment. Sometimes, it works OK, with the exception of the less than quality picture. Mostly though, it has great trouble keeping a constant, consistent video stream. I do not understand this because the receiver is in a room adjacent to the hardware broadcasting the signal, within 15 feet. And, there is clear line of sight. The signal has fits and starts, frequent time outs. It is immensely frustrating. I have gotten to the point that I rarely use the hardware. Today, I spent and hour on-line with their support people trying to troubleshoot the difficulty. Nothing could resolve the problem. I consider this purchase to have been a total waste of time and money, and would not recommend this product to anyone.

This product is pretty good. My television set is mounted on the wall with a recessed compartment behind it. Due to the television set covering the opening my PS4 would completely burn out if I were to place it in the compartment. There really is not a good place to place the PS4 next to the TV and I HATE ugly cables and fishing them behind walls. This product allowed me to essentially cut the cord. My PS4 now sits nicely across the room on a shelf where it gets all the airflow it desires. As for the function of the product: set up was a snap. Everything worked right out of the box and there were no settings to adjust or installations to perform. I plugged everything in and in about 10 seconds I had a picture on the screen. I booted up my PS4 and through on The Division to check the latency. My wife and I stood around the screen taking turns checking for lag and as advertised I can attest to the fact that there IS NO LATENCY. Now that I have had the product for a year I want to note that even with a clear line of sight (I put the receiver below the tv set with direct sight to the transmitter) I get dropped signal occasionally. The picture cuts out for about 30 seconds and then comes back. This happens once or twice every few days. When it keeps happening I just unplug the device and plug it back in to fix it. Another issue is that sometimes it has trouble initially connecting. It seems like this issue is getting worse a year later. I have to unplug it several times over the course of up to 10 minutes to get it working. Not sure of it is wearing out or if there is another issue. I have not changed my setup since getting it. All in all if it does die I will buy another. I just have not found anything better for what it does. The price is high, but it works. Hopefully it does not die just after the one year mark when the warranty expires.

I travel and work a lot from vacation rentals where I like to use a TV screen instead of my tiny work lap-top. I found stringing long HDMI cables across rooms where people need to walk to be nerve-wracking and hazardous. Needed a wireless option, and was not disappointed with this one. Once the HDMI ends are all plugged in, turn on the TV and computer, and presto! Everything works. No special set-up, no need to do anything extra to sync the ends, no downloading software, no fiddling with buttons and praying to the digital gods. What a happy surprise! The other thing to note is both ends do need power. Since batteries wouldn't last long and I spend HOURS at a computer, I was specifically looking for something to plug in to power the ends. The TV end requires a regular 120 volt wall plugin. The computer end has a USB cable for power. You can plug the USB end into your PC computer, or use a USB power outlet (I carry a surge protector with USB plugins). I love it!

I have been testing the Nyrius Aries for about 2 weeks now. The wireless transmitter works very well at times, but fails to connect at times as well. The automatic closing of the 5G channels works well as i have my router also on the same frequency. There is no interruption due to this. At times the device will restart on its own, i believe maybe it gets too hot mounted behind the TV. I have it about 15 feet from my TV broadcasting my cable box. The cable box/transmitter reside behind the couch which definitely affects the quality. You can see the TV quality drop at times due to the couch being in the way, but once you move the box to higher ground where the signal isn't being blocked by a couch, the quality is great. This is not good for anyone trying to hide all wires/cables boxes. I would not recommend this for anyone displaying solid background images, meaning if you are using this for digital signage, and you have images which contain large space of 1 solid color, you will notice that there are flickering pixels on the screen. I would recommend this for anyone at home having to deal with low-skilled cable providers (Comcast) and wanting them to cable your house. DO NOT ALLOW THEM TO CABLE YOUR HOUSE, they will make holes everywhere and not run the wires through your attic/wall.

The Nyrius Aries HDMI transmitter/receiver pair *totally* solved my TV (49" LG) hookup issue to a FIOS cable box. I wanted to watch TV in a room that has foot traffic, but that room has large windows&walls that made it nearly impossible to fish through a cable. I was hoping to find some sort of transmitter/receiver solution. My audio/visual expert neighbor said my hoped-for solution was impossible, or at least not on the market. But the Amazon description of the Nyrius Aries HDMI seemed like a perfect solution. HDMI connections imply simple hookups, especially important for TV mounted on a mobile cart (so a minimum number of trailing cables is helpful.) Which Nyrius Aries version to get, the 25 or 100 foot? My cable box is about 20 feet away from the TV. But my FIOS cable box is in an adjacent room, so I figured that transmission would be further attenuated by two layers of sheet rock plus a solid wood panel. So I chose the 100 foot version. Using the included USB power supply, the setup worked perfectly. The package includes a right-angle HDMI bender adapter, which I very much appreciated, solving the issue of my cable box in a tight space, with little depth behind the cable box. But there's more happiness to the story! I was a bit annoyed that the Nyrius Aries receiver requires 2 amps, and thus a beefy USB power supply that you can't draw from the built-in USB port at the back of my LG TV. A 2 amps supply requirement for the receiver is double the supply requirement for running the transmitter! That specified ratio doesn't make sense to me. Being a natural skeptic, I measured for myself my Nyrius Aries receiver's actual current draw, which was only .09 amps, not the claimed 2 amps. Therefore one might expect that my TV would easily provide the necessary power for the Nyrius receiver. So it was worth a test, which proved that my TV's built-in USB power source did indeed supply enough amperage. I thus found no need for the (included) separate beefy USB power supply. All I needed was to connect a USB-to-mini cable from my TV USB port to the Nyrius receiver. In other words, my TV's light-duty electricity cord (or simple extension coord if you need more length) is now the only cable of any sort between my TV and the wall. Tip: I securely mounted my Nyrius Aries receiver unit directly on the back of my TV, using 3M Command brand "Mini Clips", which fit perfectly into the two keyhole slots thoughtfully molded underneath the receiver unit. You'll have to break off the Nyrius receiver unit's rubber feet stanchions, no problem since the stanchions easily fall off anyway. Not important to me: a) It's possible that the resulting picture quality isn't as perfect as from a traditional coaxial cable hookup (even though my Nyrius Aries system is reporting that I'm in HD 1080 mode,) but maybe that's only when I'm critically looking closely at the screen from a few inches away. b) I purchased an IR cable box extender device for ~ten bucks, then fed its simple thin cable through a wall, so that my FIOS remote control clicker will command the set top FIOS cable box located in a closet in adjacemt room. Talk about a minimalist overall implementation, way beyond my expectations. Am extremely happy with the Nyrius Aries HDMI transmitter/receiver product.

I purchased the Pro version of the nyrius wireless HDMI and I was impressed by how it worked and the ease of set up. I am currently using it with my Epson 8350 HD projector so I don't have to run anything, but power to it. As far as i can tell there is no latency or signal quality loss with audio or picture. The USB power option is great and i was able to use it on the transmitter side. If Epson had a USB port on the projector i would have used it there too. Setting this thing up was so easy. First, I plugged my transmitter into the HDMI out of my Yamaha and used the USB port from my BluRay player to power it. Second, I plugged the receiver end into the HDMI in of my Epson 8350. I powered the receiver end using the supplied power plug and turned everything else on. Those three steps took 5 minutes and I had a picture up on the projector screen. I am only using the setup with a distance of 15 feet between transmitter and receiver so I cant currently speak to how it works at long distance or through walls. I have only had the product in my possession for 5 days so i cant speak to reliability either. I do plan to test distance, so I will update with that information later. It is important to note that I have two wireless routers in the house which do not appear to be impacted and do not seem to impact the wireless HDMI performance. Also, in the same room I have wirless speakers running, which do not seem to be impacted either. In summary, I highly recommend the product based upon my experience up to this point. Update: I've being using it now for several months and it is very reliable. I love the USB power option and power it from my DirecTV HR24 tuner. There is absolutely no delay or quality reduction in video or audio. Great product if this continues to last. Update 2018: it is very consistent at about 60 feet, but beyond that it can destabilize. You also need to try different usb power to source if you power it that way. Wrong power overheats it and it stabilizes.