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welcome to an unboxing of a product that may not be

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glamorous but is certainly useful this is the trendnet TK 204 UK TW Port DVI

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USB KVM switch with audio kit slick

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bought one because uh he'd never heard

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of a KVM kit believe

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no I'm just messing with you Slick's pretty technical he'd heard of a KVM kit

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before or a KVM switch before I see I called it a KVM kit it's not even what

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it is it's really late at night guys um

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here we are in the studio bringing you unboxings of kvms uh so slick got this

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one because we have one for our Tech tip setup uh which has been working really

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well for us so the way it okay okay we're not going to focus too much on this one we'll focus on this one but

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slick um in His Infinite Wisdom managed

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to find it useful in spite of the fact that he configured it wrong see what

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you're supposed to do is plug

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this okay no really there's a reason that he didn't plug in the kvm's DVI

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cable and plugged in a separate DVI cable and I'll explain that as well so

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let's actually get started with the unboxing so you can get kvms in a wide

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variety of different configurations including ones that support um two

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computers to be controlled with a single set of peripherals ones that support

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four computers even rack mount ones that support many computers operating off a

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single keyboard and mouse and then you switch between them according to

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whichever one you want to control you can get ones that use VGA and PS2 uh you

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can get ones that use DVI and USB you can get ones that do support audio and

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ones that don't for a consumer who happens to have a couple computers at

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their desk whether you've got a PC and a Mac and you don't feel like dual booting

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and waiting for os's to load in between uh a lot of our graphic designers here

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at work do that or or whether you have

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um two desktop computers one that is like a dedicated video rendering box and

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one that you act that you use for gaming for example if you have them both at the

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same desk this allows you to with the touch of a button switch between which

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one you want to control and here at any

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given moment so this guy includes everything you need and this is the one

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that I'd consider to be most practical for probably

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90% of consumers so it comes with a wide

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variety of things here including all of these packages that I have to open one

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by one in order to bring you this fantastic

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unboxing of a KVM all right here we

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go ah power okay so the first thing the

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things we don't need uh utility install users guide if you really need that get

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it off the trendnet website quick installation guide plug the things into

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the thing it's that quick all right here

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is the TK 204 U so this is your console

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this button you press to switch between computer 1 and computer 2 there is a

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light that turns on to show you which computer you're operating at the current

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moment then you plug the keyboard and mouse that you want to use in this case

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we have some Microsoft thing and a Corsair Mouse plugged into the USB

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cables at the front all right

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speaking of people who don't know how kvms work I actually don't know what this one's

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for oh yeah the main monitor well then why isn't ours plugged in oh right cuz

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he broke it okay right so moving on uh so this is for the

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actual monitor that you're going to use for both computers then you've got your

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speakers as well as your microphone that you actually use and have sitting on

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your desk on the back you find two more

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sets of DVI so these go out to the video cards of each of your computers and then

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you use him so here is the combo audio DVI

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cable that looks just like that so they've used a couple extra DVI pins

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here for audio so you plug that in and then you go like that there you go and

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then you use these USB cables to plug in

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to the USB port on the back of your computer so by plugging these into to

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your computers you got your two computers and then you've got all your

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peripherals and all of your speakers and microphone as well as your monitor

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plugged in on this side you can effectively control both computers with

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one set of peripherals so here is uh the power for the KVM itself it does need

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separate power um not only can you switch between the computers here but

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you can also set a hotkey on your keyboard to easily switch between the

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two computers now I'll explain why I kept sort of uh you know ragging on

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slick here about his configuration this is a DVI ey cable now there's a very

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good reason that this km has a DVI cable that is because it is compatible not

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only with a digital signal but also with an analog signal the problem though is

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see those those pins around that centerpiece okay so we were testing A

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system that was using Onboard video that has a DVI D out so that is a digital

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only DVI connection so what that meant

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was that when slick had our monitor plugged into the

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KVM and then he had this cable going out to here he actually physically couldn't

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plug it in and that is why it is frankensteined right now and not hooked

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up correctly so he does know what a KVM is he does know how to cook up a KVM I

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was just bugging him because I'm the one on camera and he's not allowed to say

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anything so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look and extremely

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