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today I'm going to be doing an unboxing of something that's a little bit different from what I usually talk about

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on my channel this is the mivia and what it is is essentially a way of wirelessly

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transmitting uh HDMI data to your TV

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from your Mac okay so let's go ahead and we'll have a look at the back this

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actually won the best of show award at the at Mac World 2011

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so here you go brings your Mac screen to HDTV via Wi-Fi and you can control your

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Mac from the TV Okay so we've got like kind of a wirelessly looking symbol

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we've got kind of a wirelessly looking symbol and a wirelessly looking symbol

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it all goes here and then you are able to control it from your TV so your Mac

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doesn't even actually have to be in the same room it works off Wi-Fi actually

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here we can have a look at the Mac PC requirements really quick so it requires

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a dual core 1.4 GHz or better requires a

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graphics card with 128 Megs of RAM or more so pretty much anything in the

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recent past uh macOS 10.5 plus okay

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here's some recommended models excellent uh oh well okay apparently works on PC

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as well look at that with Vista or Windows 7 okay well that's that's neaty

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all right wirelessly bring the Mac screen to the TV with synchronized audio

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even remotely operate your Mac from the TV with standard USB keyboard and mouse

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also works as a home wireless access point that's cool and support for PC

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sender for Windows 7 inista 3 additional software okay let's open this up and

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have a look at it so the first thing we find inside is

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please visit us for the latest drivers and firmware updates and manual

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downloads hey that's great advice isn't it don't use this please visit us for

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the latest thank you guys I appreciate that there is a quick installation guide

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so since I'm actually curious about how to install this we are going to take a

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closer look for a change all right before you start there are four setup

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possibilities you can use Ethernet so that's going to give you the best

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performance versus using Wireless all right next is using a power line adapter

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power line provides very good performance I mean really it's it's

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almost right up there with wired if you have good clean power in your house and

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if you have a decent power line adapter so that's another good recommendation

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partly Wireless that is reasonable performance

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okay so if a wireless connection is preferred you can connect your home

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access point and MC via cables and

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access either from your home AP or from

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mivia okay and then there's purely Wireless which is basic performance you

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can also try setting up mivia as a wireless client to your home AP via AP

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client mode however the setup is more complicated and vulnerable to any

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interference in the Wi-Fi signal okay so

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they give you a bunch of different options for how to use it and the video quality actually can scale with how good

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your connection is so let's go ahead and see what we've got in here in terms of

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accessories there's a box oh wow it's a lot smaller than I

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thought look at this picture on the outside of the box looks like huge

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doesn't it looks like the size of like a big home router but it's not at all okay

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so why don't we let's check out the accessories first oh

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boy lots of different adapters so I will be

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needing this one that is actually a pretty neat way of doing this um rather

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than create International versions of their product they create one skew make

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sure it's got everything you need make sure that this is compatible with either

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120 volt or 240 volt and then boom you

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just clip in your thing if you're not planning on traveling anywhere in the

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near future then you just throw these out because you clearly don't need them

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and you just use the one you need okay so that's just an AC to DC adapter and

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that will plug into the mivia obviously I'm going to be having to do a follow-up

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video on this one showing you guys it's performance in the real world I'll

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use I'll borrow a Mac from cameraman and

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uh we'll probably demo it on the tech tips TV right behind me which does use

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HDMI so it's got kind of a slick looking

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mirror finish on it and it's got a couple of antennas

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here here we are all right so we'll go ahead and

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throw those on there pretty neat looking little box

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actually but basically what you can do hold on I'm just going to finish up

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getting this all assembled here and then I'll talk a little bit more about it

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okay all right power button on the front

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on the side you see some of the housing on the other side you see some of the

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housing this feels like it's made of aluminum that would be my guess but uh

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you know it feels very very solid it's got some some heft to it it doesn't feel

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cheaply made at all you got rubber feet on the bottom so wherever you put it

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down it's not going to well if you put it down on a cloth then OB L it can move

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around but if you put it down on something that's not a cloth then it's

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not going to move around at all all right on the back we have our Ethernet

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port so that is the way to get the best performance you can also use that

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Ethernet port with a powerline adapter that works very well as well then we

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have wireless so you can use the Wireless in those two different ways

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that we outlined before you have a USB port so you can use that to plug in a

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standard keyboard mouse um Hub whatever the case may be you can use that to

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wirelessly control your Mac even if it's not in the same room as you like if you

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are using a powerline Ethernet for example your max upstairs boom use that

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to control it and then we've got the HDMI out and that's going to go out to

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your TV and finally we have a power in so I'm actually very excited to try out

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this product stay tuned guys and I will be showing you the mivia in action