Look Mom NO WIRES! - AVA 4K Wireless Monitor
ShortCircuit
·ShortCircuit
·2022-05-05
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2,842 words · ~14 min read
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The world without cables is sooner than you think.
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We checked out the Peakdo Wireless HDMI last year on LTT,
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and it had really surprisingly good results, actually.
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It could only do 1080p60 or 4K30, but it was good.
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Like, there was basically zero input lag,
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and it worked as described.
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It got us like 30 to 40 foot range or something like that.
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The big difference, though, between this
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and the Peakdo stuff we used last year
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is the Peakdo thing is a transmitter and receiver
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on its own.
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This is a wireless display, and it's got a battery built in.
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So, I mean, that's like zero wires, basically.
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Whoa.
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It's not very heavy.
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That's it.
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It's tiny.
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It's like 13.3 inches, but this is also a touchscreen,
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which not gonna be used by everyone,
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but it's a cool feature nonetheless.
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There's not much in this box.
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We've got a sheet.
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It tells us that we've got a power port, an exhaust port.
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Well, so there's just like this puck
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that we'll see pretty soon here,
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and that's your dock.
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And then there's a dongle that pairs on the device itself,
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and then it transmits that to the screen.
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So there's gotta be a receiver built into the screen,
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I think, somewhere.
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The way this works is it's using 5G millimeter wave,
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which is basically the higher end of what 5G can do.
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And it's got crazy range, and it's just like zero latency.
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But it suffers from one huge issue, and that's interference.
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If you've got a line of sight, it's awesome.
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Like, it actually works really, really well.
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But as soon as you put anything heavy,
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honestly, if you just put a second display
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in between this and the other transmitter,
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it's probably gonna cut out.
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You might not get a full loss of transmission,
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but you will see like a chop here and there
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where it has to kind of catch up.
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So yeah, just make sure that even if you're at range,
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don't get a bunch of stuff in between you
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and the receiver and the display,
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or it's not gonna work very well.
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Charging brick, because you always need more of these.
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So we've got USB-C to A.
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This is probably for charging.
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That goes with our power brick.
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And then we've also got another USB-C cable.
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And then this is HDMI mini,
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to HDMI, I'm guessing.
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And then here's the puck.
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Here's the transmitter.
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5G can operate between like 24 and 100 gigahertz
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in the frequency spectrums,
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but this has got a little 60G stamp on it.
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So I'm pretty sure it's operating at about 60 gigahertz.
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Let's get this wicked peel.
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Oh, I mean, that's the display.
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It's got a really handy kickstand on the back, actually.
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This is super stiff.
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I am a little worried that over time,
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like from using it a whole ton, it's gonna loosen up
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and it's not gonna be as good, but it's not bad.
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Like it works pretty good.
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And I think there's rubber feet.
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Yeah, there's a little bit of rubber on the bottom too.
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You can see where they've got the battery.
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I would be willing to bet that it's right along here.
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It's the thickest point,
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but they've done a really good job
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of kind of incorporating everything.
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So it's also got the IO.
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We've got a headphone jack and then what looks like USB-C.
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Oh, it tells me right here, OTG.
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What does OTG mean?
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I honestly don't know.
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And then what's this button do?
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Switch.
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Oh, is that for like a menu?
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Is it USB on the go?
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I don't know.
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On the go, maybe.
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The other side also has a few imports.
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There's a power, then there's a type C connector,
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and then there's our HD.
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So our really small HDMI.
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So I guess if you wanted to,
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you could just hook this up to whatever.
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Say you don't care about the wireless feature
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and you just want a small screen
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because your Switch is a little too small,
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but you want something that's still kind of portable.
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You can totally just plug it right into this guy.
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So this is probably the receiver on the back here.
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So you just, whenever, wherever you set this up,
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just try to make sure that you've got a nice direct line
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of sight from this guy to this guy.
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So there's not much else to do
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It took a little bit of kerjiggering
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to kind of figure this thing out.
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It's not that complicated though.
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Basically, it does need power for most things.
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One of the cool features it has
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is it'll actually use your phone's battery
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to power the receiver.
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I don't think the switch will let it do that though,
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so we've got it hooked up to a power source.
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And then from the USB-C side of things,
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we're gonna go to our switch
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because that docks via USB-C.
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Display, how do I turn you on?
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There's this OSD switch on the side here,
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and sometimes it likes to work real good,
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oh, there it goes, cool.
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Hey, cool.
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Oh, one thing to note is that like when it's flat,
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it is still working with the receiver.
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Oh, no signal.
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I didn't turn the switch off.
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Oh, I think it's trying, please.
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There we go.
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Hey, all right, all right.
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So yeah, I mean, there you have it.
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Boom, look at this.
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Nothing, nothing.
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No wires going to that at all.
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Boom, fully wireless experience.
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And it looks really good though.
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And there's like zero input lag.
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Like the only kind of latency I'm really feeling
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is kind of the switch itself.
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This runs, I'm pretty sure Dread runs around like 30 FPS.
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Oh yeah, see, as soon as I like go to hide the receiver,
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it starts to have issues.
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So you've got to tilt it up like this.
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Yeah, it's mad at me already.
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If we had this not aimed at the camera
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and we had like more of a line of sight like this,
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I bet you it'd work great.
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We'll show you a better example in a little bit.
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Ultra.
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Ultra HDR.
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What the hell?
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This thing is ultra HDR?
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Oh right, it's a touch screen.
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I keep forgetting that.
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Wait, is it though?
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What?
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Yeah, okay, that's working.
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Oh, it has some trouble.
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It doesn't.
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Oh, okay.
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So HDR actually does make a huge difference.
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Does that look, that looks worse.
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That's way too blown out.
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Auto is probably your best bet.
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You can turn a crosshair on, battery info, sharpness in it.
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Yeah, that's just fine.
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But you can change a bunch of color like RGB pickers and stuff
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which is actually pretty impressive
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for something like this.
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So Andy just had me turn down the audio
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because guess what?
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It's got speakers.
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That's right.
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Which is actually a pretty nice feature
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on a display like this because I mean,
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if I'm using something like this,
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chances are you could be using this in the bathtub, frankly.
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Like, oh man, that's actually sick.
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I kind of wish I could go take a bath and just like play.
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Like I don't want to bring a switch into a bathtub.
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Like that's just a terrible idea.
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But hear me out.
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You have the screen like somewhere else.
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That you can still see, obviously.
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And then you have your switch somewhere else.
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And then you just got the controllers.
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If you drop the controllers in the bathtub, who cares?
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That's fine.
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I mean, sure, maybe you have to buy a new controller
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but that's not the end of the world.
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It's a wireless display.
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By whom?
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Ava.
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Ava?
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It has an exhaust port?
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Yeah.
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What do you plug into the exhaust port?
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Exhaust.
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Look at, what's this?
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It's my laptop.
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Is it trying?
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We're setting up multi-touch.
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Oh my God.
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Look, it's doing something.
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Hey.
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Wow.
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Whoa.
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Look at that.
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Hold on, hold on, hold on.
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I have six Teams notifications.
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Busy boy.
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Yeah, it's connected to my laptop just fine.
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Oh, it's having trouble.
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So basically the receiver is on the back here
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and the transmitter's right there.
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So the problem is we're trying to show the camera
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but then we put the receiver flat on the table
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and then it loses signal.
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That's not because of the device.
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It's actually pretty good.
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As soon as it's actually on the line of sight, it's great.
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I mean, I'm trying to think about like the justification
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because you think about the size of that thing.
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It's in a sort of tablet-y form factor.
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So there's, I could see how someone would think like a-
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No, I don't want to make it flat.
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They could sit there flat.
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It could sit there flat, right?
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Yeah.
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And then it doesn't work.
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It's a little finicky when you start losing connection.
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When you fully lose connection.
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Yeah, but this thing's like, oh, no connection, so.
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If you just get in the way. Oh, maybe that's fine.
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A little bit, it'll chop a little bit.
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But if you full-on break the connection,
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you have to like reconnect everything, which is fine.
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It's not the end of the world.
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How does this computer work?
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I don't know, Windows is hard.
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Critiquing this all day.
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Oh yeah.
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Yeah, I can.
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Oh, whoa.
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So that's super cool.
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The touch like totally, you close the laptop.
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But it's going out of a-
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It's probably set to shut off when it's closed.
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Why?
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It's only on this laptop.
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Oh, much better.
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Here we go.
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Oh my God, Andy.
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And the question is, Andy's such a great guy.
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Will the touchscreen work?
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Cause I used an Espresso display,
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which had touchscreen functionality.
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Is that what LED stands for?
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Liquid Espresso display?
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Yeah, actually.
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Wow.
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Andy, why is this not going in this plug?
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Is this plug broken?
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Nope.
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Wow, you're just-
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Oh no, it's just a stiff cable.
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All right, boom.
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Software update.
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Let's do the software update on Monterey.
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Hey, why isn't that working?
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No, I don't think that's gonna.
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No, it doesn't work.
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With Windows, it worked.
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That's fine.
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So maybe that's a big thing,
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is if you're an Apple user
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and you wanna use the touchscreen,
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maybe don't get this.
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Okay, so this thing's like,
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I wanna watch a movie off my computer
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and I don't have any apps or a tablet
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to use Plex or something.
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Well, sure, but I wouldn't use this for watching movies.
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I would use this for portable gaming, kind of.
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Say I want to play on my computer,
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but I wanna do it from my couch
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and I don't have a TV
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or I don't wanna plug in
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my TV,
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because then I've got this weird cable running
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all the way from my TV to my PC
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and I'd much rather just have a little dongle
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sticking out somewhere on my desk.
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Right.
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Okay.
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I'm gonna play a song.
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I'm gonna just try playing a song to the speakers.
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Okay, ready?
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Yeah, switch it back.
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Oh yeah, that's so good.
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No, it's not.
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It's really bad.
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But you know what?
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Like it's a thin screen.
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They're really hard to get good speakers out of.
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Well, I'm done.
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I have no more thoughts anyways.
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Yeah, that's cool.
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Okay.
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See you later.
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Goodbye.
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Oh, you power that thing.
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Oh yeah, it's totally working.
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I mean, it's trying now, but there it is.
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Yeah.
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Boom.
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Yay!
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All right, now we wanna check out the range.
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So any of you who watched the Peak Dew video,
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you might remember that this is basically
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where we tested that stuff too.
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And it's hooked up to Andy's camera right now.
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And I'm like watching myself on the screen
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and it's a little weird,
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but I'm just gonna keep going back.
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And I'm actually, I know that this has crazy good range.
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It's fine.
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We're totally past 20 feet now.
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It's still good.
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Yeah, this thing's okay.
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But here I'm gonna go behind the wall.
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Oh, it stopped.
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Oh, it's having trouble kicking back on.
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Sometimes you gotta unplug it, plug it back in.
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Oh, there it goes.
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Yeah, cool.
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There I am.
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Neat.
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It stops working as soon as I change the receiver direction
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and point it that way, but it works pretty good
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because it's up such a high frequency.
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It's basically not going to get interrupted
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by a whole bunch of stuff.
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It takes a lot of juice though.
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Like that thing is getting hot and this isn't too bad,
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but it's just the battery.
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That's why it has all those vents on the back,
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like on the bottom.
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So if you're gonna get one of these,
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don't tuck it away somewhere,
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both because of the line of sight
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and because it's just gonna get crazy warm.
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Like not, probably not gonna start a fire,
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but it's not something you wanna toy with really.
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For the 13 inch one that we've got,
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it's 1080p and it's like $590.
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So just shy of 600 bucks for a 13 inch screen.
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It is 1080p.
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1080p 60 at least.
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If you wanna go higher than that,
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you can get 4K on the 17 inch screen,
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but it's gonna cost you even more.
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It's gonna cost you like $1,000 to get that.
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So I really don't see this being for people
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who wanna play games too much,
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unless they're traveling constantly
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and they need some kind of portable display.
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Otherwise the main place I see it being used
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is like in camera dens.
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Like right now, this is great having
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like a little portable monitor like this.
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If we were filming outside or something,
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we could have this set up and just put our monitor, like,
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in a little table somewhere.
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And that way we can actually watch ourselves
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and make sure that we're getting the shot that we need.
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Especially if you're by yourself.
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If you're by yourself and you've got to set up on a tripod
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and then just like walk away,
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having this with you so that you can look at yourself
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and make sure the shot looks good, super handy.
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I see that being a much more like value oriented
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kind of position.
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Whereas for gaming, I don't know.
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I don't think it's really worth it.
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But to each their own.
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If you have a use case and you really want one of these,
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I mean, hey, it's a pretty cool product nonetheless.
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And maybe in the future, the price will drop
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and we can see a lot more wireless displays coming
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for pretty much every use case.
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Maybe even high refresh rate gaming monitors.
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You never know.
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Thanks for watching.
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This is the Inlead AVA wireless display.
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4K or 1080p, depending on which model you get.
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And yeah, if you want to check out
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any other monitor short circuits, feel free.
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There's a whole bunch.
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We just did the ViewSonic Mini LED.
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That was great.
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Fun monitor.
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Looks a lot nicer than this.