does it work well for watching movies from a laptop? Any chance of someone doing a video reply on youtube showing it playing movies/games? It would be greatly appriciated by me and many with the same question! please attach the link if you do!
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I've used it to project some Youtube videos and also play a DVD from my laptop DVD player. It isn't perfect for showing movies because it isn't the brighest of projectors and it doesn't keep up with fast motion as in an action movie. I'd say that it is good enough to show a video clip or play a movie but it isn't going to be top quality home theater video. If the room is fairly dark it would probably look OK.
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I had this same problem, too. put a couple of movies on there and it was almost painful to try to watch. I don't think this device works very well for videos/movies. :/ I doubt the hardware is good enough to provide a proper, synced playback.
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I do not use it for video. Only audio. Even If it played video without a hitch, the quality would not be that great. Stick to audio only. Get something else for video.
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So far my pc only has a vga out and works fine when converted to an hdmi. I did not have to install any drivers. I would say yes you should be able to watch your movies.
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I haven't had the video drop out while watching a movie, but the GUI for the net/usb function will not display half the time. My TV displays a message that it is not receiving any video signal, which is odd since I know the receiver is on.
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I just bought one of these last week and the picture looks good from any angle. I am very pleased with the picture quality also, as well as it's wi-fi conections. My wife streams Netflix movies on it at least once a day.I hope this has been of some help for you.
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Ya it works just fine for streaming, ive streamed lots of movies on it. If anything is slow its going to be because of your internet speeds not the computer.
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I would recommend it to you. The wide screen makes it ideal for movies, but the audio quality is not so great. I wouldn't say it's bad though, just the internal speakers are sub-par. Get a set of external speakers, and you'll be good to go. As far as school projects go, it's been able to handle all the projects I've used it for :)
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It doesn't work for me either, but I am just using the splitter so I can connect my laptop to my TV and my computer monitor to watch movies on Netflix and it works great. I keep my laptop on a docking station. My 40" TV even works fine as a computer monitor when I want a big screen, so the splitter works for my situation for what I want it to do.
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Thanks Albert and A. Macharia. I'm a gal BTW... : ) I was able to use my HDTV as a monitor, but nothing more really. I bought the cable that you mentioned (A.) and I could watch Netflix, but the audio was still coming out of my laptop which wasn't fun. I ended up returning the cable to the Apple store and bought an Apple TV, but now downloading anything on that thing takes forever. Grrrrr...... Maybe it's time to bump up my wireless connection. IDK...
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Have not run a movie thru yet. I ran a homemade DVD slide show with music. had the HDMI plugged into my laptop, at my daughters wedding. It was in a hotel banquet hall. And everyone could see. Sorry I could not be more help.
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Yes I actually have this setup so I stream from my main pc to my multimedia room. Before i did try it i had the idea that a really big hd movie like 10Gb would give me problems but its pretty amazing how the media player reproduces the movie with no problems at all.Configuring your shared folder so the box can see your videos can be the tricky part but here is the video I used to configure my shared folder so it wont ask for password and all my family can view the content.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQstgQ4eJCM
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I watch YouTube movies and videos and it does great. I just don't like Windows 8 with this computer but everything else is wonderful. The quality of the video's is great depending on your internet speed of course. I have high-speed cable internet. I would recommend this lap-top for movies however, you will probably need to watch the battery life. I get about 5 hours of battery life.
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My mini HDMI port wont work with my Samsung 50 inch Plasma TV. I don't think the tablet is fast enough to play back movies on HDMI. Most of the time it don't play movies on the screen or it is to slow playing movies. Sound is very low with volume all the way up. Never tried downloading to SD card then playing either. Great for web browsing,weather,stock market and some games. Mine don't take good pictures or video. I use mine mostly for bible at church. I would look at a different tablet for movies.
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Thanks for the info.Personally, I'm not terribly interested in all of the bells and whistles (like internetTV and wifi capability), but if this can play a good range of video files with varying codecs, it's looking like a good buy. :)
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i absolutely love mine. i use it on my ipad and my computer. it works with the netflix app, itunes, youtube, etc. on my ipad. on my laptop i just use the cinemin as a secondary display. it's great. the only thing i don't love about it is when using it on my ipad i would prefer to keep the sound on the ipad over the tiny speakers on the cinemin.
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I have found that making sure there is adequate wifi signal is important to using this device to stream video. For my home, I found it necessary to add a "range extender" to my wifi system . I have ocasionally experienced dropped signal since installing the extender but it is rare. Buffering has improved considerably. I have found that the recent update for the youtube app corrected a few issues including the full screen problem. I hope this helps Harold