"If you bothered to wade through the details, you might have noticed the absence of HDMI connections. The PowerBar doesn't do video, so if you want to hook up a Hopper, a Blu-ray player, an Apple TV, or a Roku box, as well as your laptop, you're going...
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You ask for a subjective but my guess is that you would not hear a significant difference given the sound reproduction limitations of the soundbar. I own this AT soundbar and love it for what it is. Just about the perfect bedroom system where you can't, or don't want to, live with speakers everywhere. Newer tvs auto-detect the HDMI source. You do have to manually select the soundbar audio source, probably on the remote. The soundbar display shows the sources as S1, S2 etc so you have to remember which is which. This can be cumbersome I suppose but everyone here knows S1 is PS4, yada. So... HDMI sources to tv, audio sources via light pipe to soundbar. Select HDMI souce on tv and audio source on the soundbar remote. If you want to hear and enjoy the fancy decoding you should buy a great receiver and great 7.1 speakers. This AT soundbar is not a mini-7.1 system, it is a fat and usable 3.1 near 5.1 system.
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Overall the unit is designed to protect your most valuable "things" when it comes to electronics. So using a power bar would defeat this functionality if you were to add such things as lights but if you are talking another DVD player, PS, etc, I'd go ahead. The primary issue here would watts and you don't want to add something like a heater or hair dryer.
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I bought this for my grandson and he doesn't live with me. I would suggest you Google the Laptop and see if they have details about HDMI. Have been really happy with this laptop (he says) and especially liked being able to purchase with Windows 7.
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My documentation shows that it only have a VGA and DVI input, if you have a HDMI to DVI adapter or cable you can try that way.
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No power is different from not having sound. If no power up, contact tech support. If no sound, then consider the following: When using the adapter, it can be difficult difficult to link TV and soundbar when turning on and off. My best solution is power down the TV only and leave the power bar power-up at all times. Either the power unit or the adapter is challanged by cycles of on and off
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Some few devices are non-standard and their HDMI ports are not powered. In those rare cases an AC adapter will be required. I found all the devices I use, except the cable DVR box, worked fine. I requested an AC adapter from the seller and they sent me one, free of charge.
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I am sorry this bar has no HDMI input or out put , but has only analog input. Did you hook it up to analog output on TV? It doesn't matter to HDTV or analog TV.
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I don't use a power supply for mine. The needed power is supplied via the HDMI connection from the tv or other media device.
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The claims are somewhat confusing. I bought it with the intention to go VGA -> HDMI (laptop VGA out to an HDMI LCD TV). I returned it, assuming it was defective.Reading the bullet point use cases carefully, it appears they're selling it ONLY as a product that will go FROM an HDMI port into a VGA port. So you could, in theory, output your BluRay player to an old CRT.
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It is not powered by the VGA port. The software installed on the computer can run any video that the computer can run. Android platforms are not supported. Not very user friendly.
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DO you mean USB or cable or plug for power??ALso, I been having issues with the quality of the picture on the screen when I connect my dvd player, or camcorder to the TV. THere is sound and picture, but it is terrible. Do you have this problem also?
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LoL you need to find out whether or not MacboOk Pro has HDMI ports. Often times lap top related stuff can be customized by the consumer who is purchasing it. HDMI ports are sort a staple in the industry now if the electronic is worth its salt at all.
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Unfortunately the power over HDMI did not work for me, for some reason my HD television couldn't supply enough power to the machine and I didn't want to have my playstation on all the time in order to power the device. You might need to connect one of the HDMI slots on this device connect to a power outlet through a HDMI to USB cord or some other method.
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No HDMI CONNECTIVITY 1 Digital Visual Interface connectors (DVI-D) with HDCP 1 DisplayPort(DP) 1 Video Graphics Array (VGA) 1 USB 2.0 upstream port 4 USB 2.0 downstream ports DC power connector for Dell Soundbar
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nope i was going to use it for my laptop because the hdtv i bough dose not have a vga but my laptop acer netbook dose so i need help finding something that will work so u can project it to my tv have found something that will help so i can project my laptop to my hdtv vizio
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Mine has been used connected to a couple of different Macs, a Windows laptop and a couple of Linux boxes. It "just worked"... But it doesn't do VGA, so beware. You need HDMI or DVI.
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Not quite sure what you mean. It doesn't power on or it doesn't go to 1080P? You have to go through the menu options and select 1080P, or it will record in the pre-selected resolution. If you meant it doesn't power on, it may be a battery related issue.