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112 of 114 people found the following review helpful.
Must Have for Multiple Monitors!
By Ben Buck
I work at an office where each computer has 4 screens. We had no difficulty getting desktop cards to run 4 screens, but laptops were a different story. We used to get these large Dell docking stations with a pci card slot. They no longer make these and the new ones will do two external screens with the laptop closed. We keep the laptops closed on the docks, so I needed 2 more screens.
We purchased another brand of USB adapters and while they worked, we had problems with them. If you open anything video intense (quicktime for instance) or that heavily used the microsoft .net framework, the screens would flicker and go crazy. You would lose control of the mouse and keyboard making the computer unusable. Quickbooks 2010 was one of these products.
The screens with the other brand of USB adapters were also somewhat fuzzy and much less clear than the 2 screens on the integrated video.
I had just about given up hope when I read about Display link. I mean all usb adapters are equal right? (Answer: No way!) I visited their website and saw the videos of one of their employees running 720p video and thought I would give it a shot. Plugable was one of their featured products.
What a difference! These Plugable adapters are almost identical to the integrated video. They have clean and crisp video and each one shows up as a separate monitor in the Windows display preferences. I was able to play video and open Quickbooks without error. PDFs and other documents also scrolled faster, identical to the speed of the integrated video. They used to lag before when on the usb adapter screens.
This product is highly recommended for those needing extra screens. Very highly recommended for laptop users because your video card options are limited.
I even had the company contact me to let me know that there had been a price drop shortly after I ordered, and they wanted to refund me the difference. Very few companies would do that, and it speaks volumes to the folks over at Plugable. Thanks again for making such a wonderful product.
29 of 29 people found the following review helpful.
Works as Expected
By K. Wu
USB 2 has is slow, but for non-video and gaming usage, it is perfect. I use it to connect a second monitor to my laptop when I work with various office applications and web sessions at the same time. Note, the better your processor performance is, the better this adapter’s performance will be.
29 of 31 people found the following review helpful.
usability
By Robert Cazares
The display link product line makes for expanding to additional displays a breeze. I added a 24″ 1920 x 1080 resolution monitor to a laptop using the Plugable USB 2.0 to VGA/DVI/HDMI Adapter DL-195. Couldn’t have been easier. I had an issue with the hardware and customer support at Plugable immediately stepped in and made things right. Highly recommended.
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HD monitors are simply monitors that can display at 720p or 1080p resolution, and there are some that have even higher resolutions. Whatever card you have should run that Philips with no problem.
No, if the monitor can’t accept a higher resolution, it will either send information to your graphics card on the maximum resolution, or nothing will display if you set it higher. Just set it to a resolution that is no higher than the monitor’s maximum resolution and it will work fine.
By the way, virtually all computer monitors from the last 10-15 years can qualify as HD. It’s not just 1920×1080 monitors that are high-definition.
Any VGA card can adjust the screen resolution to display in monitor. I believe you are referring to Radeon HD VGA card. So any monitor will work as long as you don’t adjust the resolution higher than the monitor’s capability.
If VGA resolution is higher than the monitor, then it will be what 9121 said, which is the monitor will go blank. This is a safety protection circuit build into monitor around year 1992