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Old school, meet new school. The Humixx adapter lets you work with both HDMI and VGA cables directly from your modern USB-C based device. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the adapter with his Apple MacBook Pro that only has USB-C connections. Well, he checks out the HDMI side because it turns out that there's not a single VGA cable in the entire ADT office!
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USBC - HDMI and VGA let's check this
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adapter out Dave Taylor here and you
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know I actually spend a fair amount of
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time sitting on the couch working while
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I have a television in front of me now
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when I'm at home that's easy but when
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you're at a hotel or you're otherwise on
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the road it gets tricky to get
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programming that's worth watching enter
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the HDMI adapter so the idea is you hook
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your computer up via an HDMI cable to
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whatever TV you have access to and it
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becomes a second screen now you can use
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it as a second monitor or something but
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it's much more fun to use it for
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something like Netflix now here's what
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I'm looking at this is the humic stew
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and one USB see two HDMI and VGA adapter
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well that's the Box this is the adapter
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so on one end USB see and then there's a
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nice thick cable and then on the other
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end you have HDMI and VGA now the HDMI
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clocks at 3840 by 2160 which is full 4k
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at three thirty Hertz and then the VGA
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the VGA side is 1920 by 1200 at 60 Hertz
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or 1080p HD at 60 Hertz now I have to be
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honest I couldn't even find a VGA cable
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I have hundreds of cables in our office
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I have no more VGA cables at all
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so I actually couldn't even test the VGA
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side so we'll come back to that but the
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HDMI side worked great and it's super
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easy to work with with my macbook pro
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all i have to do is plug in the HDMI
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cable plug this into my computer and
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then the other end of the HDMI cable
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plugs into my television now let's
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switch around and I'll just show you a
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couple of quick things on my big 50 inch
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vizio eight 4k TV now as you can see
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Netflix looks just fine and this is
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again via using the humic s-- USB C to
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HDMI adapter and then if I want to use
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it as a second monitor here's a webpage
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obviously my sites home page and you
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click everything's nice and
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fast there is no reason you can't use
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this as a second screen or as the cable
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or adapter to utilize a second screen so
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that works great can I test VGA no is
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anyone using VGA at this point I'm a
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little skeptical anyone's actually still
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using a VGA connector that's kind of
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really old-school back there from many
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years ago but the adapter certainly
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works with that so let me unplug it so
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here's the thing is that it has HDMI on
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one side and VGA on the other but you
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can't use them both at the same time so
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if you think sweet this would let me
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hook up two monitors on an old-school
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VGA monitor and then something fancy
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with HDMI doesn't work that way this
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particular guy only lets you use one or
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the other not both now one of the things
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that humans has done that's really nice
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with this is they put in triple
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shielding to make sure there's no
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interference from Wi-Fi or any other
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magnetic or electrical fields you'll
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want to pair that with good quality HDMI
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cable income I cable that can actually
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add interference to this signal now a
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lot of people might not even notice but
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if you're looking and you're watching
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Netflix and things are just a little
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fuzzy or there's like noise on the
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signal or something it's exactly what
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would cause that so this is the humic
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stew and one USB see two HDMI and VGA
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adapter it is perfect for you hanging
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out at the hotel and plug enough cable
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into your TV and being able to have
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whatever the heck you want on the big
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screen while you're also working I
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really genuinely do that a lot actually
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so it's really great to have one of
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these in your kit this one works very
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well it's very good at the price I don't
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really need the VGA so if I was in the
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market to buy one I might look for one
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that doesn't include VGA but it's not
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really costing you much of anything
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particularly when you compare it with
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how much Apple charges if you're using a
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MacBook or MacBook Pro with USB see holy
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cow the Apple adapters are super
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expensive this as you will find in a
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moment is considerably less expensive
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now before I do tell you the price let
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me ask if you can go ahead and click on
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that subscribe button really appreciate
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it and if this is helpful then
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always appreciated - great
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now this humic stew in one USBC - HDMI
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and VGA adapter is $19.99 at amazon.com
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and is a very fair price for a piece of
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technology like this and if you're in
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the market for something like this I
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encourage you to check this one out
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Steve Taylor I'm getting back to Netflix
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which means I'll catch you
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