Belkin Miracast Video Adapter

Very good video steaming device. I have been able to test it with the following devices: Samsung Galaxy S5, Galaxy Note 10.1 2014e, Galaxy TabPro 8.4, and Galaxy S4 ad with all it worked flawlessly. I like the fact that the it does not need a wifi router or access point to connect to device. The handheld device you are using will connect directly to the adapter. Another feature that I really like is the ability to ScreenMirror, since I am constantly using my tablets or phone to make and display presentations, this adapter makes it easy to take anywhere and connect to any device that has an HDMI input and display my presentations or videos with out needing to be tethered to a wire and having to been near the TV or projector. Although there is a certain lag (split second maybe) between the time you make a keystroke and the time it is displayed on-screen, but this is not a big deal for me. Although I imagine it would be a problem for those people who like to use their tablets or phones to play games on the big screen. That split second is more noticeable when you play a heavy graphics game such as any Gameloft game (yes, I tried it). But over all this is a great adapter for anyone looking to stream videos, surf the web or screen mirror. Would definitely recommend it to my short tempered grandmother who throws things against the wall when they don't respond (or to any of my other friends)

I don't have broadband internet at my home, but do have unlimited data through my LG G3 (via T-Mobile). I bought this to watch netflix/hulu on my TV using my phone to stream the videos. It worked perfectly. Connecting was very easy. It was as simple as connecting a bluetooth device. Audio quality was great. Picture quality was good... but not great, but I wasn't expecting it to look like a blueray movie. For my purposes, it did exactly what I was hoping for and I'm very happy with the purchase. I'm seriously considering "cutting the cord" and being done with cable now that I can stream movies directly from my unlimited data phone directly to my tv (all without any wires to connect!).

This is a quick review of the Belkin Miracast Video Adapter.The two cell phones that I used to test the Belkin Miracast Video Adapter were a BlackBerry Q10 and Z30. Both devices worked but each had slight hiccups. Minus one star for the hiccups.About the Belkin Miracast Video Adapter: my tests consisted of using the video adapter right out of the box. I did not update the firmware in the video adapter. As other reviewers have noted, to get the video adapter to work you need to provide external power. There really wasn't much else to do. Just plug the Miracast adapter into the TV's HDMI port, plug in the external power adapter, and wait for the Miracast adapter to fully boot and start broadcasting. When it's ready it'll tell you on the TV's screen.Using the BlackBerry Q10 running 10.2.1: This was a fun experiment. After waiting for the Miracast adapter to boot and display the ready screen on the Q10 I went into Settings > Network and Connections > Wi-Fi > Miracast and clicked on Share Screen. Done. Everything on the Q10's 720x720 screen was displayed on the TV, just like on the Q10. I ran a few videos and occasionally the screen image on the TV would break up into horrible pixels but everything sorted itself out. The pixelation was infrequent and didn't last very long. This may or may not be a deal breaker for you, but I can work with it. As for text and music there were no issues at all. The connection was stable for over an hour and everything worked.Using the BlackBerry Z30 running 10.2.1: Here is where the use case for the Belkin Miracast Video Adapter makes more sense. The Z30 has a 5" screen that has a 1280x720 pixel matrix. In landscape mode it's about right for videos, games, and presentations. Getting the Z30 to work with the Belkin Miracast Video Adapter was the same drill of waiting for the video adapter to finish booting, then on the Z30 go into Settings > Network and Connections > Wi-Fi > Miracast and click on Share Screen. The Z30 also experienced occasional pixelation but not enough to worry about it. The only weirdness was with one game. The game played but no sound came out of the Z30 or TV. The solution was to create a 40 second audio file that really contained silence and relying upon BB10's multitasking play that in a continuous loop while I played the game. Then the game's audio went to the TV. Woot!So let's examine use cases. What does the Belkin Miracast Video Adapter do better than an HDMI cable? Well, in short, nothing. It's an HDMI adapter for your cell phone. I can see this device being used in a work environment where someone has a presentation on their phablet or tablet. The only risk here is the presentation may experience pixelation at the worse possible time. So be prepared for that....I can also see using the Belkin Miracast device to have a game's screen presented onto a second screen. I had no idea some games had that much detail crammed into them. It was only when the game's video was ported to the TV that I could see how rich the devs had made the game's environment. Pixelation can occur at a bad time so if you absolutely need to give your attention to the game you're better off watching the screen of the handheld device.Overall I think the Belkin Miracast Video Adapter is a very intriguing device. It takes the place of an HDMI cable and really wants to be in a corporate environment. I can see a person giving a presentation and using the freedom of being able to walk around the stage while the presentation continues uninterrupted. And I can see at the most important moment the presentation pixelating and/or a phone call coming in and breaking up the audience's concentration. But that's OK as most audiences only retain 60% of whatever it is you're trying to get across and really almost any image will do.

It does work and is easy to use. Video streaming is not of the quality I hoped to get. Because it is only mirroring your smart phone screen and not getting the stream straight from a given website, it is subject to frequent video glitches and buffering. It's use is also limited to the latest android system and not compatible with Apple. I'm getting much better results with the chrome-cast device. I cannot recommend the Belkin unless mirroring is only intended for still images from your up-to-date android phone. It may be fine for power-point presentations etc. It's also relatively expensive compared to other more useful devices.

Plugged dongle into the HDMI port on my TV, and the supplied USB into my TV as well. The device came on immediately, and as an added benefit when you plug it into your TV via USB it also does some neat integration. If your TV is compatible (as mine is) you can actually even control the dongle's settings via your remote. Very cool!I was able to pair it with my SurfaceRT 2 flawlessly, only issue is applications which require secure display connections (such as Hulu and Netflix) will not work correctly, which is frustrating because I can simply just use my browser for playback, but i'm not sure this is the adapter's fault.It gets a 5 from me!Thanks for a great product