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Pros & Cons

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Pros

The tech support from startech is incredible. If you're trying to run an ultrawide monitor (maxing out at 1920x1080, this adapter is the bomb.



Cons

This product stops heats up and stops working. Works fine as a passive mdp to hdmi but will not power up a third monitor like an active one would. Even though the description specifically says this will work with the surface pro 3 and surface pro 4 th...  Read More

They're basically disposable adapters. Poor quality. Very frustrating. Will be returning.

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Quality


Refresh rates are correct image quality is better and sleeping equipment actually sleeps


Paid a little extra for the brand and glad i did this product works great i need another one


Cable works but quality could have been better

Price


Easy to use and a good price


Startech is a good brand in my opinion


The hdmi ports on it don’t support the higher refresh rate

Packaging/appearance


Only started working after using switch res x too but this seems to be the only way to get 4k 60 hz from the rmbp

Competitiveness


Ive been happy with my other startech products as well


Ive bought several startech adapter products over the years and they have never let me down


I have a visiontek graphics card with 2 hdmi and 1 mini displayport for a triple 4k monitor set up


I had a moment of weakness and bought a few similar devices in a local bigbox general merchandise store

Overview

  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    great, surface, pro and port.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 665.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 1,212 reviews as of our last analysis date on May 2 2023.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I looked for this product on the manufacturers website to compare price and found that it was some cheaper on amazon


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Everything connected up fine however i failed to realize how bad 720p tvs are at dealing with connections from newer tech


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Picture was terrible any adjustments on the tv or the surface pro settings would make things worse


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Only started working after using switch res x too but this seems to be the only way to get 4k 60 hz from the rmbp


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The hdmi ports on it don’t support the higher refresh rate


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    A tip for surface pro users i had to take incremental steps to get the resolution correct


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I also had to resent my display adaptor


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Im guessing this last piece is because i was using a displayport adaptor previously

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