Review Details

ARIES Home Wireless HD Video Digital Transmitter & Receiver

Product Rating:

Product Review (submitted on October 27, 2015):

All in all, this was a piece of cake to set up. My use-case

was that I have a TV indoors in our family room, connected to

a traditional cable box. We have a covered porch outdoors,

right outside the family room, but you need to walk out the

kitchen (adjacent to the family room) to get to the porch --

meaning there is a wall (but no doors) with some windows

between the family room and the covered porch. We wanted to

watch TV out on the porch, but didn't have a cable connection

or hook-up outside, and the exterior is brick, so

installation would be costly. So the ARIES was our solution.

And it works fantastic. Total distance is about 30 feet from

transmitter to receiver, and there is some general line-of-

site through brick walls and windows between transmitter and

receiver, but not direct line of site. We have watched

dramas, movies, and sports programming, and all have

experienced great quality picture, no noticeable latency in

either sound or video, and it just plain works. Set up was

quick and easy. Plug it in, plug in the HDMI cables, and

voila.

The only thing I wish was different: It would be ideal if

there were two HDMI outputs on the transmitter, so I can have

the TV connected inside and have the option to receive it

outside when needed without having to swap HDMI cables out.

The easy fix for that was to purchase an HDMI splitter, and

that worked just fine. If I hadn't purchased the splitter, I

would need to yank the HDMI from my indoor TV and connect it

to the transmitter each time I wanted to use the outdoor TV.

With the splitter, I can just walk out to the porch and turn

on the TV and not have to worry about moving cables around.

One other positive note: most cable companies offer

smartphone apps to control your set top boxes. We have

Comcast, so with their TV Remote app, I can change the

channel using my smartphone from out on the porch. (The

"master" TV indoors connected to the cable box is what drives

the channels on the outdoor cable box). The good thing is, I

don't need additional remote control devices, cable boxes, or

anything else and I'm watching TV outdoors. It's awesome...

The devices do tend to get warm, but if they are in a well-

ventilated place they tend to work flawlessly. I have only

had to "reboot" them once (unplug them) but it's definitely

not a common recurrence.

All in all, I would highly recommend these devices. We love

it, and my teenagers are already dreaming up ways to use

another set for the basement.
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