Best solution for wireless connection from various laptops to monitor?

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Greetings. I have a conference room where people meet with all kinds and ages of laptops, and I want them to be able to connect with a LCD monitor we have in the room. We had an Imagtion Link for this purpose, but it worked with a dongle and required installed software, and it never worked that well, and never worked properly with Macbooks, etc. People who the room have PCs or Macs, so I think that excludes something like Miracast or AppleTV. So I want to find something that connects to the display port of a laptop.

It seems the main candidate for this is a HDMI video transmitter like this one, which is meant for beaming HDMI video around a house. My questions are

  • Is this a good solution?

    Since most laptops don't have HDMI ports, will it work OK to connect to the transmitter with adapters? Most users would have either VGA or MDP output ports. Are there particular kinds of adapters I need to avoid (or seek)?

    Is there a better solution I haven't considered?

TIA...Steve
 
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An adapter should be fine as long as it's an active adapter. Many laptops these days do natively have HDMI cables.

If your media doesn't have audio, you might want to consider a VGA or standard DVI cable if wires are an option at all. You could use long cables if there's room to route them. Analog cables like that don't carry audio but there shouldn't be compatibility issues if the laptops you have don't carry DisplayPort or HDMI ports.
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An adapter should be fine as long as it's an active adapter. Many laptops these days do natively have HDMI cables.

If your media doesn't have audio, you might want to consider a VGA or standard DVI cable if wires are an option at all. You could use long cables if there's room to route them. Analog cables like that don't carry audio but there shouldn't be compatibility issues if the laptops you have don't carry DisplayPort or HDMI ports.
 
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cormanaz

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@hotten-than-vishera thanks for the input. For anyone looking to do the same thing, the iogear unit linked in my original post is a solution. It works great, and the video quality is awesome. Caveat: I am using this line-of-sight over a short distance. I don't know how it would work for other applications.
 
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