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    “Problem Solver” Contest Winner!!!

    Congratulation to Steven Schiro who just won our VGA to HDMI converter the AT-HDVieW. His submission was selected out of the top 10, after reading this you can see why:

    I live with 2 roommates and we have a nerd’s paradise in our living room, but our setup leaves much to be desired. In our living room, we have 2 HDTV’s, a 5.1 system, and over 10 video game systems, ranging from the original NES to the newer Xbox 360 and PS3 consoles. Besides the video games and our HDTV cable boxes (for the San Jose Sharks, of course), we also hook our laptops up to the TV with a long HDMI cable that runs throughout the living room. Now it is awesome, but our living room looks like the bridge of the Nebuchadnezzar; there are wires literally everywhere throughout the room and it is a mess to hook anything new up, or change the TV of a given device. This is where Atlona’s products can help. 

    To start off with, we are completely out of HDMI ports on our TV’s (between our 2 PS3s / 360 / Cable Box / Laptop Connections, etc), and it looks pretty comical seeingHDMI cables running to the TV from every direction (one of our TV’s is mounted above the fireplace, and it looks like it is being pulled in all directions by the cables). Atlona has the perfect HDMI Switcher: A Matrix switcher which will allow us to connect different devices to different sources. Since we have 2 TV’s, we could put the Sharks Game on one TV and the PS3 on another. This way we would only need to have one HDMI cable running to each TV, which would be much more convenient and would allow us to have the rest of the wires hidden. 

    Since we also enjoy connecting our laptops to our TVs, Atlona has a wireless HDMI product that would be perfect. Instead of running a large HDMI cable through the living room (which doesn’t look good, limits our range, is a tripping hazard, etc), we could plug the USB stick into our laptop and have it display right on the screen. This is extremely useful and would make the room much better and safer. 

    I also mentioned that we have over 10 video game systems. Most of them use the composite connectors (Yellow-Red-White), but we have to navigate through a maze of wires to plug System X into the desired TV. Atlona also has a matrix composite switcher, which will let us connect all of the devices and choose their output. No more guessing on which cable is what, and no mess of wires to untangle if we want to change the setup. Everything just goes into the switcher, and out to each TV. 

    This is just a start for what Atlona’s products can do for us. Atlona can make our living room much safer, cleaner, sleeker, more convenient, and more Awesome! 

    Congrats again Steve, your prize is in the mail. Stay tuned to our facebook page for more contests and great prizes from Atlona. facebook.com/AtlonaTech