Customer Reviews

Cables To Go - 25246 - 8in Econo HD15M to (2) Female SVGA Y-Cable

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(6)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

This cable works okay, but note that the brightness of both monitors will be cut in half. This works fine if the brightness is already turned down, but on a dim monitor, it might not work to well.

I have bought 3 of these over the past year. I am a Special Education teacher in an elementary school and our ISD will not buy these to split the picture from our monitor to our smartboards (very expensive interactive projector type screens). They won't buy them, but said we could. I bought the first one on sale for $6 last Christmas, then I got two more at $10 for fellow teachers. I use my smartboard DAILY and this cable works just as stated. Best Buy and others want $25 to $30 for something like this. Why? As a teacher, I don't want a brand mame, I just want something that works.
I use it to split the picture from my computer to 1) my monitor and 2) the projector that displays onto the interactive smartboard. Without it I would constantly have to switch the cable from my ISD computer to the smartboard whenever I wanted to use the smartboard. Now it is permanently hooked up and my kids actually turn the smartboard on, calibrate it, and interactively engage in great learning. Great use of my money.

This item works but I cannot have both the TV and computer monitor hooked up at the same time. The TV will make a buzzing sound and the picture displayed cannot be deciphered. Its all snow and lines. But it works perfect if I disconnect one and leave the other in. I was hoping I wouldn't have to do that but at least I do not have to unscrew it from behind the TV to hook up the monitor. I am happy with my purchase even though it doesn't work 100% like I thought it would.

It got three stars because it "works." I used it to split to my 42" HDTV and the picture quality was perfect. But, the quality of the picture on my 17" LCD computer monitor shows noticeable signal degradation. This might be due to the cable. Or, this could be due to the fact I split the signal. Or, as a comp. programmer friend of mine suggested, my video card is just not strong enough (all i have is a standard Dell). So this cable works, the price is right, but I don't know whether my signal issues are due to the cable or my computer. Whatever the case is, this product won't break the bank if you're just trying it out.

PS - This product will NOT give you two desktops!! It will just duplicate the one you have. You need a special video card if you want that feature.

I received the splitter in two days with no issues. The splitter allowed me to connect a flat screen TV to my older PC for doing presentations in our conference room.

I've got a small flatpanel over my treadmill that I wanted to run off the same computer as my main work monitor, and I bought this to split the signal. The resolution is fine. I can watch movies over the flatpanel while I'm on the treadmill, but the signal to the main monitor is so dim it is really useless for anything other than writing reviews like this, so I've ended up buying a VGA extender/amplifier, and this thing goes into the spare cable bin.

It is really good products much cheaper than stores and i recieved in 2 days which is awesome.

I bought other stuff from Amazon now also because you get good rates as well fast delivery service.

Thanks Amazon

I'm using this splitter to connect an LCD projector to a desktop computer.

While all attempts to split a video signal are prone to noise and loss of clarity / brightness / sharpness, this is a very cost effective solution (in conjunction with an equally cheap 25' VGA cable) to providing both LCD projector and desktop monitor output simultaneuosly.

In over 50 installations, I've only had 2 where the disturbance to the monitor was too great to "live with". In each of these cases, replacing the CRT monitor with an LCD monitor completely removed the objection.

this is not a good item. got it for $7 with shipping but still not worth it.
hooked it to my hdtv, but the computer screen went dark, and started flashing quick black screen every 3seconds.
this did not work for me but maybe it could work for you.
i did read other (bad) reviews but still wanted to try it, since it was only $2.
if someone find a better item please let me know. i really need this (already bought expensive 50' vga cord) :(

Works great, no complaints. It's a d-sub Y splitter so there's not that much to write about and I don't have any complaints. Image quality was just as good as it was before. Gave 4 stars because I have neither a similar product to compare to nor the desire to do any extensive testing.