Plugable USB 2.0 to HDMI, DVI, or VGA I Multi-Monitor External Video Graphics Card Adapter up to 1920x1080 Supports Windows 11, 10, 8.1, 7, XP, Mac, and ChromeOS

I'm very satisfied with the Plugable UGA-165 USB 2.0 to VGA/DVI/HDMI Adapter. It works perfectly and installed with no problems. Matter of fact, the moment I plugged in the USB connection to my PC, the drivers downloaded automatically so I didn't need to use the CD that came with the product, nor did I need the link provided in e-mail by Plugable Technologies (they wrote even before the product arrived). Btw, their website was an excellent source of information about this product and helped me in my decision to buy. My system: Dell Inspiron 660 Desktop PC Intel Core i3-3240 CPU @3.40 GHz 8 GB RAM 64-bit OS Windows 7 Home Premium with Service Pack 1 Intel HD Graphics w/1696 MB total available Graphics Memory I'm running extended desktop on two Viewsonic VA2246M 22-inch 1080p monitors using the Dell's VGA output to one and the Dell's HDMI to the other through an HDMI-to-DVI adapter (these Viewsonics don't have HDMI inputs). I'm now using the HDMI output of the Plugable UGA-165 connected to one of the Dell's USB 2.0 ports. I have an Orion (Sansui) HDTV with HDMI input in my computer area and the Plugable is supplying video to that as the "third" monitor of the Dell's extended desktop display. Windows Control Panel 'Display' /Change Display Settings was easy to setup and manipulate with the third monitor in the chain. It recognized it immediately. All monitors are running at 1920x1080 resolution. There is no distinguishable lag in the display running off of the Plugable UGA-165. I noticed that the LED light on the Plugable blinked a lot whenever there was video activity on the monitor for which it was providing the signal. Not a problem at all. I assume the LED light was just "eye candy" indicating processing activity. For a test I played a video stream on Windows Media Player and positioned the player's video playback "box" between the Orion and one of the Viewsonic's (a sort of split screen). There was a slight time-delay on the Plugable. I have no way to measure it, but let's just say it was an eye blink slower than the VGA and/or DVI supplied monitors. Again, no problem at all in my opinion. The Plugable UGA-165 does get a tad bit warm when on. But then, so do other devices plugged into the UBS 2.0 or 3.0 ports. It's a worthy and value-packed investment. I can see it being very beneficial in a number of video/PC environments, particularly those who do video editing and want to have several programs open at once. Even my little Dell with an Intel i3 holds up fairly well when each of the (now) three screens have something running in them (Adobe Premiere Elements editing program, Photoshop, and Acoustica Mixcraft6). It is definitely a great product and opened up a lot of visual landscape at my computer workstation.

*****UPDATE and Video showing the product in use***** Created a basic video review showing this product working with a laptop and also the Dell Venue 8 Pro. Check it out if you have any questions about whether you should order it or not. After a couple months now, I can honestly say it is the best purchase I could have made! That video can be seen here http://youtu.be/PzOX4JOGibE ***** original review below***** First purchase of a Plugable product, but I have to say I am really impressed so far. Got online originally to look them up for a dock. After looking, I emailed customer support and asked some questions. They quickly responded with the suggestion for this to connect to a monitor from my Dell Venue 8 pro. Could have pushed a higher priced dock, but listened to what I wanted and after things installed (all I had to do was plug it in) it works as advertised. Have comes with adapters to hook up via DVI, HDMI, or VGA from any USB 2.0 port. I can now hook my laptop up to a third monitor even if I choose to. Wish I had stumbled on their products sooner. Best part was customer service also made sure to remind me of the fact that I would still need an OTG cable, and a couple other suggestions that they did not have to take the time to do. I already knew what they suggested, but only because I had done some research. THey seemed to really want to make sure things worked out of the box. I will confidently buy from them in the future. Everything from the packaging to the products is well done. Connections turn and swivel to make life easier. Great Job Plugable.

It is so nice to have something that works just right out of the box. When my desktop died, I tried to connect my Laptop (Toshiba Protege) with two monitors, and still want to be able to use the native LCD screen. With this device, I am able to connect Screen 1 to the VGA port on the Laptop, Screen 2 to the Plugable, and install the drivers. Now, I have screen 1, 2, 3 to arrange in any order I like. I particularly like the fact that I can "lift" screens on top of each other in addition to the left/right horizontal set up I've had for years. The two big monitors are on a stand, so they are naturally higher than the LCD ... now I virtually make them higher too, so moving and placing things make intuitive sense. Re: reviewer comment regarding poor HD video performance, I tried this out and I had no significant problem. I have full 1080p HD video file, captured on a Canon HD camcorder, playing on the monitor that's connected through Plugable. Actually, I set up the worst case scenario - video file on an external hard drive, connected through a Plugable USB 2.0 hub, into the laptop. I compared HD video performance on the laptop LCD, the VGA Port monitor, and the Plugable monitor. There is no difference between VGA and LCD (naturally), and slightly degradation on Plugable, but not freezing and distortion. Just slightly noticeable pixelation, perhaps. Actually, the only thing that "flickers" is not the moving image, but the corner of the Media Player Window itself. When my mouse pointer hover over the "X", it flickers. That's all. I also tested this with similar video files on the laptop's hard drive. No significant difference. Just want to add to all the positive comments already ... this works so well.

[Edit: Just to clarify, this review applies to my experience using this product with my iMac (mid-2011) and Mac OS X (El Capitan 10.11). When testing the same adapter on the same iMac, but in Windows 7 (via Boot Camp), I experienced far superior performance. Mousing was as smooth as it usually is in Windows. I attribute this to a difference in the DisplayLink software between Windows and OS X. This software is not made by Plugable, but since it is needed to use the product, I have to review the performance of the product as a complete working unit including this software. If performance of the hardware/software improves on Macs, I will update this review.] It's difficult to assign this product a rating because it's essentially a hack to allow something that shouldn't be possible; do you rate it 100% for working at all, or do you deduct stars for issues that may be intrinsically unsolvable? As Plugable itself says, you aren't intended to run things with fast refresh rates like games and movies on the monitor connected via this product. If you have a CPU gauge being displayed (on another screen, preferably) while even performing lesser tasks like web-browsing on the USB-connected monitor, you'll see that the CPU usage rises when an object of any real size is being updated, like dragging a window. This is not really an issue unless something on that monitor was continuously re-drawing and it caused your computer to heat up, which would take anywhere from a few minutes to an hour of constant usage (and that's what fans are for, anyway). But the CPU usage and the low update speed demonstrate that this method of connection is being strained to its limits. I knew this going in, and didn't feel that it would be an issue because I was using it to connect a second screen which mostly displays static material such as documentation. However, I hadn't realized that the mouse cursor would be so choppy. Smooth mouse control is sort of a tradition on the Mac, and it's jarring to have the cursor refresh so slowly. It's not just an aesthetic issue; it makes it difficult or unpleasant to perform much mousing on the connected screen. After a while spent moving the mouse and clicking on various controls, you will long to return to the comforting smoothness of a normally-connected (or built-in) monitor. It was so irritating that, for a while, I connected the monitor by HDMI again. But unfortunately, I have to use that port (actually Thunderbolt, using a Thunderbolt-to-HDMI adapter) for a hard drive in order to get decent speed from it (there's only one Thunderbolt port and no USB 3.0 ports on this 2011 iMac), so I found myself hooking this adapter up again and just doing my best to keep any material that requires a lot of mousing on the built-in screen. Update (Jan. 2016): After comparing this adapter's performance between OS X and Windows, I can see that the DisplayLink driver software is really holding it back. The driver runs much better in Windows, affording smooth mouse control, and generally seems to update more frequently during tasks like dragging windows. Hopefully some day its support for OS X will improve. Besides the limitation of the third-party software, I find the actual Plugable product to function reliably (except for a short sleepy-head period when the Mac first wakes up and the USB-connected monitor takes several seconds to get going, which might be the fault of the DisplayLink software as well). Despite its limitations, I would still recommend this product for any other people with the same niche need -- for a monitor that bypasses their usual display port and that doesn't need to refresh quickly.

I'm running an OpenMediaVault 7 server that only has USB 2 ports on the ITX motherboard. Needed a way to get a monitor on the system for local support without having to swap out the PCI-e cards. Purchased this and plugged it into one of the ports with the VGA adapter, connected a monitor and it just worked. Debian detected the device immediately as a DisplayLink device, assigned the appropriate drivers, and brought the monitor online. If you're running an older motherboard with linux on it, this should work just fine with a recent version of your distribution. Was exactly what I needed.

This solved my problem! Had a laptop with a usb-c that does not support video, so I could not do dual monitors. This allowed me to use my laptop usb drive, connect it to this adapter and an hdmi to hdmi cable to my monitor. (My other monitor connects directly to hdmi port in laptop.). Works great!

Just plug and play! Very pleased with this product.

I bought the Plugable 2.0 to allow me to use multiple monitors. Overall, the operational performance is fantastic. Plug it into a USB port and it auto syncs with monitor. The resolution is great and it allows viewing multiple excell, powerpoint, word Docs on different screens, a real time saver by Eliminating the need to constantly jumping between files. My issue is the quality of some of the part. The display driver to hdmi component is formed by joining two plastic cases together. The pins/glue failed on mine and the parts have separated placing stress on the wire bundle between the hdmi plug and the display adapter. Very disappointing. Otherwise, I would be giving this product a 5 star rating. This happened just as I was considering getting the USB 3.0 version to see what performance uplift it would provide. Update: Plugable contacted me about the issue and offered to immediately send a replacement for the defective item. Raising rating based on great customer serviceabd timely response. Been traveling, item arrived home before me. Will update after testing replacement. Update 2: received replacement and works perfectly, great customer service

The use of a second monitor has been an integral part of my computing experience for a few years now in both desktop and laptop (at home or work). I have recently begun contemplating the use of a third display (and possibly more) ever since I have begun using virtual machines extensively. To my dismay I found out that the laptop I use as my main machine (3 yr old model) does not support the use of both its graphics output ports (VGA + HDMI) at the same time. Conveniently enough at roughly the same time period I came across the entry for the plugable USB2 UGA multi-display adapter in amazon. I thought it was worth a try as the price was not prohibitive for a bit of experimentation. I was positively impressed by the email I received before the product was delivered pointing me towards more online information as well as the latest drivers (thumbs up for good customer support). When the UGA adapter arrived, the installation process in Windows 7 Ultimate went without any problems whatsoever. The integration with the graphics interface in windows is flawless as far as I am concerned. On the down side I have observed a bit of a lag upon occasion on the third display (the one connected on the USB port via the adapter) expecially when playing back video on this display with loads of other things going on in the laptop. I take this to mean that there is some computing overhead in the use of the UGA adapter but I have not looked into this any further as it does not bother me for my intended use of the product. I find it really interesting (and convenient for my case) that when I am running a virtual machine (for example linux) and I have this displayed in the monitor connected to the UGA adapter there is no detectable lag even when playing video in the virtual machine (the device driver for the adapter is still running in the host system which for my case in Win 7). Summarizing, I find the UGA adapter very usefull with right pricing and up to spec operation.

Se ve bien la imagen a 1080p.

A bit big and clunky, but works well

usato per convertire il segnale dal mio synth MODX yamaha per poter usufruire di un touch screen esterno, si comporta benissimo e senza sbavatura alcuna. Di dimensioni ridotte e ben concepito con i suoi adattatori, risulta essere un'ottimo strumento che mi ha permesso di estendere in modo eccellente il piccolo schermo touch, difficoltoso da utilizzare con le dita (troppe cose in troppo poco spazio) del MODX ad un ben più consistente touch screen a 15".

This is an awesome product. I have been trying to run a third monitor on my late 2014 mac mini for weeks now. Apple only allows two monitors to be run on this mac mini. After trying several adapters from usb to vga, dvi, or hdmi, I was to the point of giving up. I ordered this video adapter and it worked perfectly. It's basically plug and play with the exception of a simple download of the driver - if that makes any sense. In other words, Just a matter of a fast download and a click to active. The process is clearly outlined in the instructions provided. It works perfectly with a crystal clear picture and shows up as a third monitor in my display settings. Highly recommended.