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today I'm going to be doing an unboxing if something that's a little bit different from what I usually talk about on my channel this is the materia and what it is is essentially a way of wirelessly transmitting HDMI data to your TV from your Mac ok so let's go ahead and have a look at the back this actually won the best of show award at the at Macworld 2011 so here you go brings your Mac screen to HDTV via Wi-Fi and you can control your Mac from the TV ok so we've got like kind of a wirelessly looking symbol we've got kind of a wirelessly looking symbol and a wireless silicon symbol it all goes here and then you are able to control it from your TV so your Mac doesn't even actually have to be in the same room it works off Wi-Fi actually here we can have a look at the Mac PC requirements really quick so it requires a dual-core 1.4 gigahertz or better it requires a graphics card with 128 Meg's of RAM or more so pretty much anything in the recent past Mac OS 10.5 plus ok here's some recommended models excellent oh ok apparently works on PC as well look at that with Vista or Windows 7 ok well that's that's neat Sahin alright wirelessly bringing the Mac screen to the TV with synchronized audio even remotely operate your Mac from the TV with standard USB keyboard and mouse also works as a home wireless access point that's cool and support for PC Center for Windows 7 Vista through additional software ok let's open this up and have a look at it so the first thing we find inside is please visit us for the latest drivers and firmware updates and manual download a that's great advice isn't it don't use this please visit us for the latest thank you guys I appreciate that there is a quick installation guide so since I'm actually curious about how to install this we are going to take a closer look for a change alright before you start there are four set up possibilities you can use Ethernet so that's going to give you the best performance versus using wireless all right next is using a powerline adapter powerline provides very good performance I mean really it's it's right up there with wired if you have good clean power in your house and if you have a decent powerline adapter so that's another good recommendation partly wireless that is reasonable performance okay so if a wireless connection is preferred you can connect your home access point and NICTA via via cables and access either from your home ap or from McGee via ok and then there's purely Wireless which is basic performance you can also try setting up Activia as a wireless client to your home AP by an AP client mode however the setup is more complicated and vulnerable to any interference in the Wi-Fi signal ok so they give you a bunch of different options for how to use it and the video quality actually can scale with how good your connection is so let's go ahead and see what we've got in here in terms of accessories there's a box oh wow it's a lot smaller than I thought look at this picture on the outside of the box looks like huge doesn't it looks like the size of like a big boom router but it's not at all ok so why don't we let's check out the accessories first oh boy lots of different adapters so I will be needing this one that is actually a pretty neat way of doing this rather than create international versions of their product they create one SKU make sure it's not everything you need make sure that this is compatible with either 120 volt or 240 volt and then boom you just clip in your thing if you're not planning on traveling anywhere in the near future then you just throw these out because you clearly don't need them and you just use the one you need ok so that's just an AC to DC adapter and that will plug into the neck tibia obviously I'm gonna be having to do a follow-up video on this one showing you guys its performance in the real world I'll use I'll borrow a Mac from cameraman and we'll probably demo it on the tech tips TV right behind me which does use HDMI so it's got kind of a looking mirror finish on it it's got a couple of antennas here here we are all right so go ahead and throw those on there pretty neat-looking little box actually but basically what you can do on I'm just gonna finish up by getting this all assembled here and then I'll talk a little bit more about it okay all right power button on the front on the side you see some of the housing on the other side you see some of the housing this feels like it's made of aluminum that would be my guess but you know it feels very very solid it's got some some heft to it it doesn't feel cheaply made at all you got rubber feet on the bottom so wherever you put it down it's not gonna slip if you put it down on a cloth then obviously it can move around it if you put it down on something that's not a cloth then it's not going to move around at all all right on the back we have our Ethernet port so that is the way to get the best performance you can also use that Ethernet port with a powerline adapter that works very well as well then we have Wireless so you can use the wireless in those two different ways that we outlined before do you have a USB port so you can use that to plug in a standard keyboard and mouse hub whatever the case may be you can use that to wirelessly control your Mac even if it's not in the same room as you like if you are using power line Ethernet for example your Mac's upstairs boom use that to control it and then we've got the HDMI out and that's gonna go out to your TV and finally we have a power in so I'm actually very excited to try out this product stay tuned guys and I will be showing you the mctavey ax in action