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hey guys it's Brandon minimun from pocketnow.com and in this video I'm going to demonstrate the HDMI output on the Motorola Droid X let's get to it okay so the Droid X like the HTC EVO 4G has this HDMI output they are among the first devices to have this which is really handy but you really can't do much with it as I'm going to show you in this video now this cable that I have I got off of ebay for about ten dollars it's an HDMI type D connector I'll put a link up in the description and in the post in case you want to get one for yourself so I'm just gonna plug it in and show you how it works you can't do too many things with it so I'm gonna turn on the Droid X unlock the screen there are some settings associated with HDMI not that many you can change the HDMI format to a variety of resolutions here I try to put it on 720p 50 Hertz and this relatively new TV couldn't handle it's kind of strange so I leave it on automatic and that seems to do it so you have to be in the gallery to get this to work so I'm gonna jump into the gallery where I have here a video a video that I've recorded on the device and if I wait a second the TV is going to change into the playback so just give it a second and what's happening is it's just sitting on the playback screen and eventually it will recognize that it's time to play it on the on the TV okay and now it recognized that this is what happens and you're going to see the video go fullscreen pretty good this is 720p video being scaled to 1080p so it doesn't look terribly great but it's smooth the playback is smooth I'll let you listen for a sec so imagine if you recorded a soccer game on here or something like that and you're at your friend's house and really quick you want to just put it up on the TV this is a great way to do it since the Droid X doesn't support that many video formats like DivX it's gonna be a little bit limiting it's not likely that you will you know download a full movie on your computer transfer it to your droid X and have it play because it's just not that versatile so we can go back to the previous screen I'll show you how this looks with photos so I'm just going to tap on one of these photos these are very high resolution photos although they're going to output in only 1080 by 720 resolution it's not going to scale it up but of course that may have to do with the TV setting so I can press over here kind of go through a slideshow of pictures it's a nice touch or I can press the play button just to get it to automatically go through say I just took some pictures on my device I want to show off what I took and so smooth transitions it works it works it would be really nice if this HDMI out actually outputted everything that's on the screen at all time so that I could have this on the screen I could play YouTube I could read my email all those sort of things but right now the Droid Acton doesn't support that many things so again I'll put a link up in the description and in the post on how to get this HDMI connector it's about ten bucks and it's good to have if you have a Droid X an Evo 4G or any other smartphone that has the HDMI output please thumbs up the video if you liked it and thanks for watching