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thanks for watching tech quickie click the subscribe button and enable notifications with the bell icon so you won't miss any future videos remember what a big deal cordless phones were in the 80s and 90s well it wasn't too long before engineers expanded this untethering idea to other gadgets so nowadays we've got 2.4 gigahertz gaming headsets Bluetooth Christmas lights and enough LTE signals flying through the air to make any passing extraterrestrials think that we communicate solely through some kind of primitive form of hieroglyphics but one modern device has lagged behind the others in this era of wireless keyboards wireless mice and wireless networking our monitors seem to be the one thing that still needs a long clunky cable running across the desk so what gives well for starters this observation isn't completely true there are wireless display standards that have been around for quite some time and I'm not talking about features like casting where your phone or your device just sends an instruction over Wi-Fi for your TV to access a YouTube video or whatever I'm talking about real ways to connect a display and have it show anything you'd like just as you would with the wired monitor that might be sitting on your desk right now one currently popular option is miracast this is essentially an HDMI connection over Wi-Fi that works if you're using a computer or other device that has Wi-Fi built in the nice thing about miracast is that it doesn't need to go through a router rather it forms a direct connection from your computer to your display so you can use it even if your wireless network is slow or if there isn't one available at all in Windows 10 simply click connect in the Action Center and that will cause your system to scan for available miracast displays click the one you'd like to connect to and you are all set in theory although there are displays with miracast baked in as well as HDMI adapters that enable it miracast isn't compatible with everything Android devices dropped support for it some time ago Mac and iOS users in I'd have to use airplay which by the way does require a proper Wi-Fi network and for devices without Wi-Fi at all like a desktop PC well no luck there either so if you want some more flexibility you might want to look in a standalone wireless display kit that lets you plug an HDMI connected transmitter into your PC or your source device even a camera for example and an HDMI receiver to your display these devices often use standards that transmit data quickly enough to avoid the huge loss in video quality through compression that can be a big problem with Wi-Fi based solutions so then with all those benefits and both miracast and standalone kits even supporting 5.1 surround audio just like a physical HDMI cable why aren't we all using them right now well it turns out you're gonna run into issues no matter which wireless display implementation you choose even if you go for a low compression non Wi-Fi solution because wireless connections are nearly always slower than their Wired counterparts and wireless display techno exception it's more difficult for these signals to carry the higher amounts of data needed for a high-res picture so want 4k well get ready to spend a lot of money if you can find something at all and of course we haven't even gotten to the elephant in the room the slow elephant in the room lag because these compressed wireless signals require extra processing at both ends you'll probably experience more latency with a wireless display this means that you'll have small delays when you do anything like move your mouse or type a sentence which might be fine for writing an email or giving a PowerPoint presentation but it can be so bad as to cause desync issues with video playback and it's almost guaranteed to be a killer for gaming making matters worse many wireless hdmi kits perform best over very short distances and with a direct line of sight between your source device and your display making them once you factor in that you have to run a power cord to them anyway so you're not going full wireless actually a lot more work to setup than you might have initially imagined so then unless you really need a display in a spot where you just can't run a cord to it I wouldn't bother investing money in extra equipment to make your setup wireless for now besides this gives you an opportunity to practice good cable management which I know is everyone's favorite part of setting up their battle station do you find yourself racing against the clock as a freelancer it's challenging but thanks to the Internet there's never been more opportunities for the self-employed I heard that there are even people out there who make videos upload them online and they get paid for it what is that anyway fresh books is the online accounting software that's designed for the way you work it's the simplest and easiest way to be more productive organized and perhaps most importantly get 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