Tripp Lite, TRPB1501A1HDMI, B150-1A1-HDMI Video Console/Extender, Black

I have used a Tripp Lite VGA splitter/extender over CAT5 for six years. The device was starting to give out so I look at options. Going to DisplayPort made sense in terms of where display is going while it was more practical than the HDMI options in terms of price and requirements. With a new graphics card (with two DisplayPort jacks) and monitors (replacing fairly old ones) I upgraded my setup with the DisplayPort to HDMI extender. My setup involves mirroring the family desktop monitor from the basement office to the kitchen. At first I had serious problems getting the second monitor not consistently showing (hence four stars instead of five). Hours of troubleshooting I concluded the problem was with following directions: powering the transmitter from a USB port on my desktop tower was causing some sort of conflict with the transmitter or the graphics card. Don't know exactly but once I plugged the USB cable into a adapter brick everything has worked flawlessly ever since. going to a pure digital signal from VGA signal is very nice. It's also nice that Windows can accurately scale the resolution of the screens, whereas it never quite got the VGA correctly and I had to choose an aspect ratio that was not consistent with the specs for my old monitors.