Hikity 10 Inch Small HDMI Monitor Portable CCTV Monitors 1280×600 with BNC, AVI, VGA, HDMI Input Cable, Remote Control, Built-in Speakers, for PC,…

The unit won’t power up. It must be defective.

I bought this to pair with an older iMac to sit on my desk below my main monitors for primarily texting purposes. It works very well for that and the picture quality is good. The only reason I subtract one star is it has difficulty recognizing the Mac and displaying the screen when I restart or let the Mac go to sleep. I usually have to power-cycle the monitor to get the picture back, so I don’t let it sleep. For my purposes, it works very well.

I was looking for a small 10″ monitor to run my security camera footage through and this fits the bill for that. It’s not ultra HD, but I don’t need that. I just need to be able to see enough to know when there’s a security issue that I need to playback or zoom in for.

This is not a touch screen model, but then again it did not advertise itself as such, so I’m not worried about that.

However, the power cord, as others have mentioned, is SO VERY short. I thought the reviewers who mentioned a short cord couldn’t possibly mean as short as it is, but really, it’s just about 2′ long, which means you will need an extension for it if you want to mount it anywhere near eye level to see it. We wanted it half-way up the wall on a desk shelf, and it’s too short for that. I can get an extension cord easily, but it adds to the overall cost of the item and it adds more bulk in terms of cords and such laying around.

The stand is quite difficult to adjust. The attachment mechanism is just a small square washer on a plastic bolt that is supposed to slide into a slit. There are no instructions at all for how to set this part up, but if you play around long enough and use the pictures on Amazon to help, then you can figure it out. However, even after the stand has been attached, it is so short that it does not lift the monitor above the HDMI cord coming out of the bottom. To have the cord itself not tip over the monitor, you have to push the stand way down low, to where it’s almost falling out of the slit. This also limits the range of motion to adjust it. I finally after a long session of cussing and frustration got it adjusted well enough so that the monitor sits up flat on a shelf without being tipped over by its own cords, but I fear it is not so sturdy, as the stand is at the very bottom edge of hanging on to get enough height to tuck the cords underneath. I may need to look for a different stand for it, again adding to the expense. At the moment, it is sitting up well, though, but just barely.

There are screw holes for putting the thing into the wall itself, but they are very small and I’m not sure screws that small will hold it well. It also seems like it will be quite challenging to then attach the plate back to the monitor after it has been screwed into the wall. For now I have it standing on the shelf like I wanted. I suspect that if I do want one day to hang it on the wall that I’ll need to buy a different holder for it, adding even more to the overall expense for the item.

For now, it’s adjusted and sitting on a shelf with the cords behind it and it’s working great for what I wanted in terms of an affordable monitor for my security camera system. I suppose, since it was $40 less than comparable brands that probably had better stands, that I’ve still come out ahead, but I wish there’d been a bit more attention paid to the design of the stand and the length of the power cord so that this worry would be gone, not to mention the frustration.

I used the small tv for my teleprompter. So I need to v-flip the image. There is a hidden menu in the TV. And the customer/tech support is quick to resolve my issue, demonstrating how to access the hidden feature. Thanks for the tech support. This is of best value.