The Best Thing at CES - Intel's Wireless HD Technology

Anandtech ^ | January 7th, 2010 | Anand Lal Shimpi

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Ok, I'm pretty sure I just saw the coolest thing at CES. The eReaders, Smartbooks, eReader Netbooks, etc... are neat but I haven't seen anything I'd actually like to buy yet. Even Microsoft's Slate PC announcement was a disappointment. But this next thing is pretty sweet.

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It's called Intel Wireless HD technology and it works like this. Press a button on your notebook and within a matter of seconds the notebook will wirelessly send its display over to your TV.

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The communication happens via 802.11n and requires a receiving box hooked up to your TV. Your screen is sent compressed and up/downscaled to 720p, regardless of source resolution. The box is super tiny as it's basically a decoder chip and HDMI output.

[battlecry]

I thought it was a wireless hard drive.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Reading thru the comments on the article found this:

GUW2015VKIT - Wireless USB to VGA Kit

from IOGEAR....I use some of their stuff.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

A Newegg:

IOGEAR Wireless USB to VGA Kit GUW2015VKIT Wireless Interface -

Retail Original Price: $169.99 You Save: $30.00 $139.99 Free Shipping*

[InterceptPoint]

I’m amazed that this is considered some sort of breakthrough or something. I’ve been doing this via a Home Theater PC and a home LAN for years. I can view BluRay, DVD or any MPEG2 or MPEG4 files from any computer on my network on my 65” Sharp LCD. Works like a charm. All this technology does is add wireless. That’s niece but hooking up a PC with DVI or HDMI outputs to a modern HDTV is pretty old hat.

[BreezyDog]

There actually be some stuff at CES that sends a 1080p signal to your TV without the HDMI cable from your AVR.

That my friends is a technological breakthrough...It would eliminate everything except power and speaker cables.

[BreezyDog]

Here's my next wireless Sony

[Domandred]

Does it do audio too? From what I could tell just did video only.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I think the intel solution only does 720P at this point....but Best Buy and HP were on CNBC talking about their specially jointly designed laptop to do that...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Well,...I think you can play a DVD movie so I assume it has audio.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I think the breadthru is a marketing thing...and it is apparently integrated into some laptops....that is what is new from what I understand....and there may be some of the new TV's that can receive the signal;...

They want to sell stuff you know!

[InterceptPoint]

Here is where I think TV is going.

New HDTVs will have wired and wireless Ethernet, WiFi, nearly automatic integration into your Home Network, Codecs for all the popular audio and video formats for streaming off of the computers on your network, a Hard Drive, memory chip readers, a browser of sorts for Internet access, hopefully some Mozilla variant, Bluetooth for Mouse/Keyboard support, at least a YouTube button on the Remote, possibly others that are programmable to access web video sites.

This is pretty much what you get with an HDTV plus a PlayStation 3. I just think that the HDTV guys will build all of that into the TVs. Just seems inevitable to me.

[Publius6961]

BUMP!