Amimon WHDI stick reproduces your screen on your TV, wirelessly

October 6, 2010 By Nick Mokey

Amimon’s WHDI Stick sends wireless HD signals to your TV, without a transmitter the size of a fist.

The dark days of tethering your laptop to a three-foot HDMI cable in order to throw a little YouTube, South Park or Hulu up on the big screen may soon be over. And no, the answer is not a $1,500 home theater PC. Amimon unveiled a solution on Tuesday with the WHDI Stick, a wireless HD transmitter that plugs into any computer and transmits full HD signals to a television. The company bills it as the smallest such device on the market, potentially making it more much practical than some of the behemoths we’ve seen before.

Because it simply takes standard digital signals in on one end and spits them out on the other, the WDHI stick requires no drivers: Just plug one end into an HDMI output and the other end into an HDMI input. The transmitting end does require a USB cable for power, though.

Amimom claims the WHDI Stick introduces less than one millisecond of latency, which should make it practical for big-screen gaming from a laptop, and broadcasts up to 100 feet. Like all WHDI products, it uses a 40MHz channel in the 5GHz unlicensed band, which gives it enough bandwidth to broadcast full, uncompressed images to the screen. It will even support all the same 3D formats as a standard HDMI 1.4a cable and HDCP revision 2.0.

The company won’t sell the WHDI Stick directly, but OEMs should be selling different versions of it by the first quarter of 2011, probably for around $150.

Showing 5 comments

Big O at 11:38am 26th December 2010 Where can this product be purchased?
alterseekers at 11:41am 30th November 2010 Here's another awesome way to stream those HD videos from your laptop on to your HDTV. If you're looking for an alternative though, I suggest trying out the Netgear Push2TV product. This device makes use of the HDMI port on the HDTV and acts as a wireless adapter, displaying what you see on your laptop on to your HDTV. So instead of connecting the laptop via an HDMI cable, the Netgear Push2TV takes its place, and wirelessly streams the contents of your laptop even if they're in separate rooms in the house. To know more about Netgear's Push2TV product, just check it out here, http://bit.ly/bByST7. I'm sure you'll love it too.
LPT at 8:42am 11th October 2010 can this be used to control a HTPC from a laptop without using VNC software
Bill at 6:16pm 9th October 2010 What happens when you and your neighbor both have a WHDI? With 100 foot range who's WHDI will prevail?
1. ioman at 6:56pm 9th October 2010 Both, each has its own unique signal. Each pack comes with a transmitter and receiver. "Just plug one end into an HDMI output and the other end into an HDMI input." Hope that helps!