Tag archive: Wireless HD

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… Read More

Asus certainly won’t be the first company to dabble with wireless HD – we took a look at Iogear’s $900 solution back in July – but with an MSRP of just $199, the upcoming Asus WiCast EW2000 PC may just be one of the most promising for cash-strapped home theater enthusiasts. On Tuesday, Asus announced that it has partnered with Amimon, a member of the WHDI coalition, to provide the essential chips powering the EW2000. Amimon was a founding… Read More

The world of wireless high-definition video solutions has been marked by far more failures than successes, but Sony and Philips have recently begun marketing solutions and now consumer electronics retailer Best Buy is getting into the game with its new Rocketfish WirelessHD Adapter, enabling users to send full 1080p/60fps HD content up to 10 meters (about 33 feet) without cabling. The technology works with most existing HDMI-capable gear: just… Read More