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Intel Might Put Your Laptop On TV [DaddyTech]
With their new Wireless Display technology, Intel might put your laptop on TV. Finally.
There is a ton of great video content online, most of it free. I’m not talking about torrents or file-sharing. A lot of the best stuff is fully authorized. Hulu for example. Have you ever spent time browsing their catalog? It’s not only recent episodes of shows you don’t watch anyway. There are old movies, complete series, all sorts of good stuff.
The problem has always been how the heck do you get that cool stuff to display on your television. The no-longer-new flatscreen TVs that almost everybody has certainly made this task easier; many models have a plain old monitor port that you can use to plug in a PC. Still, that means more wires, as well as finding room for a computer near the television.
There have been ways to transfer video wirelessly from a computer to a television set, but they required the use of clunky dongles and/or dedicated media server devices. As a bonus, most people thought the output sucked.
BUT! Intel may have solved this problem. CNET’s gadget blog Crave asks the question Is Intel’s Wireless Display a game changer? (It’s also called WiDi, which is a dopey but descriptive name.) Here’s a video where they try it out.
It may not be perfect yet, but it’s better than what we had before. Mostly I’m happy that Intel is working on this at all. It seems like the kind of thing that the major networks/content producers would not be all that happy about. Think about it. Sure, they’ll put their shows online. But if you want to watch that show on a TV screen, they want you to look at commercials. For example, Hulu blocked Boxee users from viewing their content in February of 2009.
So is WiDi a sign that major networks are loosening up a bit in terms of how we view our content? In the words of the great Kent Brockman, only time will tell.
Hands-on: Is Intel’s Wireless Display a game changer? | Crave – CNET
Also:
Intel announces WiDi HD wireless display technology (Engadget)
