We've long said that wireless video streaming direct from a laptop is one of our dream gadgets, and while
most of the gear we've seen is based on
Wireless USB, it looks like Netgear's trying something a little different: this PTV1000 Push 2 TV Adapter just hit the FCC database, and it looks to send video from your laptop to your TV over WiFi. It's apparently built on an upcoming Intel standard called Wireless Display that requires a Core i3, i5, or i7 processor with integrated GMA graphics and Windows 7, but nothing's been officially announced yet -- and what little info we have isn't great, as the docs warn users that Wireless Display is unsecured and won't play all DVDs or Blu-rays. That's not a huge problem, we suppose -- all we want to do is beam a Hulu window to our TV simply and easily. We're assuming we'll find out a lot more at CES next week, stay tuned.
posted January 1st 2010 3:09AM
Why anyone can get picture before they release it ?,
what a useless secret!!
Happy New Year :D
It's a great little device and from my experience it will be very useful to stream things from your laptop to the TV or a projector wirelessly.
At least clean it before taking the picture.
@Psyg
You have no idea what the photographer had to do to take that picture. I just hope he can walk alright.
@Psyg Uhhh, you do know that these are the photos that the FCC takes, right? Hence why the sources is the FCC, as it says both in the article and the link on the bottom.
Maybe that was just too easy to see.
-Brian
I'd like to know why products always look like utter rubbish in FCC photographs - is it to give it an extra lustre at release, or do they take to it with a hammer to test its durability?
This time it seems they quickly without much care removed the stickers on top of it for taking the picture, it's clearly residue of 3 large stickers.
Which makes you wonder what the hell netgear used as glue, those device stickers should be easy to remove, and remove cleanly.
But maybe it were stickers the FCC put on it to identify it while in storage?
Now here's the real question: If you want this to stream Hulu, will it be cheap enough to be a better idea than spending $200 on an ION-based box for streaming?
@ShyGuy91284
If you have a laptop, just buy a cheap cable at monoprice (I got 15 feet of VGA for $5 and it's thick, durable and even has audio connectors) then you can basically do the same as this thing.
@Philip Han
But it won't be wireless...
I love how the FCC pictures look so crappy. These actually better represent what they will eventually look like in the average home. If any of these devices are handled for more than 5 minutes (fingerprints!), or are left to collect dust for more than 24 hours, they will not look like the super-perfect images that the manufacturers like to pump out.
It kind of reminds me of the photos of the Big Mac/Whopper vs what you will ACTUALLY get in the bag.
@ferrell Well most of these devices would be picked up from the box, set in the entertainment center and then the power button would probably be pressed enough, though that's about it.
NOOO!!!
I WANT VIDEO TO MY LAPTOP!!!
I just want god damned video streamed TO my laptop. Slingbox is an option but $300 for 1080i only? WTF? And I don't need any other function but streaming TO my laptop.
@Philip Han
However, this isn't too much of a bad idea besides the fact that it's a huge box requiring an i* processor...
@Philip Han
The box is not that big and it doesn't require an i processor. A T9800 processor will work.
I just want something that I can plug in to my network and stream
video from my server to my TV without having a dedicated PC or
breaking the bank.
This requires me to have a PC with at least an i-something processor?
Fail.
"all we want to do is beam a Hulu window to our TV simply and easily"
Maybe that's all YOU want to do. But my needs are a little more complicated. I think this one trick pony will be DOA.
I can say that this device will do more than just show Hulu on your TV. Think of it has being something like a projector but without the wires.
This Netgear PTV1000 Push 2 TV WiFi video card looks like a whole bunch of crap to me