Intel announces WiDi HD wireless display technology
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted January 7th 2010 8:05PM
posted January 7th 2010 8:05PM
posted January 7th 2010 8:05PM
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THIS IS PWNSOME
Like like like like.
Does this go with all those great Intel IGPs that offer such great HD support?
I kid, I kid!
Devices like the Zune HD need this functionality. How sweet would it be to wireless stream 720 p from a small portable device?
Also, is the i7, such as that in the Envy 15, really not supported?
@obiwantoby
I would guess that is a typo.
@Mitch
No IGP, wrong chipset. I doubt the mobile quad core i7s will work with this.
If there is no I7 support this thing is a really really big down fall ...
How exactly do you pronounce that... "WhyDie"?
@Blahman
I think it is WeeDy
@Blahman I think it's like what you sound like when you say "Witty" with your mouth full of peanut butter, and a cold.
@Blahman
My brain pronounces it like WiFi, but with a D, and I dunno about you guys, but I pronounce WiFi as "Penis."
Come on, guys, it's "Wide Eye".
@Levi lol,
u'r funny xD
But will it stream 3D video to my tablet?
But what if I have an iCore7 Laptop?
Like the new Studio XPS 16 from Dell?
So does this only allow streaming audio and video from the laptop, or does this also allow you to use the TV as a secondary monitor wirelessly? I would be really excited if the latter applied.
Yah seriously, engadget - you guys need to get the story on the i7. Seems ridiculous that Intel would leave out it's flagship chip on something this huge.
WHAT!
You NEED an i5 or i7 cpu?!?!?!
I thought this was going to be similar to WiFi where you can put it in many things >:U
@Drybones5
Yeah I thought WiDi was supposed to be like a standard, like WiFi. I expected a box that you could hook crap up to and it would broadcast up to HD signals wirelessly to the TV.
Eventually igp will be the intel standard and Amd will release their own version.
How does it feel to be obsolete?
@M C
I don't feel obsolete except for my cell phone.
I feel like Intel is full of idiots
WTF you NEED an INTEL IGP? >_
I'm more disappointed that the ULV chips don't have it.
Realistically, the i7QM chips have bad enough battery life that you're going to be plugged in anyway. What's one more cord to the TV?
Seems like a very narrow list of supported hardware.
Is the supported hardware limitation an artificial one?
Why does this require a Core iX? (Assuming they mean at LEAST a Core i5?)
Also, I thought this was supposed to be a tech where you hook everything up to a box, and it broadcasts the signals throughout the house, like WiFi does for the internet. This is cool too, since swapping out a game console's HDMI to hook in the laptop is kind of annoying. But not worth $100.
Why Die HD?
NICE!
read what the competition says:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3715
This is absurd. Go to Monoprice and get a 25' HDMI or VGA cable for your laptop. It would work with any computer with any operating system, and cost less than $20 even for HDMI.
Ahh! A proprietary locked in alternative to UPnP/DLNA media streaming! Fantastic, just what the world needs!
Just put realtime H.264 encoding hardware into a computer and use it as a UPnP/DLNA MediaServer. Then it'll stream to nearly any reasonable quality modern display on the planet (as DLNA is becoming nearly ubiquotous).
This announcement makes me ill; after years of trying to support UPnP standards, Intel's turning around and pissing all over the standards based approach with some BS proprietary cruft.
This is the demo they presented at CES 2010. It's basically a how to setup the WiDI guide :http://www.thehdstandard.com/hardwaresoftware-solutions-for-streaming/pc-to-tv-wireless-720p-streaming-from-intel/
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