WHDI Reviews – Wireless HDTV News

Much as I dislike the lack of thought behind naming products sometimes, I must admit that they can be quite amusing sometimes. Here we have the EzAir — a kit that will connect your HDTV to your laptop or netbook wirelessly and effortlessly. This solution is meant to be plug and play and should work with any computer that has an Intel Atom 1.6GHz processor or faster.

Using he EzAir EZR601AV kit is simple enough. You plug in a USB dongle to your computer and you plug the other part in to your HDTV. You get two cables to get this second part done — VGA and HDMI. The EZR601AV can process resolutions of up to 1400×1050. It allows you to transmit your computer screen to the HDTV or you can choose to stream a 720p quality video stream to your TV. Which seems to mean that you cannot stream video at 1400×1050. It is likely unable to handle that high a resolution for a proper video experence.

This one’s going to be available in Japan on the 12th of this month. There’s of course no news of whether we are likely to see it outside of Japan. The price there is roughly around $147, which is slightly on the higher side but then that is because of how the Japanese economy compares to the US economy. If it does come outside Japan for  stroll, it will likely be found selling for a price that is closer to $100.

As HDTV’s become more and more ubiquitous, we are likely to see more and more of these devices in markets everywhere. Even though we want our computers to be as portable as possible, we still want to watch our visual content on large screens in high resolutions. So bridging technologies like this one are only going to get more popular.

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