HP Announces Laptop With Wireless HD Streaming, 3D
HP has been busying unveiling multiple consumer grade laptops lately and they include models that have 3D and wireless HD media streaming capabilities. They are high-end models that focus on good audio, video and over all performance. They are definitely entertainment oriented models and are looking to replace other consumer electronic gadgets in the living room.
The crowning glory of the series has to be the Envy 17 3D model, which part of HP’s flagship line of 17″ laptops that heavily equipped and well-designed. This model is blu-ray ready along with 3D support. Even though the industry norm is to have NVIDIA graphics and shutter glasses, this uses the (now) AMD owned ATI Radeon line for graphics. It has special HP branded features that are supported by a company call XpanD. Since there is very little 3D content available in the market right now, the laptop comes preloaded with some 3D footage of the 2010 NBA AllStar game.
It has a self-branded wireless HD technology at work called the HP Wireless TV Connect. HP decided to build their own standard for streaming a/v from PC to HDTV rather than try their hands at market standards like WHDI, WirelessHD or WiGig. However, it is not locked to HP in any way and should be equally compatible with any computer that has an HDMI out port.
HP has already demoed it at a press event last week and in their demo they used the HP Wireless TV Connect kit to do the connect. Reports say that the demo went without a hitch and a 1080p video streamed perfectly from the PC to the HDTV without any latency or jitters. However, the connecting boxes are quite large and hefty, making it a case against them. The kit will come at a price of $199 and the pc part of it comes with a clip to attach it to the back of the laptop.
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Date: September 8, 2010
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