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Wireless HDMI for Everyone

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Re: Wireless HDMI for Everyone

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Post by jebus989 »

Firstly the public use cases are cool and could be really useful; my criticisms are with home use. My TV doesn't have USB ports for a start and the current setup I have is a 10m HDMI cable that is long enough to connect to my laptop on the sofa, it cost about $15 and is hassle-free.

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Post by binarymax »

jebus989 wrote: post #2

Firstly the public use cases are cool and could be really useful; my criticisms are with home use. My TV doesn't have USB ports for a start and the current setup I have is a 10m HDMI cable that is long enough to connect to my laptop on the sofa, it cost about $15 and is hassle-free.

This is just a first step, and I applaud the effort. Death to cables!

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Post by SiVal »

jebus989 wrote: post #2

Firstly the public use cases are cool and could be really useful; my criticisms are with home use. My TV doesn't have USB ports for a start and the current setup I have is a 10m HDMI cable that is long enough to connect to my laptop on the sofa, it cost about $15 and is hassle-free.

A 10m HDMI cable connecting your TV to your laptop on the sofa is not hassle-free---that cable is the hassle. I'm doing the same things, and I find it a hassle but haven't yet been willing to cough up the $100 for an Apple TV + AirPlay wireless solution. Unfortunately, their dongle costs nearly as much.

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Post by sandwell »

jebus989 wrote: post #2

Firstly the public use cases are cool and could be really useful; my criticisms are with home use. My TV doesn't have USB ports for a start and the current setup I have is a 10m HDMI cable that is long enough to connect to my laptop on the sofa, it cost about $15 and is hassle-free.

Yea, I was excited about this until I saw that the source has to be a machine that can run their software.

My dream atm is for a low-cost wireless HDMI sender for projecting stuff like xbox to my office (would be nice to play a bit of GTA while I wait for files to copy ;), that work in a similar way to the RF SCART senders you can pick up from most electronics stores.

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Post by hrktb »

What strikes me is how the Apple TV is really in the "good enough" zone for iOS and recent Macbook users. After so many years there's no clearly better solutions to show some random content on the TV.

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Post by Xylakant »

Does it support HDCP? I don't see any mention of it, but not supporting it would imply that you can't play your DRM-protected iTunes streams via an Airtame adapter. (I totally agree that DRM is fundamentally a broken idea, but alas, that's the current state of affairs).

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Post by atiti »

sandwell wrote: post #6
jebus989 wrote: post #2

Firstly the public use cases are cool and could be really useful; my criticisms are with home use. My TV doesn't have USB ports for a start and the current setup I have is a 10m HDMI cable that is long enough to connect to my laptop on the sofa, it cost about $15 and is hassle-free.

Yea, I was excited about this until I saw that the source has to be a machine that can run their software. My dream atm is for a low-cost wireless HDMI sender for projecting stuff like xbox to my office (would be nice to play a bit of GTA while I wait for files to copy ;), that work in a similar way to the RF SCART senders you can pick up from most electronics stores.

That will be the next step, but it all has to start somewhere :-)
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