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Re: Wireless HDMI for Everyone

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Post by mortenjorck »

bowlofpetunias wrote: post #37
hrktb wrote: post #7

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.

I'm an Apple fanboy, but the Apple TV DRM-crippled walled garden isn't anywhere near good enough for me. I simply want any device to send a signal to my TV. It's trivial with cables, modern wireless technology can cheaply carry high quality signals, and the only thing standing in the way is the copyright mafia.

What? Unless the entirety of your information about the AppleTV comes from Cory Doctorow posts, you know that the only places DRM comes into the picture are when streaming pre-existing content from premium sources (iTunes Store, Netflix, Hulu).

There's absolutely nothing stopping you from loading a DRM-free h.264 file on another one of your Apple devices and streaming that over AirPlay. And HTML5 video in Mobile Safari works beautifully.

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Post by ZeroGravitas »

wil421 wrote: post #47

I could buy a Chromecast for half the price and use a free service to mirror my desktop for meetings. Or I could buy another Apple TV for a little more and have a lot more functionality and video outlets (HBO GO, Netflix etc.). Although this option only works if you use Macs. Or as another poster said just use the built in wifi on my TVs in my house.

Chromecast supports Netflix and HBO GO (as of about an hour ago, with the latest app update) so not great examples.

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Post by transfire »

What baffles me is that every TV sold today already has a wireless DTV receiver built into it! You know, that one that you can hook rabbit ears to, and the one so few people actually use.

Can someone please explain to me why no one builds transmitters for these?

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Post by Tehnix »

For all the "use chromecast/Apple TV/Miracast", this might be helpfull as to why it isn't the same http://images.indiegogo.com/file_attachments/213408/files/20...

Also, the guys chanting DLNA, does that work on other things than windows? I've never heard of it, so, have little knowledge of it. Also, I will take a stab in the dark and guess the muliple monitors part and sharing your screen on others computers isn't quite a thing of DLNA...

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Post by warcode »

It is not "Wireless HDMI" until I plug something in the HDMI port of my PC and the HDMI port of my TV and it "just works".

Playing games on the output of a 1080p @ 60fps with 3-5k bitrate encoder causes massive delay.

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Post by neya »

I'm somewhat curious to know if this could possibly be a Raspberry Pi-ish solution?

Because that hardware uses an ARM processor and has 512 MB RAM just like the Raspberry Pi model B. Also, I think the Pi is able to achieve the same thing already - Just connect your Pi to the TV (which can have a HDMI/Video In/DVI) and stream what you want from your PC. It would be interesting to see if the software they provide would run on my Pi out of the box. If it does, then I think I can somehow integrate the Pi into my 3 year old Bravio without any fuss and enjoy wireless streaming with the software these guys provide. All in all, a very good effort guys :)

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Post by bloopletech »

Xylakant wrote: post #54
zanny wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

State of affairs on itunes. How about not using iTunes for video?

Sadly, any compliant player for HD-Content will do the same. I'd be surprised if you're more successful with netflix, but I can't test since I'm not a netflix customer. There's enough people reporting problems with netflix and not HDCP compliant setups though. Open source players are fine, but there's still the problem of finding a streaming service that supports open-source players or even just HD content without DR…

I sympathise, but isn't that really the point: if you can't re-stream it how you want, is the existing streaming service really easy to use?

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Post by amalag »

transfire wrote: post #63

What baffles me is that every TV sold today already has a wireless DTV receiver built into it! You know, that one that you can hook rabbit ears to, and the one so few people actually use. Can someone please explain to me why no one builds transmitters for these?

I don't think it is legal to transmit on those frequencies, thats what the stations pay big bucks for.
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