If you're a traveler who wants to watch movies at your hotel, now you just have to carry around a small adapter and load all of your movies onto your smartphone/tablet. We're thinking that WFD might even have applications as a replacement for portable media players devices like those from Western Digital. This makes it even more attractive than WiDi, because the Netgear PUSH2TV adapter is almost the size of a set top box.
We saw a prototype adapter by Cavium, and it's really small - about the size of 10 credit cards stacked together. It's a far cry from plopping down on the couch and playing Angry Birds or Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II using your smartphone as a controller in combination with your 55" HDTV. Plus, you can only play videos, music, and pictures. If your PC or mobile device has Intel® WiDi, the Toshiba Cloud TVs allow you to display the small screen content on the. Toshiba has also included peer-to-peer wireless technologies to allow direct wireless connection between the TV and Intel® WiDi equipped PC or mobile device. With DLNA, the codecs have to be just right and you need a compatible display. Intel® Wireless Display (Intel® WiDi) is supported on this TV. This means anything you see on the smartphone/tablet gets output. If you’re using Windows 7, open the Intel WiDi utility and scan for wireless displays as shown:If you’re using Windows 8.
In theory, this overcomes many of the limitations with DLNA because you're mirroring the display. After successfully running the WiDi Update Tool, you will be able to detect nearby wireless displays within range. Presumably this is a better suited to smartphones and tablets. According to some vendors at MWC though, WiDi isn't exactly power efficient feature, which is why WiFi Alliance has stepped in with its proposed 802.11-based wireless display standard (WFD).
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