CES 2011: D-Link WiDi: Display Media from A Laptop onto an HDTV Wirelessly

WiDi.  Get familiar with it because you'll be hearing it more often.  D-Link just announced new, 1080p capable wireless display technology to those currently using a WiDi enabled TV or have the MainStage add on.  Pricing hasn't been released yet, but it's said to be available Spring 2011.  

From the press release:

D-Link Integrates Intel® Wireless Display Technology (WiDi) into D-Link MainStage™, Enabling Home Users to Display Any Media from Their Laptop onto an HDTV Wirelessly

D-Link’s whole-home connectivity push at CES 2011 includes a special announcement about Intel’s Second-Generation Wireless Display technology. Intel® WiDi enables consumers to share virtually any content from an Intel® CoreTM processor-based notebook to their big screen TV. If the HDTV doesn’t currently include the Intel WiDi technology (some new HDTVs have the technology built in), D-Link MainStage can be added to the TV for instant wireless connectivity to a WiDi-enabled notebook.

D-Link MainStage is a discreet solution for adding Intel® WiDi to a customer’s HDTV via HDMI or component video connections. D-Link MainStage enables extremely low latency playing of Internet (or locally stored) videos, family pictures and stored music via the big screen without connecting any wires. The laptop wirelessly transmits content to the display adaptor hooked to the TV.

With Intel® WiDi, there’s no need to crowd around the small laptop screen when friends and family want to show off videos. Plus, you can send D-Link home network content from the laptop to the big screen (via NAS storage devices, miiiCasa™ connected content, and desktops throughout the house).

It’s all available via one simple button on the laptop desktop.

Source(s): D-Link

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