Pretty sweet wireless HDMI transmitter at CES
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Wed, 01/08/2014 - 22:28
Pretty sweet wireless HDMI transmitter at CES
Been looking into this Airtame thing and actually think I'll back it, it sounds pretty awesome and works for gaming. Since I have my laptop connected to the TV all the time I'm home, I have to have a 15 foot HDMI cable running along the floor to the couch. The Airtame can do low latency video/sound transmission for gaming.
Iit's a pretty sick little device, probably the thing I'm most excited about out of CES this year.
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/airtame-wireless-hdmi-for-everyone--2
Looks similar to Googles Chromecast.
Cosmetics are pretty much where the similarities end. Chromecast is a video player device that's really small and plugs into your HDMI port and lets you use a limited selection of apps to display IPTV sources on your TV. I look at Chromecast as a device that turns your 'dumb' TV into a 'smart' TV, essentially that's all it does. If you have a smart TV already, you have no use for a Chromecast.
Airtame is a wireless receiver allowing you to throw your PC up on the TV wirelessly using your wifi transmitter. SO yes like Chromecast, you can connect to those same IPTV sources with your comptuer and toss those up on the TV. Unlike Chromecast, you can access other video sources local on your hard drive, you can play a DVD/BluRay and throw those up on the TV, you can play a game and send that up to the big screen. YOu can even use it as a 2nd screen to extend your desktop so you can watch a video up on the big screen and still use a web browser on the computer's screen.
Awesome.
Switching to home theater projector this year if this puppy does its job well.
Did not know what. I haven't looked to much into either one. I wonder if it would work for game consoles.
It wouldn't work with a Playstation or Xbox because they wouldn't be able to load the required software to make it work unless Airtame worked with them to produce a console driver. Likewise, it wouldn't work with a projector either because most projectors don't have a wifi antenna, or the capability of loading software onto them.
So it's usefulness is just for PC, Mac and Linux machines at the moment.
I saw the funding reached high enough for them to make it dual core, hoping they hit 750k to add dual band support.
Uhh...didn't the video show an example of how you could connect a projector using the AirTame? Maybe I misunderstood that.
Looks cool and the price is reasonable. I just can't think of any use I would have for one of these.
good if you have your boxes in a closet and your TV mounted.
Ok ya, I was thinking the of the projector as a video source, not a destination like a TV> So YES a projector would work, you would plug Airtame into the HDMI in of your projector, then you could send your PC screen to the projector with Airtame. So yes, projectors would work.