14 DAY TRIAL // Intel's WiDI 2 Full HD wireless streaming solution is likely to really explode in the next couple of months, as notebooks powered by mobile Sandy Bridge CPUs become more popular, and that's precisely the reason why Buffalo has decided to bring its own WiDI 2 adapter to the Japanese market, namely the PC-TV1/HD. As some of you will certainly remember, we've already talked about a WiDI companion box a littler earlier this week, namely the Netgear Full HD Push2TV adapter (which, by the way, also seems to be officially endorsed by Intel, shipping with the chip manufacturer's official mobile Sandy Bridge testing kits), but it's becoming quite clear that plenty of rival WiDI 2 solutions will make their way onto the market in the near future.
In terms of functionality, we'd dare to say that the PC-TV1/HD is actually not that different from Netgear's offering, since its main feature is, after all, to stream the contents of one's laptop in full HD resolution to a high-definition TV set.
Moreover, multiple streaming modes are available, including cloning the desktop, spanning the desktop across both the notebook's and HDTV's screens and, finally, turning the TV into the main display.
The PC-TV1/HD from Buffalo comes with a few connectivity options for one's HDTV, featuring, beside the mandatory HDMI connector, an RCA connector, as well as both analog (RCA connector) and digital (S / PDIF connector) audio outputs.
The adapter is powered from the mains and shouldn't really take too much space around the house, as it measures 138 x 105 x 35mm and weighs around 215 grams.
Pricing for the PC-TV1/HD WiDI 2 solution from Buffalo has been set at around 12,500 Japanese Yen ($150), the device being slated to officially become available for purchase on the Japanese market at some point in March 2011.