14 DAY TRIAL // Back in the first half of January, at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show, Intel demonstrated an electronic that allowed a laptop to easily playback stored media directly on a TV. Said product, known as the WiDi (Wireless Display) plugs into a video output device and wirelessly receives video and audio streams over WiFi. Now, it appears that the Santa Clara, California-based giant intends to expand the uses of this technology to a broader range of electronics.
According to a report published by PC World, the WiDi should make its way to netbooks, tablets and mostly any other type of mobile device out there. This plan was revealed by Kerry Forrell, the Intel wireless display product manager, and was confirmed by Paul Otellini himself, Intel Corp. chief executive officer (CEO). Basically, WiDi should reach all Intel platforms and even TVs over time. Unfortunately, no details are available, nor was there a time frame given.
"What we want to do is have better out-of-box usage experience. What we'll be doing over the next few years is take the Wi-Di capability that's in the laptop today and extend that into all the Intel platforms," said Otellini at an investor conference earlier this week. "Any of the Intel-based devices you have will be able to handle that seamless wireless communication of HD video between that device and the big screen."
"We fully expect to take the technology there," Forrell said. "We will over time add this as a function to multifunction devices including TVs."
Basically, such a development would allow end-users to easily stream whatever HD media files they have stored on their mobiles. The immediate focus will bring the technology to more PCs, especially those based on Core i5 and Core i7 processors, and even Core i3 machines. After that, efforts will be made to eliminate the half-second delay in displaying content when streaming from a laptop to a TV.