Hasta La Gadget!

The WiFi Alliance promised us some Miracast products, and Netgear has stepped up to deliver, with its new Push2TV adapter taking on Apple’s AirPlay in a gadget that fits in your palm. The Netgear Push2TV PTV3000 Wireless Display Adapter uses Miracast to stream what’s on your laptop, smartphone, or tablet screen directly to your TV, though there’s also WiDi support for those with older, non-Miracast notebooks.

The box itself is a mere 83mm in length and measures about the same as a small stack of credit cards. Netgear will be supplying it with a microUSB power supply, but the Push2TV sips power in such a sufficiently humble way that it could also be juiced up by a spare USB port on your TV itself, should you have one. That way, you could avoid trailing cables from the STB altogether, relying on both USB and HDMI links with your display.

If hiding it behind a screen isn’t to your taste, Netgear also expects the Push2TV to find favor with mobile workers who might want to repurpose a hotel room TV for their own streaming content, rather than pay for on-demand movies. 1080p Full HD is supported.

Altogether, it’s a whole lot smaller and more flexible than Netgear’s older Push2TV adapters (the PTV1000 and PTV2000), as well as being cheaper too. The Netgear Push2TV will go on sale this month, priced at $59.99.

Netgear Push2TV PTV3000 slims Miracast and WiDi for your pocket is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Everyone really likes AirPlay, Apple’s Wi-Fi streaming standard that lets you send movies and music from, say, your iPhone to your speakers or Apple TV. Now there’s a new standard out to do pretty much the same thing for everyone else. But how is it different from previous attempts? More »

AirPlay may be Apple’s solution to wireless streaming, but other heavyweights of the tech industry are getting behind the WiFi Alliance’s Miracast, which today announced the first compatible products. Unlike AirPlay video streaming, which is limited to Apple hardware, Miracast relies on WiFi Direct to squirt content between smartphones, tablets, laptops, PCs, TVs, and set-top boxes. Smartphone manufacturers haven’t been slow to get involved either: both the Samsung Galaxy S III and the LG Optimus G are already Miracast certified.

Of course, it’s no use if only a handful of devices work with Miracast, and so happily there are more than just two phones on offer. Broadcom, Intel, LG, Marvell, MediaTek, NVIDIA, Realtek, Samsung, Sony, and Texas Instruments have all pledged their support, with several of those firms detailing their initial Miracast certified products:

• Samsung Echo-P Series TVs
• Broadcom Dualband 11n WiFi
• Intel WiDi
• Marvell Avastar USB-8782 802.11n 1×1 Dual-band Reference Design
• MediaTek a/b/g/n Dualband Mobile Phone Client, MT662X_v1 and DTV Sink, MV0690
• Ralink 802.11n Wireless Adapter, RT3592
• Realtek Dual-band 2×2 RTL8192DE HM92D01 PCIe Half Mini Card and RTD1185 RealShare Smart Display Adapter

Some of those, like the Samsung TVs and Realtek network cards, will find their way directly into consumers’ homes. Others, like the Marvell and MediaTek chipsets, will show up more discretely, as vendors begin to include Miracast in their phones, tablets, and STBs.

TI Miracast 1080p HD demo:

Intel’s involvement means WiDi will now include Miracast support, instantly broadening the standard’s appeal. More than 1.5 billion Miracast devices are expected to ship in 2016, according to independent predictions, sporting the “WiFi Certified” badge in retail environments.

Miracast certification begins as AirPlay gets some serious competition is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
© 2005 – 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.

NVIDIA has just announced Miracast, a WiFi-Direct based protocol that allows phones, tablets and other computing devices to clone a live mobile device display to a compatible TV. This lets mobile applications being displayed effortlessly onto a big TV. Obviously, this concept has immediate applications for games, video and presentation apps.

Of course, to do this, NVIDIA needs to compress a video stream fast enough and with sufficient quality. Given what the company has done with GeForce grid (which is used by Gaikai), there is no question that it has the know-how. Additionally, the low-latency of a home network should make that a walk in the park, mostly. (more…)

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