Sure, it’s recreation to endeavor games on your notebook’s display, but it ease pales in comparability to the 55-inch telecasting you’ve got mounted to your wall. Yes, you could enter an HDMI cable, but who wants a cloth exercising crossways the room? The HP Wireless TV Connect lets you wirelessly course 1080p content– including games, Blu-rays and online video–from your laptop with no latency. You crapper modify shine 3D noesis to your bounteous screen. Still, $179 is a pretty powerful toll attach for wireless freedom. Is this gadget worth the splurge?

Design

Since the prototypal generation, HP contracted the filler of its Wireless TV Connect. Now, the transmitter, which was a bulky 4.5 x 4.1-inch box, measures a such diminutive 3.5 x 1.3 x 0.6 inches. About the aforementioned filler as the agent for the Philips Wireless HD Net Connect, it has an HDMI block on digit end, and on the lateral is a microUSB port. (The agent requires USB noesis to operate). A diminutive chromatic reddened on crowning indicates the figure is working, and a fix on the oppositeness lateral of the HDMI opening is utilised to ordered the device.

HP also contracted the filler of the receiver, to a smallish 3.2 x 3.1 x 1.1 inches. It’s most a lodge of the filler of Philips’ earpiece (7.7 x 5.75 x 1 inches), making it a meliorate choice for those who strength aforementioned to verify it on the road.

The Wireless TV Connect is prefabricated of a shiny black plastic, which curves around the sides. On the face are digit diminutive LEDs: A albescent reddened for power, and a chromatic diode shows the connectivity status. On the backwards are ports for HDMI and power, and on the correct lateral are buttons utilised to configure the device.

In constituent to a USB-miniUSB telegram for the transmitter, we aforementioned that HP includes an HDMI telegram to enter the earpiece to a TV.

Setup

Like the prototypal generation, the HP Wireless TV Connect uses WHDI (Wireless Home Digital Interface) technology, which lets you shine signals with inferior than a 1 millisecond delay, and has a accumulation evaluate of most 3GBps. Also, aforementioned before, it was evenhandedly cushy to ordered up. We prototypal obstructed the agent into our Sony VAIO F’s HDMI port, then obstructed the USB telegram from the agent into the notebook. Then, we adjoining the earpiece via HDMI to our Samsung TV, and supercharged it on.

While the earpiece didn’t directly discern the transmitter, we pressed the ordered fix on the latter, and the digit then synced up in inferior than a minute, duplicating our notebook’s pass on the Samsung TV.

Performance

Click to EnlargeWith the HP Wireless TV Connect, we could endeavor anything we liked, meet as if there was a adjoining connection. We popped in a Blu-ray of “Iron Man” and enjoyed the flush visuals and frequence finished our TV, with no interval whatsoever. The figure worked substantially in every pass mode: extended, cloned, and on meet the TV. Unlike preceding generations of wireless moving technology, we could check a Blu-ray both on the laptop and the TV at the aforementioned time. The concealment would occasionally go black for an instant, though, when we switched concealment configurations from cloned to extended.

Gaming was meet as satisfying: With an Xbox 360 someone adjoining to our VAIO, we were healthy to endeavor “Batman: Arkham City” at 1080p, and saw no holdup when the Caped Crusader was squaring of against the Joker’s henchmen. Still, we had to selector downbound the personalty somewhat in visit to secure a decorous framerate.

New to the ordinal edition of the HP Wireless TV Connect is the knowledge to course 3D noesis to a 3D-capable TV. While the figure crapper exclusive course 1080p noesis at 24 fps, or 720p recording at 60fps, it worked pretty well. On our notebook, we had to prototypal enable stereoscopic 3D using the Nvidia curb commission on our Sony VAIO–but afterward, we were healthy to course a 3D Blu-ray of “The Green Hornet” from the laptop to the TV with no problems.

In visit to course 3D content, you’ll requirement a separate GPU, and a decorous digit at that. Nvidia says it’s doable with its GeForce G210M GPU, but not recommended.

Range and Heat

Although HP exclusive rates the figure for a arrange of most 16 feet, we were healthy to advise 50 feet away, and didn’t wager some stuttering.

Like Philips’ device, both the agent and earpiece on HP’s Wireless TV Connect intend rattling hot. After having it obstructed in for most half an hour, the agent rhythmic 124 degrees. The lowermost of the earpiece was modify worse: 146 degrees.

Verdict

The ordinal procreation of the HP Wireless TV Connect improves upon the example in individual ways. Not exclusive is it smaller, but it crapper also course 3D content, too, every with no latency. While we don’t aforementioned how blistering it gets, at $179, it’s nearly $100 inferior pricey and a lodge the filler of Philips’ Wireless TV Connect. Still, you requirement a evenhandedly husky notebook to attain the most discover of this kit’s potential. Those hunting to only check videos or PowerPoint presentations would be meliorate soured with Intel’s WiDi technology, which is shapely into every notebooks with second-gen Intel Core processors. All you requirement is a $99 receiver. But for what it does, the HP Wireless TV Connect is the best, small pricey and most takeout option.