Intel(R) WiDi runs on the following operating systems: Windows. It was initially added to our database on. The latest version of Intel(R) WiDi is 6.0.62, released on. It was checked for updates 2,922 times by the users of our client application UpdateStar during the last month.
Intel(R) WiDi is a Shareware software in the category Internet developed by Intel Corporation.
Full desktop (including text, presentations, pictures, web content, commercial video discs such as DVD and Blu-ray, and online premium content services like Intel® Insider video) are sent to the TV and audio, up to 6-channel 16-bit/48 kHz LPCM multi-channel audio is rendered in-sync with up to 1080p HD video. The experience is similar to a consumer connecting his or her Notebook PC to a TV via an HDMI cable. A standard called WiDi Display is being developed by the Wi-Fi alliance that will make it interoperable on all Wi-Fi devices.Intel WiDi is a solution that enables a user to wirelessly project his or her PC display to a TV across the living room or a projector conference room. We expect to see some of them in future smart TVs. Intel has shown the WiDi technology running on five different media processors including those from Sigma Design, Realtek, WonderMedia or Intel’s. – OTT services’ software developers do not need to do anything to be streamed by WiDi. There are no limits to what can be streamed. – WiDi streams anything that’s on the PC and in full 1080p. – WiDi has commercial applications such as making corporate presentations.
Consumers are beginning to use tablets in the living room rather than PCs and laptops. &0183 &32 Intel WiDi (3.5+)also works with Miracast so if you have a compatible device for either, you can stream content to it. – AirPlay works from an iPad (or iPhone and iTunes) but WiDi does not. – AirPlay is best for audio and WiDi is for anything that’s on a PC. The biggest differences between WiDi and Apple’s AirPlay seem to be: In many cases, he said, they still want to use a keyboard and mouse. In light of the legal battles Apple is having with Samsung, it may switch from Samsung processors to Intel’s for its future iPads.įorell said consumers have a huge desire to stream what they have on a PC to a TV set such as Google Earth, Skype and homework apps. It’s not too farfetched to see that Apple might add WiDi to its laptops, which already use Intel processors.
WiDi requires that the portable device use an Intel processor. If you already own a notebook with Intel Wireless Display, it’s one of the easiest ways to work and play online from your couch.’
While showing a movie or the Web on a TV set or projector, WiDi users can simultaneously work on the notebook that is projecting to them.ĭaniel Kelley, associate VP of consumer marketing at D-Link North America, said, ‘MainStage lets you wirelessly project movies and TV shows from Netflix and Hulu, or personal home videos and photo slideshows, to the best screen in the home, the HDTV. iTunes comes with AirPlay so any Mac or Windows PC, iPod, iPhone or iPad can stream to an Apple TV connected device or to any device with AirPlay embedded.
Additionally, the OTT service that’s sending the AirPlay video stream must have embedded some AirPlay code into their stream.
Anything! Apple requires that the receiving device have its AirPlay embedded or be connected to an Apple TV. Netgear’s PUSH2TV HD WiDi adapter sells for $99.99.Īnything that’s displayed on the WiDi capable PC can be streamed live to the WiDi-equipped TV set. D-Link’s WiDi receiver for the TV set is called MainStage and sells for $107 at Amazon. Tablets that have Intel’s Medfield processors will also be capable of having WiDi.īecause no TV sets yet have WiDi ‘ although Intel promises some will have it in the future ‘ several companies make an HDMI or A/V connected WiDi TV adapter: D-Link, Belkin, Asus, Buffalo Technologies and Netgear.
Intel says about 15 million PCs with WiDi have already been sold. A relatively unknown company called ExoPC is reportedly making a tablet with Intel’s Atom processor that comes with WiDi. Sony, HP and Toshiba are making expensive laptops with WiDi embedded but prices can be expected to drop as volume and competition increase. Before you get too excited, the iPad does not have WiDi, at least not yet and maybe never. The stream can be up to 1080p and 5.1 surround sound and can come from the PC or its Blu-ray or DVD disc drive. Intel is working to get every portable device from PCs to tablets to embed its WiDi technology. Both the PC and the TV need WiDi technology, of course. WiDi is mirroring technology and streams anything and everything that’s on a WiDi-equipped PC or tablet to a TV set or projector: video, audio, Web pages, pictures, documents and applications. Intel’s Wireless Display (WiDi) technology is very different from what Apple offers with AirPlay, according to Kerry Forell, Intel’s WiDi product manager.