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Intel Launches Wi-Di

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the clear-streams dept.

Barence writes "Intel has launched a new display technology called Wi-Di at CES. Intel Wireless Display uses Wi-Fi to wirelessly transmit video from PCs running Intel's latest generation of Core processors to HD television sets. Televisions will require a special adapter made by companies such as Netgear — which will cost around $100 — to receive the wireless video signals. Intel also revealed its optical interconnect technology, Light Peak, will be in PCs 'in about a year.'"

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  1. Buy a specialised chip for God's sake by Ilgaz · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Intel pulls the usual trick since people figured their $30 GPU can indeed decode h264 on itself even with Adobe's Flash. There is another chip (Broadcom Crystal HD) which even media player developers started blogging about in amazement.

    So, how to make people upgrade their CPU to do something it was never designed for? Come up with crap like this.

    They should spend way more money to make use of multiple cores, easy conversion tools for older code, better GNU compiler collection support etc. That kind of "wireless HD" job is done way better with a $10 specialized chip with 1% of power/heat.