HP has announced the HP Wireless TV Connect product which allows customers to wirelessly experience 1080p high-definition (HD) Blu-ray multimedia content such as Blu- ray movies, videos and photos, from a notebook Mac or PC to a TV or home entertainment center without the clutter of audio or video cables.
Users have the freedom to experience 1080p HD content without a timelag between the Mac or PC and the display and without installing software. The US$199 HP Wireless TV Connect fully supports protected content such as Blu-ray and DVD movies.
Additionally, the notebook adapter is powered off the USB port, freeing up the user to sit anywhere in the room. The Wireless TV Connect functions with almost any Mac or PC with an HDMI port.
The HP Wireless TV Connect accessory is expected to be available in the United States next month with a starting price of $199.
Starting today, customers can reserve an HP Wireless TV Connect by calling 1-800-230-5752. More info here.
MacDailyNews Take: Clunky bricks.
Reserve second place at best.
They picked a bad day to announce a new product. Don’t they know this is going to be forgotten about with all the conversation on whatever Apple releases today?
MM
Ahhh $200 for a wireless receiver…and they claim Apple overcharges
I hate overuse of the word “experience” where it really doesn’t apply. Oh, by the way, that design is something I’d be trying very hard to hide, not show off.
I have an old desktop fan that looks better than this pig.
Seems overpriced and the design is hideous. Now, if they did something in reverse – stream video playing on your TV to your Mac or PC, then we’d be in business.
lol Ron
Cool – now I can send Blu-Ray movies from my MacBook Pro or from my brand new Mac Pro to my TV… Oops.
not even sure what that even means
sales success chances: not good
Cool. Now I can sit on the couch with my wife’s giant shitty heavy plastic HP “multimedia” laptop, and watch movies… once it finishes booting up and loading the latest anti-virus updates.
…as long as I keep it plugged in. We only get 15 minutes out of our two year old HP “multimedia” laptop between charges.
The timing of the announcement of this product which is not ready to ship yet, is oh so obvious.
“Now I can sit on the couch with my wife’s giant shitty heavy plastic HP “multimedia” laptop”
Well, at least you won’t need a blanket…or that camouflage Snuggie.
http://www.mysnuggiestore.com/p-2002-snuggie-designer-camouflage.aspx
This reminds me of when HP announced their “Slate” computer right before the iPad came out…. We see how that worked out for them.
They should put a few more HP logos on there.
Grrrilla has a point. HP is offering solutions for Blu-ray devices — something that Apple doesn’t have. Apple is missing the boat on true high definition. I like the idea of Apple’s $billion server farm but not if the best it streams is low quality “high definition” that is barely better than good standard definition. I want Blu-ray-quality high definition.
@George,
Why pay for Blu-Ray on your Mac when you can buy a Blu-ray player outright and plug that in instead?
I have Cox Communication cable broadband service. An HD movie takes forever to download… and that is with heavily compressed versions of so-called HD. A full Blu-Ray 1080p movie streaming cleanly over wireless would be pretty impressive. I haven’t tried it, but I am not sure that I would get good streaming results with my Airport and TV (ignoring the resolution issue for a moment).
HP…you are no Jonathan Ives
If I have to have an HDMI port on my laptop to use this thing then it’s not wireless.
The medical industry has had this technology for years, and granted it is not cheap either. It is used in laparoscopic procedures where a HD camera connected to a console takes the images and then transmits uncompressed 1080p video to an external monitor (within 15 feet of the transmitter). The systems available transmit to up to 3 monitors, with the WHDI standard on one of 24 channels. I suspect that this will eventually make it to the home, but right now its just a little too pricey.