Gigabyte SkyVision WS100

If you wish to rapidly sync a laptop's shade or link up your diversion console to an HDTV from a couple of feet away, normally you need an extra-long HDMI cable. There's a sufficient improved way, however, and that's the Gigabyte SkyVision WS100.

This is a pack of two adapters that can link up to any other using WHDI wireless technology , permitting you to abandon the long earthy HDMI line that normally connects a playback device and an HDTV. And in my testing, the high quality of both video and audio of the wireless connection was probably the same as when you use a line is to connection, creation it a great additon for those who wish to cut down on cables and have more adaptableness in conditions of apparatus chain for their home entertainment systems. The pack moreover comes in useful for offices, in box you wish to rapidly link up a laptop to a large shade for presentations, gaming, or what have you.

The pack is not perfect; it functions usually with HDMI-ready devices, so you can't use it to link up a P.C. without an HDMI dock to a TV. Also, both of the adapters need outmost power, and, finally, at $150, it's rsther than expensive.

That said, the Gigabyte SkyVision WS100 is still a of the most appropriate amid its peers and is unquestionably value the investment.

Design and ease of use
WHDI is a of a couple of existing mainstream wireless manifestation technologies, and is the send contestant to Intel's WiDi . Both technologies enable users to wirelessly link up a upheld device to a big-screen TV and broach audio and video signals, just similar to when the device is related to the TV using an HDMI cable, with the same vigilance quality.

WiDi has the advantage over WHDI given it's right away a built-in underline on many laptop computers. WHDI, that is created primarily by Amimon , however, normally offers improved vigilance high quality with probably no loiter detectable by human eyes.

Like with all wireless technologies, unless your gadgets have built-in encouragement for it, you'll need adapters. The Gigabyte SkyVision WS100 is done for those situations in that both the HDTV and the playback device, be it a laptop, a diversion console, or a Blu-ray player, do not encouragement WHDI. As long as both gadgets have an HDMI port, you can use the Gigabyte SkyVision WS100 with them.

As we referred to earlier, the Gigabyte SkyVision WS100 comes with two adapters: a is the receiver that connects to an HDTV; the other is the receiver that connects to the playback device.

The receiver is a small, squarish section that measures 3.7 inches by 3.2 inches by 1.3 inches. It has a HDMI dock and a Micro-USB port. You do need a partial HDMI line (included in the package) to link up the receiver to an HDMI dock on the TV. After that, link up the receiver to the power using a typical USB power adapter (also included), and a finish of the connection is ready.