A tantalizing new wireless technology innovation being introduced by Intel that allows you to transfer laptop displays to TV could have fascinating applications for the real estate industry. Just beginning to appear on upscale, heavy-duty laptops offered by Toshiba, Sony and Dell, Intel Wireless Display appears to be another coffin nail presaging the end of television as we know it today. But beyond the ability to revolutionize consumer television viewing habits, Wireless Display offers intriguing marketing opportunities for real estate agents and brokers.
The Intel Wireless Display allows users to transfer to a television screen whatever they display on their laptop. The system comes with a small wireless adapter about the size of a thin paperback. You place the adapter in your entertainment center and connect it directly to your television via a digital HDMI cable or you can connect it to a digital receiver that is already connected to the television. When you activate the Intel software on your PC, it connects to the wireless receiver and your TV will display whatever is on your laptop. You may need to make a minor manual resolution adjustment to your PC signal to produce a clear, crisp image. Intel's wireless signal has ample range to carry between rooms without line-of-sight and includes audio transmission so you both see and hear transmitted material.
This revolutionary technology is just out of the box and currently only runs on fairly powerful laptop. However, expect Intel Wireless Display to become standard fare on at least the highest end laptops within a few tech generations. The current incarnation exhibits a slight delay between typing something on your laptop and seeing the display on your television, but it shouldn't take Intel long to perfect that minor glitch.
The ease of including this PC-to-TV feature in wireless, take-anywhere technology offers exciting marketing opportunities for real estate professionals. Intel Wireless Display makes it a snap to create seminars, video how-to demonstrations, produce virtual home tours and a host of other possible marketing applications and give them big screen display at your office, open houses, meetings and seminars or community events.
Jon, this sounds like it will be an awesome piece of equipment to get. I thinking the HDMI box (book) will come with the program? Is this product to hi tech to add to currently owned laptops?
Jon,
Great article! Intel designed and tested Intel(R) Wireless Display for home user in the same room as their TV. But we figured consumers would find other usages than we intended.
I would like to make a clarification about your article. A couple of times you refer to 'high end" laptops. I don't think this is accurate. Today all of the shipping laptops are Intel(R) Core i5 based PCs. These are dual core and are mainstream with Intel Core i7 Quad core laptops available at the high end. Starting later this month there will be many more laptop models which are Intel Wireless Display capable including Intel Core i3 based models. Furthermore you will soon be able to buy these laptops from retailers besides Best Buy.
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I'm sorry Garry but I will stick with my "High End" version. even in your comment you say "soon be able to buy". I am blogging in the here and now, not the future. I will re visit this when it becomes "main stream"... Stores are still mainly filled with Celeron, Centrino and AMD processor laptops, there are just not enough stores or people using/selling i5, i7's let-alone i3 processors for me to say they are main stream.