Netgear introduces new Push 2TV wireless media player

Netgear has introduced new Push 2TV wireless media player and it is based on Intel’s Wireless Display Technology. This device is very much useful to wirelessly transmit HD videos from laptop and then to play on TV screens. You can watch a movie with your family in the living room over HD television through your laptop,. Netgear has not announced prices of the device so far.

A portable device, the Push2TV PVT-1000 is to be hooked to your HD TV via HDMI cable or Composite. This device will let you stream photos and videos with HD quality to the larger screen installing it on your compatible laptop. The only restriction is that it functions on Intel based laptop only. This means you can not use it on older laptops.

Intel showed its new Wireless Display technology at the Consumer Electronics Show 2010. This technology uses an adapter to bring content from laptop to TV. Intel WiDi technology needs Intel Core i7-620M, Core i3 or Core i5 based laptop with 64-bit Windows 7 OS. Certain specific modules are also needed on the laptop to get the Intel WiDi thing functioning.