Thursday, September 30th 2010
Galaxy Selects AMIMON for First Wireless Graphics Card Enabling PC-to-TV Connectivity
Galaxy Microsystems, a leading manufacturer and worldwide supplier of NVIDIA based graphics solutions, announced today that it has selected WHDI technology from AMIMON as the platform for it's new Galaxy GTX 460 WHDI Edition shipping in October. "Teaming with Galaxy introduces AMIMON's WHDI technology to the gaming community; with Galaxy and the WHDI technology gamers will be able to maximize high-quality HD graphics of HDTVs utilizing an uncompressed HD wireless link," said Shimon Greenberg, vice president of sales for AMIMON. "AMIMON's WHDI technology is gathering tremendous momentum across the consumer electronics ecosystem: gaming, PC-to-TV, wireless HDTV, etc."
"Gamers and PC users alike want to take the PC games and content from a small monitor to the superior image of an HDTV," said Alex Lam, CEO of Galaxy Microsystems Ltd. "Fusing Galaxy's high-performance graphics cards with AMIMON's WHDI technology provides gamers and consumers with the highest quality wireless HD video connection."
The Galaxy GeForce GTX 460 WHDI Edition provides an uncompressed wireless PC-to-TV connection enabling consumers to view the entire content of their PC screen on their big screen TV. AMIMON's WHDI technology has no noticeable latency (less than one millisecond) making it an ideal solution for gaming. The no-latency link enables consumers to enjoy full interactive PC applications on their TV. Content such as Internet video, flash media, digital photos and PC games can all be viewed and experienced on the TV with a convenient wireless connection.
"Gamers and PC users alike want to take the PC games and content from a small monitor to the superior image of an HDTV," said Alex Lam, CEO of Galaxy Microsystems Ltd. "Fusing Galaxy's high-performance graphics cards with AMIMON's WHDI technology provides gamers and consumers with the highest quality wireless HD video connection."
30 Comments on Galaxy Selects AMIMON for First Wireless Graphics Card Enabling PC-to-TV Connectivity
not to mention you then become limited to this gfx card, whereas with a HDMI cable you can connect it to any really with an adapter at most, AND no extra power used for the end device that connects to the telly.
I find myself asking Galaxy... Why? :confused:
for a HTPC frontend though, it seems quite interesting, but it should have some kind of wireless usb too, otherwise, lets say you put the box in your lounge, and have this installed in your back end/high end system, how do you plan to control the interface from another room? a wifi hub in the box so you could plug in a htpc remote or other peripheral would make it a more total solution for an AIO htpc setup.
But well, I've got a SFF PC with a GTX460 hooked up to the big screen TV anyway...a bit too late would have saved some bucks.
If this tech would be a separate and cheap addon card or a dongle on the DVI port for instance and it could be made to work on any existing GPU I'd be all over it
sorry but ill take an htpc or something like this
i cheated and ran a USB cable along with it, so i just move the wireless receiver between rooms as needed (or use a corded one direct to the PC)
(the actual distance i run is closer to 15M than 30, i just have 30M of cabling cause i run two screens - and i want to run them in either room, regardless of PC location)