ASUS uses AMIMON's WHDI technology for
its WiCast PC to TV connectivity kit
Provider of wireless HDTV semiconductor solutions, AMIMON
has been selected by ASUS for its upcoming WiCast EW2000
PC to TV connectivity kit. The WiCast is based on AMIMON's
WHDI (Wireless Home Digital Interface) technology. The AMIMON
based wireless PC to TV connectivity products from ASUS
will be available in September this year. Additionally,
ASUS has also announced that it will join the WHDI consortium
as an adopter.
The AMIMON based ASUS WiCast adapters comes as a set (HD
video transmitter and receiver) in a compact consumer friendly
design, and will interface to the PC and TV via HDMI. The
adapters are powered by the PC's USB port making them highly
portable for use with notebooks and netbooks.
AMIMON based ASUS wireless PC to TV products enables consumers
to view content such as Internet video, flash media, digital
photos and PC games. AMIMON's technology has no noticeable
latency thus enabling consumers to enjoy full interactive
PC applications on their TV, including gaming. In addition
to PCs, the WiCast can connect to any source device with
an HDMI port such as set-top-boxes (STBs) and gaming consoles
to enable a wireless connection from devices with HDMI ports.
"ASUS is the first to offer consumers wireless PC
to TV products based on AMIMON's WHDI technology. Several
other PC to TV connectivity products will be launched later
this year, including notebooks and tablet PCs with embedded
WHDI modules," said David Shefler, vice president of
sales and business development for AMIMON. "WHDI, with
its high quality, low latency and low power consumption,
is the only solution that will enable all portable computing,
gaming and HD source devices to wirelessly connect to TVs."
"AMIMON's WHDI is an ideal technology for wireless
PC to TV connectivity; it offers a high-quality, robust
link enabling wireless HD video and graphics with practically
zero latency giving PC users seamless interaction,"
said James Lai, director of product marketing at ASUS. "Joining
the WHDI consortium will enable us to develop WHDI standard
based products like PCs embedded with WHDI that interface
directly to WHDI TVs."
The ASUS WiCast products feature AMIMON's chipset, AMN2120/2220
for robust, wireless 1080p 60Hz in the 5GHz unlicensed band.
The AMIMON based modules inside the ASUS wireless PC to
TV products are developed by Quanta. The AMIMON technology
implements HDCP revision 2.0 enabling wireless viewing on
the TV of all PC content including Blu-Ray movies and DRM
protected content.
ASUS is the latest major CE manufacturer to join the WHDI
consortium. They add to the growing membership of the WHDI
organization, its membership consists of the top CE companies
from around the world, including companies such as: AMIMON,
Haier, Hitachi, LG Electronics, Maxim, Mitsubishi, Motorola,
Samsung, Sharp, Sony and Toshiba.
