Hey brite-Viewers,
How is your week going so far?
We are happy to share with you two recent reviews on the brite-View “Air HD” (BV-2500), done by the HT Guys and the Consumer World.
We recently received a lot of attention since we announced the brite-View “HDelight” (BV-1222), a wireless 1080p HD PC-to-TV transmission kit, especially after Engadget saw it in the Netbook Summit. People were wondering if they can connect the HDelight to other things than their PC. For example, their cable box, or PS3. And the answer is “of course, if that ‘thing’ has an HDMI port”. The transmitter and the receiver of the HDelight kit each has one HDMI port.
You might not know, thought, that you don’t have to wait for the HDelight – the “Air HD” is already up for that task, and the connectivity does not limit to HDMI. What is the “Air HD” and how is it different from the “HDelight”?
The HDelight is specifically designed for connecting your PC to the TV, wirelessly, via the WHDI technology. It can transmit any 1080p@60Hz content for at least 20 feet. You can turn any HDMI ready PC into a home theater PC.
The Air HD is designed for clean installation – when you want to hang your TV on the wall with “no strings attached” but still want to enjoy content from your BD player, game console and cable box (may be placed in another room) then the Air HD is what you’re looking for. It can transmit 1080i@60Hz or 1080p@30Hz, for up to 65 feet.
You can see from the picture below what options you have – two HDMI ports, component and composite (on the Air HD receiver there is one HDMI port).
Comparing with other wireless solutions, the WHDI technology has clear advantages, especially in terms of transmission distance (good for multi-room solution), and there is hardly any latency (less than one millisecond).
See the YouTube video of the HDelight in action, and you’ll know what we mean.
So, many thanks to the HT Guys and Consumer World for taking the time to review the Air HD kit.
HT Guys’ conclusion:
“There are so many more uses for the Air HD than just front projectors. It’ll work really well for backyard and outdoor theaters. You could use it to stream TV to a room in the house that doesn’t have Coax, like a bathroom, workshop or garage. If you have a TV that’s constantly moving based on what’s happening at home, you’d only ever need to plug it into the wall to get great quality HDTV on it.
At $279 we’ll leave it up to your imagination to decide the best use for it, but in our tests it worked really well. We didn’t get it to live up exactly to the full advertised specs, but when the signal was solid, the audio and video were solid and it was a cinch to get setup.
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Consumer World’s conclusion:
“If your placement of the TV or second TV is relatively close to your cable box, the Air HD may be the solution you have been hoping for. It is only sold at Amazon or from the company directly for about $279.99.”
Check out the whole review from the HT Guys here, and from the Consumer World here.
Cheers!
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