Review Amimon WHDI: Remote HDTV from your PC

Posted by Kathleen Maher on July 28th 2011 | Permalink
Categories: Hardware Review
Tags: graphics gaming review computers

Kathleen Maher

Israeli based Amimon developed WHDI (Wireless High-definition Interface) chipsets. A fabless semiconductor company, Amimom established the WHDI concept for uncompressed wireless HD video for CE video devices. WHDI allows flat-panel televisions and multimedia projectors to wirelessly connect to HDTV video sources and obtain a quality equivalent to that achieved with wired interfaces such as component video, DVI and HDMI, or so says the company. The company’s modules and reference designs are for the 5GHz unlicensed band of uncompressed HD video streams, and offer equivalent video data rates of up to 3 Gbps (including 1080p) using 40 MHz of bandwidth in compliance…

Acer C120 Pico projector

Posted by Jon Peddie on May 2nd 2012 | Discuss (0)
Categories: Hardware Review
Tags: acer computers technology travel projector

Jon Peddie

Projecting power like an aircraft carrier {image_1}We got an Acer C120 Pico projector to play with (and we took it on a road trip to Finland and the UK). The units can display up to 1280 x 800 resolution, has a 1000:1 contrast ratio, and offers 100 Lumens brightness when plugged in. It can be powered by USB 3.0 and there is a battery. The convenient USB 3.0 option allows for faster display of the images at 75 ANSI lumens. Alternatively, when higher brightness matters you can power the projector with the AC adapter and get an even brighter 100 ANSI…