Stream From PC to HDTV,Wire-Free

SOME GADGETS LET you view Website content on a TV (see page 60 for a review of one such box). What has been missing is a convenient way to enjoy any media from your PC on your big screen.Intel’s new Wireless Display laptop CPUs can compress the PC display and stream it to a Net gear set-top box, the Push2TV (PVT 1000), that you connect to your TV via HDMI or component cables.If it works as advertised,you should be able to watch on your TV anything that you can view on your monitor or laptop. (IDG News has reported, however, that you’re not really supposed to use the Push2TV to view protected material.) Although the box em ploys802.11n Wi-Fi, its streaming is designed to be less prone to interference than traditional Wi-Fi hookups; it uses new peer-to-peer technology made to simplify direct wireless connections between devices—no router involved. Best Buy should be selling the Push2TV by the time you read this, for $100 by itself or bundled with laptops using the new Intel chips.

By Yardena Arar