Look Ma, No Cables! It's the Wireless Home Digital Interface!

Connecting your desktop PC or notebook, PS3 or Xbox, BluRay disk player or other HD multimedia devices to any external display is actually pretty easy. What makes the whole process daunting and downright irritating is having to deal with lots and lots of cables and wirings and needless to say, with all those cables lying around, they don’t look good at all. These coiled nuisances, sad to say, could really test your patience.
To avoid all these, I guess the only answer and the most logical thing to do is to get rid of all these cables… go wireless; and that is what ASUS actually did as they bring to us their “WiCast”
ASUS WiCast boasts of Wireless Home Digital Interface (WHDI) technology that lets you transmit or send off a 1080p video wirelessly from your notebook or PC or Bluray disk player to an HDTV or LCD monitor without delay in transmission. Video playback is seamless; not at all sluggish or delayed. You definitely won’t see Justin Bieber lip sync on his videos.
The WiCast Wireless HDMI Kit comes with 2 small black boxes; one is the receiver and the other one is the transmitter. The receiver is about 4.5 inches in height and the transmitter is a bit smaller at about 4 inches in length. I like the fact that these boxes are black, small and lightweight.
These features kind of make them easier to disappear in sight once you set them up with their respective partners. Furthermore, the only cables you have to deal with are the two short HDMI cables and the AC adapters which are totally manageable.

Setting them up with any of the above-mentioned devices are easy and the procedure are pretty much the same. With the use of the HDMI cable, connect the receiver to your HDTV or LCD projector. For power, connect the AC adapter to the receiver’s DC-In port. Lastly, with the shorter HDMI cable, connect the transmitter to your device, be it your PC or notebook, Ps3 or Xbox or other HD multimedia devices. Surprisingly, it is that simple.
One thing I like about the WiCast is its “Omni-Directional Broadcast”. As explained by ASUS, its “transmission is not limited by directionality or line of sight”. With this in mind I tested this feature by placing my laptop on the adjacent room. With a concrete wall between, the HDTV was totally out of sight from my laptop. The result; transmission was indeed successful! No glitches or delay; video and audio quality was not affected at all. Apparently, WHDI technology allows a range of up to 33 feet and let me just reiterate what ASUS has said about its transmission being “not limited by directionality or line of sight”.
With WiCast, going wireless is now easy, handy and convenient. All you need is that little black box that surely makes simple things a lot simpler.