While recently working on setting up a laptop to be connected to a home theater system, I realized I haven’t talked about WiDi. WiDi = Wireless Display, a new technology that allows high definition content to be transmitted wirelessly between a computer (usually a laptop) and a high definition TV.

That means you can use the TV as an external monitor and play movies from the laptop, play music through your home theater system,  show picture galleries, or simply browse the internet in your laptop and display it on your high Definition TV. Of course that also means being able to stream movies from services such as Netflix from your laptop to your high definition TV, wirelessly.

This new technology is available only in the newest generation laptops, with the newest CPUs from Intel (the i3, i5 or i7 family), and Windows 7, 64-bit operating system. It requires a receiver that attaches to the High Definition TV.

Even if you don’t plan to have such setup, at least now you know what WiDi means 🙂