Wireless USB Solution of Atlona's AT-HDAIR Misses the Mark
Although HDMI is more common than ever on laptops, if you are working on a base model more than a year or so old you may very likely be SOL when it comes to options for exporting video content to your HDTV (DVI excluded). Sure, there is almost always the VGA port option, if you can rig an audio workaround, but as anyone who has tried to stream video to their TV in this way, say through Hulu or Netflix knows, VGA cables also have resolution limitations that will keep you from getting wide-screen image quality. With this in mind things seemed to be looking up with the announcement a while a go of Atlona's AT-ADAIR.
A wireless USB device that hooks into your laptop via USB and transmits a signal to a base that then can input into your TV via HDMI (or VGA), for $200 it sounds like a fair solution, but then came the Engadget hands-on review. Sad to say, it looks like there are some deal-breaking flaws here. According to the review, which is borne out in the video below, the wireless video transmitted is pretty choppy and much more importantly, the connection does NOT support audio. (this last point is called out of the Atlona site) That's right, no audio. Apparently Atlona is working on a solution to this, but you would think with the world crazy for streaming video that they would have made this a priority in this product. Unfortunately that was not the case, and so unless you were looking to use the AT-HDAIR for something like PowerPoint displaying or silent movies, you might want to hold off on laying down any cash.
For more details, click on the image below and scroll to the bottom of the page. There you can see the Engadget video review.
--Tom Milnes
Marco Equandolas on March 25, 2010 at 04:06 PM
I got the updated version of this with audio. It works beautifuly! I think that old Nilay from engadget wanted to review a different product, so was upset when he reviewed the actual HDAiR. I can dig it though, I probably would not have liked mine so much if it did not have sound too!
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