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FEATURED Netgear PTV3000-100NAS Push2TV
- Wirelessly display content in up to 1080p HD video resolution.
- Versatile power solution by utilizing the USB port on the Television.
- Little size for effortless placement and portability.
The NETGEAR Push2TV lets you wirelessly display your laptop, tablet or smartphone screen on Tv. It works with Intel WiDi and Miracast wireless display enabled devices.
Take a look what individuals say about vaio s video computer television:
Works but not perfect and not for everyone.,
Background: I purchase this device in early November and have used it almost a month already. Setup is pretty straight forward in that you just plug the hdmi into the TV input and power connector thru an open usb port on the TV or wall plug using supplied adapter. This review is in regards to the WIDI function of the device. I do not have a Miracast smartphone so I can’t test that part of the device’s claim. My laptop is a Lenovo Ideapad Y580 that comes with a 3rd gen i7 intel processor and hd 4000 graphics built in. It also has a mobile Geforce 660m graphics card but WIDI is built to use intel graphics instead. Before using this device, I updated the intel widi software to the 3.5 version on my laptop. There is no firmware update for the netgear ptv3000.
Preformance: I have the PTV3000 plug into a usb port on my tv to power this device. The upside of this is that it powers on and off when the tv is on or off. The downside is that it takes time to boot so you would need to wait about a minute before it is ready. If it is plug in to the wall outlet, than it will always be on so no boot up necessary but it will be wasting electricity when not in use. When the device is ready, you start up intel WIDI software and it will or should detect the PTV3000. I then select the device and it will connect in about 10 to 20 second. The distance between the PTV3000 which is located behind the wall mounted TV is about 7 to 10 ft depending if i have the tv on the coffee table or the sofa arm rest. As far as the performance goes, there is a very short lag between the laptop vs. the tv screen. I would say less than a quarter of a second lag. I have a friend who has WIDI on an older laptop using a 2nd gen i5 with hd 3000 graphic and his lag is very bad. Intel has improved WIDI with version 3.5 down to 60 ms if using a 3rd gen. intel chip with hd 4000. My friends 2nd gen chip lag did improve with the 3.5 update and the lag from his laptop went from 1 sec difference to 3/4 second difference between tv and laptop. Intel have said that lag time is around 260 ms for 2nd gen chips. There are times when my connection for WIDI gets cut off and I would have to reconnect. This happens on average once every session. Once i reconnect again, usually I don’t have any disconnect problems anymore afterwards and this is when I am watching a movie. Occasionally, artifacts will pop up and go just as quick. There are times when the picture freezes but don’t disconnect and then “catches up” and work fine the rest of the time. It does get annoying when this happens and you do get the feeling that this is beta hardware where it doesn’t work perfectly all the time when it should.
The current ideal setup for WIDI now is to use a 3rd Generation intel chip with HD 4000 Graphics. Intel has said that with WIDI 3.5 and intel HD 4000 graphics, you would get 60ms latency vs. 260ms for 2nd Gen intel hd 3000 graphics. It is a big difference. No you won’t be able to enjoy fast games with widi but slow pace games like monopoly, chess, etc would be fine with widi. I watch movies with this setup and it works well most of the time. It seems to run better with windows 7 too. Windows 8 still has some issues for some people.
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|Miracast does not work!!,
DO NOT BUY THIS DEVICE FOR MIRACAST! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
This device says it will work with Miracast, but I have a Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Samsung Galaxy SIII, and an Asus Nexus 7, and none of these devices can connect to the PTV3000 even tho they are running Android 4.2 with Miracast support built-in. It also does not work with AllShare Cast on the Samsung Galaxy SIII. What a joke. If you are buying this device to connect your Miracast tablets and phones to your TV, avoid this!
I emailed Netgear about this issue 2 weeks ago and have not gotten a response..
It does, however, work with WiDi enabled laptops.
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