What is Wireless Display (WiDi)?

Flinging pictures from your PC to a TV might seem simple, but if you want to move those images from small screen to the big telly in your lounge, you’ve got a battle on your hands. You’ll either need cabling, a speedy network... or Intel’s latest Wireless Display technology to simplify the whole process. Luckily, certain configurations of our Satellite A660 come with Wireless Display included. Read on, and we’ll spell out what Wireless Display is for, and why it’s so wonderful.

What is Wireless Display?
Wireless Display or WiDi does exactly what you’d expect from the name: letting you use your TV as a display for your computer, wirelessly. It’s a neat idea, and opens up tons of new uses for your computer and TV.

For a start, Wireless Display lets you share what’s on your laptop screen with your television, simply by using your existing home network and an adapter for the TV. That could mean you enjoy holiday photos on the sofa, instead of hunched around a computer in the study.

What can I use it for?
Wireless Display lets you sling pictures from any PC in the house to a TV. That could mean you’re watching catch up TV on the big screen, screening a downloaded movie for the family, gawping at photos or showing off a presentation at work without using your laptop’s small screen.

The possibilities for this technology are endless. You could use it to show online TV shows on the big screen, bringing live coverage of events all around the world to your living room, or you could perch your laptop nearby and use Skype to host a video conference with your entire family.

What do I need?
All you need is a PC packing Wireless Display technology, such as the Toshiba Satellite A660 (certain models), and an adapter to plug into your TV. Plug it in, feed it your home network details and it’ll spring into life. From there you simply need to load the Intel Wireless Display application on the laptop, and see your display leap into life on the big screen.

Other laptops pack Wireless Display technology too, and alongside the necessary hardware you’ll need to make sure you’re running the 64-bit version of Windows 7 and an Intel iCore processor. That’s no problem for the Satellite A660, which comes running Windows 7, and packs a beefy Intel Core i7 processor too.