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- Date:
- Tuesday , June 01, 2010
- Author:
- Kyle Bennett
- Editor:
- Kyle Bennett
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Galaxy Streams Desktop to Your TV
We have a look at some of Galaxy's new products that it is showing off at Computex. Most notably Galaxy will have product that will allow you to wirelessly stream your high resolution desktop to your TV. New GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470 cards as well.
Introduction
We have a the entire slide deck from what Galaxy is showing off at Computex today in Taipei.
World's First WHDI Graphics Card
If you are not up to speed with WHDI, you can check its home page and see that a consortium consisting of names like Hitachi, Motorola, Samsung, Shard, Sony, and LG Electronics makes up its contributing developers. A FAQ is located here, but let me give you a quick break down as to what WHDI actually is.
What is WHDI? - WHDI™ (Wireless Home Digital Interface) sets a new standard for wireless high-definition video connectivity. It provides a high-quality, uncompressed wireless link which can support delivery of equivalent video data rates of up to 3Gbps (including uncompressed 1080p) in a 40MHz channel in the 5GHz unlicensed band, conforming to worldwide 5GHz spectrum regulations. Range is beyond 100 feet, through walls, and latency is less than one millisecond.
WHDI enables new opportunities for consumers to connect their A/V devices and to consume content. With a range that spans the whole home, WHDI allows users to connect any source in the home to any display. With WHDI, the TV in the living room can show movies from the Blu-Ray player in the bedroom, the kitchen TV can display the contents of the PC in the home office, and a game can be enjoyed on the basement projector without moving the gaming console from the kids' bedroom. This is the first standard to enable universal, codec-independent, multi-room HD video connectivity through the delivery of uncompressed HD video using a revolutionary video modem approach that supports whole home coverage.
We have recently seen a competing standard from Intel demonstrated, but it simply is not quite as robust.
While we cannot discuss what specific Galaxy card(s) you will find WHDI technology on, Galaxy has really good things to say about its testing experiences with WHDI. It will likely be a few more months before we see this on retail shelves. Transmission power is strong, can go through walls easily, and can run a Blu-ray movie with solid results. This type of product could turn your TV in any room into a Blu-ray player, or mirror your desktop to provide easy viewing to anyone that you wanted to share it with locally.
New Galaxy GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480
The new Galaxy GTX 470 Razor is a single slot version of the standard GTX 470 with stock clocks.
Galaxy's new GTX 480 is a bit more pleasing to the eye and has some visual GPU load queues built into the card. If you are wondering about what a "Vapor Chamber" is, it is a modified version of the standard heatpipe. Galaxy's version uses a flat rectangle form of a heatpipe to maximize the surface area and can fit better into limited spaces. We have seen some of these used in the past on products, but do not have much experience with them first hand.
The new GTX 470 "flip fan" design is now fully detachable. Final voting is going on in the Name that Fan Contest in which we will be giving away a brand new Galaxy GTX 470 GC.
Magic Box - iPhone Apps
I would guess these products are not going to be very exciting for our North American readers. I would rather see better software monitoring applications for the desktop than hardware for bays or apps on the iPhone.
New Galaxy GTX 465
The new GTX 465 is likely to be welcomed to our market with relative silence. The card is set to retail for $279 and have less performance than the Radeon 5850. I just do not see a GTX 465 being an "enthusiast video card." However all is not lost, as we are hearing rumblings of a follow-up GPU to the 465 that will likely interest our NVIDIA fan base of enthusiasts.
In Closing
Thanks to Galaxy for sharing its upcoming products with us, it is much appreciated. I am most interested in it WHDI technology implementation and I am sure many of you are as well. Beyond that I am interested to see what "Vapor Chamber" cooling can do to tame a hot and hungry GTX 480. And from the looks of it in the slide above, Galaxy's new GTX 480 seems to be a much more appealing enthusiast piece of hardware.
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