NETGEAR Push2TV TV Adapter for Intel Wireless Display PTV1000 (Black)

by Netgear

• Experience your videos and pictures in HD on your big screen TV ? No more crowding around a small laptop screen.
• Sit back, relax, and experience music, pictures, or videos from your computer, home network, or online.
• Surf the web from your couch - Access TV shows and movies online, or go anywhere a browser will take you.
• Quickly and securely connect a laptop PC to a TV without cables.
• Small and lightweight makes it easy to switch between TVs, or take with you when you travel.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.6 x 2.5 inches ; 12.8 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0033WWAF0
• Item model number: PTV1000-100NAS
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (152 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,981 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
  • #68 in Electronics > Computers & Add-Ons > Networking Products > Digital Media Devices
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 20, 2010

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

With the NETGEAR Push2TV (PTV1000) TV Adapter for Intel Wireless Display, you'll be able to project the entire screen and audio of your Intel Wireless Display-enabled laptop in HD on your big screen HDTV, wirelessly. Instead of crowding around a small laptop screen and squinting, you and guests will now be able to sit back and relax on the couch while enjoying videos, music, pictures, and more from the Web, your computer, or home network.

LAPTOPS Compatible with Push2TV: Laptops with Intel Wireless Display Brand Model Brand Model HP DV5-2070US Samsung R540-Int ASUS U43JC U52F Sony VAIO VPCEA21FX VPCEA22FX VPCEA23FX VPCEA24FX VPCEA24FM VPCEB25FX VPCEB26FX VPCEB26GM VPCS121FM/S VPCS111FM/S Dell Studio 15z Inspiron 15R* Studio 14* Inspiron 17R* *w/ Intel WiFi only Toshiba Satellite A660-15E Satellite A665-S6050 Portege R705-P25 Satellite M645-S4047 Satellite A660-17T Please click here to learn more about specifications of laptops with Intel Wireless Display.

Share anything on your laptop with the rest of your family on the big screen. View larger.

Connect using Intel Wireless Display and the included HDMI cable. View larger.

Easily Connect Your Laptop to Your TV Wirelessly
The Push2TV adapter works with Intel Wireless Display technology enabled laptops to let you easily view whatever is displayed on your laptop screen on your HDTV via a wireless connection. Getting started is as simple as connecting the Push2TV adapter to your HDTV with an HDMI or AV composite connector and following the intuitive setup that takes only a few mouse clicks.

Once connected, your laptop screen and audio is "pushed" to your big screen TV, and your TV basically functions like a second monitor. You can do just about anything you would otherwise do on your laptop screen. You can run any application on your laptop and play just about any media you can play on your laptop, all on your big screen TV and from the comfort of your couch. Surf the Web, access TV shows and movies online, and go anywhere your Web browser takes you. Content requiring output protection such as Blu-ray and DVD movie playback is not supported due to copyright issues.

Compact, Portable Design
The Push2TV adapter is a slickly designed, compact box measuring just 4.17 x 5.43 x 1.25 inches and weighing just 5.56 pounds, so you can easily move it and switch between TVs, or even take with you when you travel.

The NETGEAR PTV1000 Push2TV TV Adapter for Intel Wireless Display is backed by a one-year warranty.

What's in the Box
Push2TV (PTV1000), HDMI cable, installation guide, power adapter.

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Product Description

Experience your videos and pictures in HD on your big screen TV - No more crowding around a small laptop screen. Sit back, relax, and experience music, pictures, or videos from your computer, home network, or online. Surf the web from your couch - Access TV shows and movies online, or go anywhere a browser will take you. Quickly and securely connect a laptop PC to a TV without cables. Small and lightweight makes it easy to switch between TVs, or take with you when you travel.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

59 of 60 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good product, though not perfect.... September 17, 2010

By MW

This basically worked as advertised for me right out of the box. I have a Toshiba R705 laptop that has the Intel Wireless Display capability built in.

I connected the adapter to TV and power using provided connectors. Then I fired up the Intel Wireless Display software, typed in the 4 digit code displayed on the TV and then the connection was rock solid.

Pros -

Connection never failed
Audio and Video were extremely good.
Streaming movies from netflix was excellent, no different than streaming from my LG blu-ray player
Youtube etc etc etc, everything was excellent.
Google Web albums looks great

Cons

If you fail to break the wireless connection between the adapter and laptop before closing the laptop, the laptop basically has to be "hard" rebooted. (i.e.disconnect from power and remove battery) since the LCD screen refuses to function after waking up.

The screen has a little bit of space (half an inch all around) around the edges where the wireless display doesn't put anything (even when you set the laptop resolution to match the TV resolution). My TV has a adjustment using which I can fill it up, but other TV's may not have such adjustments and it is a little bit of a pain.

UPDATE: Found a adjustment in the Intel software that lets me increase the size to fill the screen. Extremely happy with the product now!

Overall, I am happy I bought this product. I'm able to do a lot of stuff like stream foriegn TV channels etc etc that I could not do before. It's a bit pricey for 99 bucks, but doubtless there will be price drops.

119 of 131 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Useless...so far August 31, 2010

By Jared

Amazon Verified Purchase

I bought this item as part of the bundle Amazon offered on the Asus Bamboo laptop. It was relatively easy to setup, but I have encountered nothing but problems since attempting to actually make it work.

I have updated the firmware and the drivers as specified by Netgear. However, everytime I connect the laptop to my television the WiDi application automatically resizes the display on my laptop. Annoying, but whatever. After that, the application goes on to lockup my laptop to the point of requiring a hard boot.

Netgear support has succeeded in repeating everything I say to them back twice to me, but that is it so far.

Conclusion: Product does not do what it is supposed to. From the looks of it (what with a firmware upgrade and "critical" driver updates right out of the box) this appears to be a half-baked, buggy offering. Wish I would have known before hand.

Update 7-23-12:

I gave this away a year ago to a friend who had no issues setting it up. However, he experienced the same random video pixellation, lag and infuriating laptop lockups. We trashed talked it over a few beers and both agreed an old desktop computer with an HDMI cable, being used as a media machine is a much better solution. He didn't think it was garage sale material so we played roller hockey with it. The surface on both sides slides very well and the weight is well balanced for wrist shots. I still have to keep my review at 2 stars however, because when we started with the slapshots the durability just wasn't up to snuff.

111 of 122 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Choppy August 27, 2010

By Christopher

Amazon Verified Purchase

I know technology and I know if this product was released in 2003 it would have been huge, however in 2010 I ask myself, why would anyone sell this?

Basically this is nothing more than Intel sharing your computers wifi connection and using it to send a display signal to a set top box (this unit).

First -- Yes it works..
Second -- Yes it's laggy to the point of making it unasable for anything related to video
Third -- it's target audience should be businesses, not home consumers who might want to use it for more than a power point presentation.

This product is simpily a huge disappointment. You get the performance as if you were doing a remote PC session into someone elses machine -- meaning the same type of lap and copyiness.

Overall 2 stars because it does work.