Digital Home Thoughts: Veebeams Affordable Way To Stream HD To Your TV

"Veebeam, a consumer electronics company dedicated to delivering digital content within the home will be showcasing their new Veebeam product today, just before CES officially opens tomorrow. The Veebeam team will be demonstrating Veebeam's easy and affordable way to stream nearly anything from laptops to TVs. This includes HD movies, internet videos, photos, and even games."

This isn't another wireless HDMI solution, yet it could easily be classed as that. It works by having a box under the TV that connects to your TV via HDMI or Composite A/V, it also has an optical out allowing you to hook it up to your surround sound system. There are a couple of USB ports too which aren't used at the moment but Veebeam say this is for the future to all allow webcams or disk drives to be connected. You then plug the wireless usb stick in your laptop or PC, install the software and the screen is then streamed to the TV. Overall this setup seems to have more benefits than just a pure wireless HDMI solution and one that I can see potential for once they enable the use of the USB ports. Pricing is very good as well with the HD version costing a reasonable £139.