Intel has assimilated the march of companies perplexing to lamp video to your TV. The chipmaker is betting upon “WiDi,” the record for streaming media wirelessly from the PC to a TV.

Intel’s WiDi, that is reduced for “wireless arrangement,” will remove a suffering of stringing HDMI cables in between a TV and a laptop.

“This arrangement record extends a laptop shade to a TV,” says Randy Stude, who handles gaming strategy for Intel. “You don’t need cables or to buy the single-purpose tool to make a connection.”

Intel showed a WiDi record during a company’s developer discussion in San Francisco progressing this week.

The record will come pre-loaded in new laptops. Already 44 models sole during Best Buy have a WiDi technology. But consumers will need to buy an one more $100 adapter from Netgear to finish a connection to a TV. Add the wireless remote such as Loop or Glide TV, as well as consumers can watch web calm upon the large shade 25 feet to 30 feet away.

Intel is only a latest in the prolonged list of companies which have been perplexing to make it easier for consumers to watch web video in their living room. Companies such as Apple, Boxee as well as Roku have offering streaming media players for web video enthusiasts.

In May, Google launched Google TV, the brand-new set-top-box height based on Google’s Android operating complement that will mix wire programming with access to online print sites, gaming as well as song.

Earlier this week, start-up Veebeam introduced the streaming media box which uses wireless USB to bond a laptop to the TV. Veebeam estimates 420 Mbps speeds for wireless USB and offers both 720p as well as 1080p high-definition video options.

Intel has selected Wi-Fi to tide calm wirelessly. Wi-Fi doesn’t need line of steer as well as it can stretch about 9 Mbps speeds, says Stude. It is most slower than wireless HDMI which can offer speeds of upto 500 Mbps.

Intel’s program will work upon all laptops regulating Arrendale based core i3, i5 as well as core i7 technologies.  But they will have to have Intel’s 802.11-n chips.

“It’s some-more stretchable than a Boxee box or Apple TV,” says Stude. “You have been not limited to only the couple of sorts of calm as well as put in a walled garden.”

The wireless streaming is currently to singular to 720p fortitude as well as it can’t handle Blu-ray calm. Stude says Intel plans to support higher fortitude video in a destiny.

But first, Intel will have to tarry a intensely rival and swarming market. It will have to steal consumers’ courtesy away from the shortly to launch Google TV as well as a newly introduced $100 Apple TV.

Intel hopes its poke in a PERSONAL COMPUTER marketplace will put it forward of competitors. In bundling a program as well as chips into a laptop, Intel may have the placement channel which couple of of its competitors can compare.

But to get there, it will have to find a approach to cut price as well as confederate a $100 Netgear adapter into the laptop.