Stream Video from Your Mobile Device with Mobile2Display

[Paul Martin]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.theunwired.net/?item=mirroring-quartics-announces-mobile2display-technology-for-windows-mobile' target='_blank'>http://www.theunwired.net/?item=mir...-windows-mobile</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Quartics, a provider of video processing solutions enabling streaming media over wireless and wired networks, yesterday introduced its latest technology - Mobile2Display. Mobile2Display enables the wireless transmission of content from a mobile device, including Window's Mobile 5.0 or 6-based PDAs, smartphones, etc., to projectors, TVs and monitors as well as other displays. Leveraging Quartics' award-winning PC2TV technology, Mobile2Display allows consumers to wirelessly send content from a mobile phone to a display of their choice. For example, a business professional could open a PowerPoint presentation on a PDA and wirelessly transmit the presentation to a projector or flat screen-without having to use a personal computer. Similarly, cell phone users can transmit their photos and videos to a larger display, such as a TV or projector, making it easy to view and share them with friends."</i> <br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/martin-20080119_quartics-mobile2display-gizmodo.jpg" /><br /><span><i>Photo from <a href="http://gizmodo.com/341116/quartics-mobile2display-wirelessly-clones-your-phone">Gizmodo</a></i></span><br /><br />Quartics' current PC2TV technology utilizes a router-type device on the receiving end. According to the <a href="http://www.quartics.com/uploads/NR%20QRT%20Mobile2Display%20FINAL.pdf">press release</a> (<i>pdf</i>), "<i>Mobile2Display will be available from select manufacturers of PDAs and Smartphones via retail and e-tail channels during Q2 2008</i>" so it sounds like this will be an embedded option for manufacturers. However, <a href="http://gizmodo.com/341116/quartics-mobile2display-wirelessly-clones-your-phone">Gizmodo's coverage</a> indicates a wifi dongle at the Quartics CES 2008 booth, so it should be interesting to see how this is brought to market.

[QwalityGuy]

This was one really interesting technology coming out of a largely boring CES. You can walk into a conference room or lecture hall now with just your mobile phone and connect to the projector wirelessly. You can deliver presentations without lugging around a laptop across the country or across the office.

[Paul Martin]

This was one really interesting technology coming out of a largely boring CES. You can walk into a conference room or lecture hall now with just your mobile phone and connect to the projector wirelessly. You can deliver presentations without lugging around a laptop across the country or across the office.

Thanks for the first-hand report. So, was it obvious whether this can be added to the current gen of PDAs and smartphones or will this needed to be added by the OEM?

[Dyvim]

This brings up an interesting point. Say you're giving a slide presentation from your mobile device wirelessly transmitting to the projector. What happens when someone else in the audience has a mobile device with the same client installed. Can he hi-jack (wi-jack?) your presentation and put up his own slide? This could take the place of the time-honored tradition of slipping embarassing joke slides into someone's slide carousel for their PhD thesis defense talk. :D

[Paul Martin]

Ohhh, that's an intriguing thought! Wonder if there's some kind of security pairing, like BT?

[QwalityGuy]

Since the PDAs only need our software, which is compatible with Windows Mobile 5 or Windows Mobile 6, Mobile2Display will work with any existing PDAs with this OS software.

Also, only one person will be allowed to present (project a stream) at a time. Unless that connection is relinquished, someone else cannot take control and start presenting their slides.

If you've used the PC2TV technology, you should have an idea of what it's like in practice.

[Paul Martin]

Since the PDAs only need our software, which is compatible with Windows Mobile 5 or Windows Mobile 6, Mobile2Display will work with any existing PDAs with this OS software.

Also, only one person will be allowed to present (project a stream) at a time. Unless that connection is relinquished, someone else cannot take control and start presenting their slides.

If you've used the PC2TV technology, you should have an idea of what it's like in practice.

Thanks for the update. Sounds like a nice package. Also, I appreciate the clarification on "security". Any public info yet on when this will reach the market?