When choosing a Miracast playback device, you would typically be connecting to your display via HDMI, but as you can see above you can connect via the Belkin device via composite video and analog stereo connections, which means that even really old televisions don’t need to miss out on the fun.

This opens up the market for ARM and AMD, to name two of the other main chip vendors, to be able to be at the heart of solutions, including a variety of laptops and tablets from a huge number of OEMs, including Android devices alongside Windows 8.1 as well. Miracast builds on the Intel Wireless Display techologies built into the GPU capabilities of many recent Intel CPUs, but is vendor agnostic, so there is no longer a reliance on Intel CPU to deliver this capability. There are several different Miracast receivers available, including the ScreenBeam Pro, Belkin’s ScreenCast TV Adapter for Intel Wireless Display, and the Netgear PTV3000 to name some of the more popular ones in market.

Windows 8.1 incorporates support for the Miracast wireless display technologies, which allow a wireless 1080p and 5.1 surround sound streams to a Miracast display device.

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