Hands on with the StreamHD from Warpia

Conclusion

The SteamHD is a powerful device capable of streaming full HD content relatively well, in an area with good point-to-point range and little wireless congestion. It’s an excellent solution for situations when a cable just can’t cut it, in the office or at home. However, while the StreamHD preformed very well, this isn’t exactly a device for your big expensive home audio setup. It’s a device primarily meant for ease of use and portability. It has an excellent use case in the office board room, at schools, universities and perhaps even in your living room as a quick down-and-dirty way to stream content from your laptop to your HDMI equipped HDTV.

A word to the gamers, we spend so much time rigging our machines to pump out as many frames as possible per second with a pipeline with as little latency as we can manage. This device isn’t for you and anyone out there who can’t immediately understand that wireless compressing and sending data to a display is going to add some latency needs to have their head checked. I would also like to mention that no where does Warpia state that this device is for gaming, it is strictly marketed as a tool to stream desktop and multimedia content.

All in all, this is a cool and unique device that, when used in a location with minimal wireless congestion, absolutely met our expectations. Specifically we liked the complete set of included cables, the modular power input design, the general form factor of the device and the overall quality of the test content we streamed.