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The Powercolor JustSling arrives in an orange box with a white sleeve over the top.
Underneath, a ‘reverse' colour scheme. A little like a Dutch football team outfit, but attractive.
Inside, the ‘receiver' and ‘transmitter' devices are encased inside thick, protective orange cardboard.
The bundle is extensive, and includes a plethora of cables and adapters.
Two HDMI cables are included for both input and output duties. There are two stand bases for each unit.
Powercolor include a mini USB to USB cable and a female version. They also include an IR extender cable.
Both receiver and transmitter are compact little devices, which look identical at quick glance, apart from the sticker on the front.
The WX1221 Receiver has a mini USB header for connection to a USB device, such as a keyboard or mouse. Closeby there are green LED lights for LINK and POWER status.
At the rear is the HDMI out connector alongside the power connector, and a label on the opposite side, detailing the product.
The transmitter has a pairing button for connection to the receiver, a mini USB to PC connector, alongside two green LED's for LINK and POWER status.
At the rear is the IR Blaster port, with HDMI in, and a power connector. On the opposite side is a label, detailing the product.
Inside both chassis are small boards with AMINON and ARM chips. The receiver is equipped with 512MB of Hynix H5pS5162GFR DDR2 memory. The ITE IT6613 is a high-performance HDMI transmitter, fully compatible with HDMI 1.3, compatible with HDMI 1.4a 3D and HDCP 1.4 compliance and also backward compatible to DVI 1.0 specifications. The IT6613 supports color depth of up to 36 bits (12 bits/color) and ensures robust transmission of high-quality uncompressed video content, along with state-of-the-art uncompressed and compressed digital audio content such as DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD in DVD/HD-DVD/Bluray players and settop boxes. The IT6613 also supports diverse 3D formats which are compliant with HDMI 1.4a 3D specification.
Really cool idea, shame about availabilty. wonder what that is all about.
Good product, I would use this actually as I only have one pc and I want sometimes to watch movies downstairs on my big tv. cant see it for sale anywhere in europe.
Rather unusual idea, like a ‘sling shot’ concept, which I guess is where they got the idea from. I read the original news story on this, did they change the name? it was initially called ‘sling it’?
Weird company, but as they are far east based, most of them are.
Not sure I would ever need this, but I cant say ive ever seen it done before. so kudos for the original design.
Shame they couldnt ake power from a USB port completely.
Love the idea ! i would probably go for a small media player like the AC RYAN as author says. however this would be really useful for a busy family setting with people wanting access to specific rooms when you need to watch something in a quieter part of the house. much easier than moving bluray players etc about.
Interesting idea, but its quite cluttering of the rooms with all those cables and adatpers etc.
Nice bit of wireless engineering, but its a small market, people will want a standalone networking media player for most jobs I think.
Why only germany ? did they do research and that audience want this or something? bizarre marketing decision.
Thanks for the review. Looks like a nice product, but as with all such products the price is usually an issue. I guess in this case availability is too. 🙂