It could have been great | LG AN-WL100W Wireless Media Kit

highly recomended - great product | LG AN-WL100W Wireless Media Kit

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	• LG AN-WL100W Wireless Media Kit LG Electronics (formerly Zenith) LG Electronics (formerly Zenith), 2010 average customer review:based on 6 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Works Flawlessly!

Although I received the Media Kit free of charge, for purchasing the LG 55LE8500, 55-inch LED HDTV, I would have purchased it anyway. It works as advertised. The only cord attached to the television is the power cord. Everything else is attached to the Media Kit. It works flawlessly. There is never any interruption in service. It is so unobtrusive that I almost forget it exists! My television is not wall-mounted yet. It sits on a console. The Media Kit sits to the side of the television. There is no direct line of contact between them. Yet everything works perfectly. LG has created a real winner!

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It could have been great

I purchased the LG 60pk750 a few weeks ago and love it. I have it wall mounted in a location which is VERY difficult to run wires to. Until now, I have had it temporarily hardwired to my DVR with exposed cable until I found a better way. Enter the "LG AN-WL100W Wireless Media Kit". I was skeptical about wireless HD, but decided to give it a try after reading the small amount of online reviews. Really not much info available about this product, but did find useful info at Crutchfield and home theater magazine. I hope that this review informs people about this product better.

Functionality:
Before I mounted my TV back on the wall, I decided to test the results through the AN-WL100W (smart, huh). I was actually very surprised... the picture was really good. I watched Discovery HD for a while, flipping between hardwired and wireless and saw NO difference. At times I thought I saw picture degradation, but I would flip back to the hardwired and realized that the source was the problem (broadcast HD is hit or miss). Don't have my Bluray yet, so this is the best reference I had. Sound was never a problem, though I was just using the TVs tiny speakers- I can say that it sounded just like the hardwired. For this test, the head unit was about 4 feet away, directly behind the TV, behind a wall in my garage(drywall-studs-plywood-drywall).
Later, I mounted my TV with the wireless dongle connected and in place, and put the headunit where I planned to keep it, in a AV closet approximately 10 feet from the center of the TV, to the right front of the TV. This time I could not get sufficient signal strength to get picture. I could not believe it! The total distance from the headunit to the dongle was about 12 feet- line-of-sight obstacles were a regular interior wall (drywall,studs,drywall), and the TV itself (since the dongle is mounted on the back). The screen would show that it saw the headunit and was tryng to establish picture, but signal strength was too low.

Form:
The product itself is really nice looking- no question. However, I have a huge issue with the dongle size and installation. The dongle is TOO BIG. The AN-WL100W was custom designed for these LG TVs, yet they still managed to allow the dongle to be the tallest protrusion on the back of the set! WTH?!? This is a problem if you are wall-mounting (why else would you buy this product if you were using a stand on a cabinet?). Similarly, the HDMI and control cables which plug into the back of the TV are not designed with 90 angles, so they get all bent and crimped up against the wall too. With so much design going into the electronics of the AN-WL100W, it simply blows my mind that they didn't make wall-mounting a slam-dunk by making the dongle just a bit thinner and supplying cables with 90 bends!

Summary:

I was hoping that going wireless (and paying $300) would simplify my location situation. I also liked the fact that it had nice IR repeaters and integrated switching controlled by the TV. The signal quality was good at very short ranges, but was useless at about 12 feet with a reasonable obstruction. I don't know how practical this is, because I think most people shelling out $300 for this are buying it because they might have an obstruction or distance situation. I would have kept fiddling with it if it hadn't been for the wall-mounting issues mentioned earlier. This sealed the deal for me to return it.

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highly recomended - great product

This product is great! The picture quality is fantastic! Colors are stunning and the connection is rock solid!

I am streaming wirelessly full HD 1080p 60Hz from my Blu -Ray player to my new 55 inch LG LED TV and the quality is just as good as a top-of-the-line HDMI cable. In fact, I tested it just to be sure, and I could not tell the difference between HDMI and wireless. I can have all my A/V devices hidden in my media center cabinet and wirelessly send the video to the TV across the room. The receiver unit is small and hidden behind the TV, and it gets its power from the TV. So my set up is now clean of unnecessary cables and picture quality is superb.

Great Product! - highly recommended!

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Love this wireless connection

I hooked up the receiver to our new LG flat screen, connected our BlueRay, Cable DVR and Computer to it and the connection to the TV was seamless. Picture is great and the easy of setup and use could not have been easier. The flat screen even turns the unit on and off automatically. We could not be more pleased with the unit and love not having to run so many wires to the flat screen. Just Great!

Impressed

I was a little nervous about how the item would perform given some of these reviews, but as long as theres no wall or significant object interference b/w the media kit and the TV it should work great. Does the job for eliminating annoying wires from TV to receivers.

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