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Wireless HDMI Prototype Announced

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thats-a-lotta-bits-in-the-air dept.

legoburner writes "Tzero Technologies and Analog Devices announced that they have created a wireless HDMI interface for HDTVs, next-gen DVD players, and set-top boxes. The backbone for the technology is ultrawideband, also used as a future replacement for wired USB. The Analog Device compresses data with the [lossy] JPEG2000 video codec, which is then packetized and encrypted, and transmitted via the Tzero MAC and PHY chip."

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  1. Women! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny
    Tzero and Analog executives say that wireless HDMI will make for much more aesthetically pleasing HD systems, which, according to them, will make women happier in the selection of home theater systems.

    "One of the things we are hearing more and more now is that the disinterested spouse is taking a more active role in selecting and hanging the television, typically that's the wife," Bucklen said. "That's all well and good until you start dragging cables into the solution. HDI cables are expensive and bulky and we think that a wireless approach can give consumers the flexibility to put televisions where they want them."
    The 1950s called. They want their mentality back.
    1. Re:Women! by legoburner · · Score: 4, Funny

      And with jpeg as the codec, they can keep their 1950s picture quality too!

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  2. Another Sony Delay.. by saboola · · Score: 5, Funny

    In other news, in an attempt to make the PS3 future proof, Sony has once again delayed the PS3 till 2009 so that they may integrate wireless HDMI. Wireless HDMI will not come standard however, but be part of the 1500 dollar "ZOMG" SKU.

    1. Re:Another Sony Delay.. by EddieBurkett · · Score: 4, Funny

      At least that would explain why they aren't including an HDMI cable with the PS3...

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      The only thing I hate more than hypocrites are people who hate hypocrites.
  3. See! by yakhan451 · · Score: 4, Funny

    See! Sony's once again ahead of the curve, not shipping the PS3 with an HDMI cable.

  4. The Pulse by Arkiel · · Score: 1, Funny

    Dead horse, I know.

    Now included free with every PS3! A wireless device you can't live with/out!
    Sony's hotshit ultrawideband technology summons soul-sucking ghosts from another dimension to EAT YOUR SOUL!
    [watch them spin it as a viral marketing scheme]

  5. Ohhhh the audiophile victims.... by codefrog · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can already picture the audiophile products which will at no small cost somehow imbue the air in your living room with better wireless transmission characteristics...
    Maybe even a vacuum chamber so you don't degrade your digital transmission. It sure would suck to have your bits coming through the ether in low fidelity.

    Of course we all know that movies looked better on vinyl anyway.

    1. Re:Ohhhh the audiophile victims.... by Formica · · Score: 3, Funny

      Maybe this would work: WiFi Speed Spray(TM)
      Wrong frequency band, though, ....

  6. Alternate joke by British · · Score: 4, Funny

    Future news: Sony announces that the new Wireless HDMI will not be shipped with the PS3.

  7. Re:$100??? WTF??? by charstar · · Score: 2, Funny

    My problem usually goes like this:

    1) need cable for whatever reason
    2) where can i get one around here? best buy? circuit city? compusa?
    3) drive to one of the above
    4) "where are the cables?"
    5) get pointed to a wall of Monster stuff
    6) "do you carry any thing else?"
    7) sigh
    8) GOTO 3
    9) hurt myself trying to open the packaging