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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."

3 of 141 comments (clear)

  1. JPEG2000 is not inherently Lossy by topham · · Score: 4, Informative

    JPEG2000 has both lossless and lossy modes.

    Did I miss something in the article indicating which they were using?

  2. Most people's HD is compressed anyway by brunes69 · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you get your HD from digi cable or dish (which 90% of HDTV owners do), then the signal has already been compressed in MPEG2 or MPEG4 on it's way down the pipe.

    Then again, this thing is just adding in another compress/decompress cycle - not good IMO.

  3. Re:Women! by strstrep · · Score: 4, Informative

    JPEG and JPEG2000 are very different lossy image compression algorithms. JPEG uses discrete cosine transforms, whereas JPEG2000 uses wavelet transforms, which are much better at representing non-periodic data, like you'd see in motion video.