New Wireless Chipset Can Deliver Uncompressed HDTV to Many R

[Dale]

Announcements like the one below are beginning to densely populate the news services. It is a clear indicator that we were on the threshold of a great liberation from complicated cabling and household distribution headaches. IBM and MediaTek jointly made a similar announcement yesterday and still others were showing their wireless wares at the recent DisplaySearch HDTV Conference held a week ago in Hollywood. I highlight this entry only to highlight the general category. I think we will all want to know more about this kind of household distribution, so stay tuned to HDTV Magazine for the latest. A success in this category also bodes well for the enterprise of HDTV set making and retail selling since the gray question of how to hook up a second and third set to an HDTV source starts to have a clearer wireless answer. Like all things appealing to the consumers there will be format wars with which to contend. We will do our best to sort it out for you._ Dale

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RADIOSPIRE NETWORKS ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF ITS AIRHOOK™ CHIPSET FOR IN-ROOM WIRELESS HD

Breakthrough Technology Provides the Highest Bandwidth Available Today for Delivering the Best Quality HD at the Lowest Cost


Hudson, MA - October 23, 2007 - Radiospire Networks today announced the availability of its AirHook™ chipset, the industry's highest bandwidth wireless HD connectivity solution. The AirHook chipset allows display manufacturers to...

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[bigrongmail]

I was curious, since this will be wireless, should it not be able to be distributed to several units at a time without the use of splitters? For example, if this technology became a standard, when you go to a Best Buy, they could distribute the same HDTV video to all the display models without the expensive signal distribution systems they currently use? I see most stores are using a component distribution system which is both costly and degrades the picture quality. I would foresee this technology to work similar to Bluetooth where you set trusted links between multiple hardware. Thus, a set-top-box would broadcast a signal and each TV would be able to tune in that STB. My guess is that range would be somewhat limited, but should be fine for most people's systems, using internal antennas.

[stevekaden]

I would be suspect that this would not work with multiple displays (or HDMI receive points). Just as you can not split HDMI now, due to the need for each HDMI transmit-receive chip pair to handshake the HDCP protocol. And that one pair at a time.

That is - the HDMI chips behind the wire(less) still must act just as before. Of course I could be wrong.