Samsung has developed a tiny System-On-Chip (SoC) design featuring an ARM CPU, ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless connection, memory controller, and flash memory that’ll start appearing in the next few months inside cameras and mobile phones. → Read More
The fine folks at THX have taken note of the current home theater landscape and deemed it sub-par when it comes to surround sound. That may or may not be true, but I’d like to think someone at THX thought that at some point. Developed in conjunction with Radiient, the THX Roomcaster system taps ultra-wideband wireless technology to unshackle your surround system from its wired overlords. The technology can also be embedded into AV receivers, game consoles, headphones and anything that sends and receives content. → Read More
It’s gonna be a long, cold, dark, cord-filled winter for those of you waiting for wireless HDMI devices from the likes of Belkin (FlyWire shown above) and Monster Cable. Electronic House is reporting that the technology’s not quite there yet. An unidentified owner of an A/V store in Manhattan told EH the following: “HDMI is not perfected yet. I was eagerly awaiting shipments from both Monster and Belkin but I understand there have been more difficulties in getting various products to talk to each other in this fashion.” It was thought that Belkin would reveal ready-for-market devices at CES in January this year but company spokesperson Melody Chalaban says that Belkin is “now planning a spring launch and expect it to be perfect then.” Monster is expected to reveal its devices sometime in the second quarter of next year. UPDATE: Apparently the FlyWire devices from Belkin will be available in late January, so that’s a good sign. Melody Chalaban sent over an e-mail saying the following: “Just saw your post about FlyWire being delayed. Yes, it’s been delayed due to compliance issues, and it will be available late January 2009. I was misquoted in the original post from Electronic House.” So that’s late January, not a spring launch as originally reported. Sorry for the mix-up. → Read More
It’s a little unclear in the AP report whether or not Monster is releasing two separate wireless HD kits or just one. I’m positive the latter is the case here. Monster is utilizing the Sigma Designs’ UWB technology. You may recall that Westinghouse announced an LCD TV back at CES with built-in UWB. The Digital Express HD kit includes a receiver that connects to your HDTV via HDMI along with a transmitter that connects to any source of content like your DVR, Cable box or DVD player and streams said content back to your HDTV, upscaling when necessary. The Digital Express HD kit is set for an October launch for $299.95. → Read More
What’s all this about wireless HDTVs? Well, Westinghouse is set to showcase an ultrawideband HDTV with Pulse-LINK at CES using PL’s CWave wireless HDMI technology. What this essentially means is that your HDTV can link up with a source of content like a Blu-ray or HD DVD player or even your DVR and cable feed, which will stream to your set – wait for it – wirelessly. The video feed is encoded using JPEG2000 video codec, which is what theaters tout as “Digital Cinema”. The CWave UWB chipset was tested and showed that the 1.35 Gbps OTA signaling rate delivered 890 Mbps application layer throughput. You’ll have to keep your content sources close to get a high throughput rate, though. At eight feet the throughput surpassed 500 Mbps and more than 115 Mbps up to 40 feet. That’s not bad at all. While the set will debut at CES, consumers won’t be getting one anytime soon. The Westinghouse Digital Wireless HDMI HDTV will be released for B2B digital signage sometime in Q2. Bummer. → Read More
Toshiba has announced that the ultra-wideband, UWB, technology we heard about at CES is now readily available in the uber expensive R400 Tablet PC/laptop line. While UWB lets you transfer data faster than Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, the biggest complaint about UWB is that its range is limited to 3 feet. The docking station aka port replicator includes four USB ports, audio port and an Ethernet port for the low, low price of $500. Toshiba laptops get wireless dock [Yahoo! News] → Read More
<img src="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/video components." The adapters will be sold under the Terk brand name (the antenna people!), using UWB to send high-definition video streams wirelessly around your place of occupancy or business. It’s non-line-of-sight so you can send signals through walls and ceilings with wired transmission quality from HDMI, component video, composite video and analog audio sources output to HDMI with full HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) support. Audiovox Teams with Tzero to Deliver Wireless Multimedia Adapters [press release] → Read More
