“Tzero Technologies and Analog Devices have teamed up for a new way to watch HD content at home. The companies announced on Tuesday that they have combined their signature technologies into the first standards-based wireless High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) that will eliminate the need for connector cables between HD media devices,” Erica Ogg blogs for CNET.
“Tzero, a leader in ultrawideband (UWB) technology, and chipmaker Analog Devices seem to have recognized the demand for high-definition TVs, DVD players, set-top boxes and game consoles and the inevitable tangle of wires that comes with them,” Ogg writes.
“The most enticing feature of wireless HDMI is the power to eliminate all wires, except for the power source. Even better, the companies’ wireless interface doesn’t need a line of sight between any of the devices. That means you can squirrel away your media cabinet to one room and stream a TiVo, satellite, DVD player, Xbox and video iPod to three other TVs in the house up to 10 meters away,” Ogg writes. “By the time the Consumer Electronics Show rolls around in January, Tzero says we can expect a top-tier TV manufacturer to announce an HDTV with this chipset integrated into the display.”
Full article with more details here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Rainy Day” for the heads up.]
Sounds sweet!
What took them so long.
MDN Magic Word: idea. Damn scary if you ask me.
Sounds like they’re trying to hedge their bets announcing this before Apple’s big announcement next week.
Have a branch of ADI no more than five miles from my house. After perusing their site, I had no idea they were such a large, global company. Interesting…. (well, for me anyway)
And we can all bask in the glow of even more microwave background radiation. (But you never used to glow in the dark before!)
Oh man, about freakin’ time! Finally someone does a wireless interconnect.
Hope it works.
I was just packing up my stuff to move homes, and its incredible how messy things get once you try to unravel so many cables.
Hi-Fi Interconnects, power cables, speaker cables, USB cables, iPod cables, firewire cables… what a mess.
If only there was a way to eliminate all those wires.
Hold on, what about the iMac?
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I wonder if Erica has a brother named Vorbis?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I suppose that anything is possible, but how well does wireless interconnectivity really work? I would like to observe this technology in action, as well as read reviews about its performance in real world conditions. Anyone out there actually witness HDMI in action? If so, what do you think?
Hey rainy day I’m with you on this one, ultra wideband sounds like big experiment on the public, 10yrs down the road Ooops we made a mistake this stuff can make you sick. Ahh test it first please.
“Sounds like they’re trying to hedge their bets announcing this before Apple’s big announcement next week.”
True, moiety5. So, would that make them hedgehogs?
HDMI is on a lot of equipment right now. ie. my Pioneer Elite HDTV. It’s the wireless piece that is new.
I hope it’s wifi-N compatible.
If you put your media components in another room or cabinet, how do you control them? Most remote controls are infrared, meaning control is line of sight.