Haier Corporation is launching the first consumer television with Ultra-Wideband (UWB) wireless A/V transmission and reception. This is groundbreaking tech!
The upcoming 37-inch LCD TV comes with a ‘digital media server’, where you connect up all your A/V sources. The server then uses UWB technology to transmit audio and video to the TV, wirelessly, up to 20 meters away – allowing for your LCD TV to be mounted pretty much anywhere in a room with only a power cable.
This new Ultra-Wideband technology, developed in partnership with Freescale, delivers throughput up to 110Mbps, enough to accomodate multiple HD video feeds. In contrast, current IP-over-WiFi technology generally falls under 10Mbps in actual use, well below the 20Mbps needed for low-end HD feeds, and just enough to sustain SD channels.
The TV is a newer 1080-line model, and the server unit includes HD tuner, DVD player, and PVR functionality. First available for China late in 2005, we’ll hopefully see it in the US and Europe in early 2006.
Read on for the press release.
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