Full HD over-air. Only a power cable is needed.
We all want our porn Disney movies to be showing on our HD TV sets in all their HD glory, but we may have those movies stored on a central server or have to play them in a noisy player (I am looking at you Xbox360 and Playstation). We just spotted some new tech developed by Pulse-Link that allows a 100% high def image to be sent over the air directly to a TV set.
Their TV has no extra boxes or wires going to the back of the screen. All they have is one single power cable. Much better than the usual twist fest that is the back of many entertainment set-ups. Better yet, the demo at Pulse-Link’s Carlsbad headquarters is sending the crisp HD signal streaming across the room wirelessly using the company’s silicon chips. The DVD player sits about 25 feet away behind a wall, highlighting that the their technology doesn’t need a direct line-of-sight to work. (please can you wipe that little bit of spit off the side of your mouth? Thanks.).
Moving huge high-definition TV signals wirelessly turns out to be a tricky task. It took Pulse-Link eight years to develop chips capable of doing it. Now – with development finally completed – comes the hard part: getting the chips adopted in the marketplace. We guess this may happen quite quickly, much like the adoption of the “free view” technology in the UK is now common place in most TV sets.
“We’ve been working for over two years with this technology, looking at integrating this into digital displays on the business-to-business side first,” said John Araki, a vice president for for Westinghouse Digital. “We’re looking to validate this technology.”
Sweet tech, and likely at the right time, but we will only be really excited by this when it is coming built in to 40”+ OLED TV sets. If that is not going to happen soon then a simple beer dispenser in the arm of the sofa will do just fine for now.
11:01 am on March 22nd, 2008
Looks cool. Shame it is not out today though. :(
11:05 am on March 22nd, 2008
But Adam, this is the tech world, and they have it working so it probably wont be long at all. ! I am as excited as hell! Whoop whoop!
Greg
11:27 am on March 22nd, 2008
Yup, the tech does look good.
@Adam - I understand your annoyance. We feel the same.
@Greg - glad you are such an excited little bunny ;)
11:52 am on March 22nd, 2008
A loud xbox 360 is just a good excuse to turn the volume up!
11:57 am on March 22nd, 2008
@Earl - Couldn’t agree more, but not so much so at night though eh? Going to be installing the xbox into the wall soon and will be putting up a vid tutorial on it ;)