Haier and Freescale teaming up on wireless LCD TV with ultra wideband
By Peter Rojas 
posted June 22nd 2005 9:03AM
posted June 22nd 2005 9:03AM
This may or may not be the very first announced product with ultra wideband
(UWB), but Freescale Semiconductor is
teaming up with Haier on a new wireless 37-inch LCD TV that uses their version of ultra wideband to wirelessly connect
up to a server containing a set-top cable box. The big deal? UWB has the bandwidth to beam an HDTV signal across a room
(the Haier TV has a range of about 60 feet), which means you'll have at least one less cable to worry about (it should
also give you little more freedom to put your TV wherever you want since it won't be tethered to your cable box). The
TV should be on sale in China by the end of 2005 and hit the US sometime next year.
[Via The Wireless Weblog]
UWB allowed in China ?
Just how fast is UWB? With a name like that, I'm assuming it at least hits gigabit speeds, right?
Sounds cool! I wish I could cut all the wires on ALL of my electronic equipment...
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I read its potential is 1GBps, so is this a replacement for 802.11? or is it just for short distances?
>Just how fast is UWB?
100GB/sec theoretical under ideal conditions with no interferers, although I hear from a friend getting a PHD related to UWB that the bandwidth drops off dramatically with distance. You should be able to get the 15-25MB/sec required for HDTV, enough to do whole house coverage from a single base station. Add another 2MB/sec for undecoded Dolby Digital or DTS for the audio, and you could be seeing devices in a few years that make the wireless home theater a reality. Of course as with all RF devices, UMMV.
wtf won't someone do this for audio