Westinghouse & Pulse-Link's Wireless HDMI live @ CES

Pulse-Link and Westinghouse displayed their UWB-equipped wireless HDMI LCD, streaming 1080p goodness from an attached Blu-ray player. The JPEG2000 compression showed no trace of artifacting as the video passed three, shoot, maybe four feet without the aid of such antiquated devices as cables. Due for B2B applications soon, they still hope to make this available for consumers by year-end with a minimal cost premium over wired devices (read: a few hundred dollars), until then just check out these pics and dream of the future.

Westinghouse Digital Wireless HDMI LCD

[Sneakz Posted Jan 6th 2008 12:05AM]

So, if Wi-Fi causes cancer, then standing between the transmitter and the LCD (and all the bandwidth it has) is like instant death.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 6th 2008 12:17AM]

Wait. I spend a few hundred dollars to eliminate 1 cable costing as little as $20, and I still need a cable to the video source.

Maybe it's the future indeed, after US Dollar inflation makes $20 now worth that much more.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 6th 2008 12:49AM]

The eventual target for this will be people who want to hang a projector in a room that won't allow them run an in-wall/ceiling cabling. Another application is hiding gear in a closet or out of sight for a wall-mounted plasma/lcd or ceiling mounted projector. At 3-4 ft it doesn't make a great deal of sense, but at longer distances and in certain applications it does make a good deal of sense, especially in the $200 - $300 range.

[patches66 Posted Jan 6th 2008 5:03AM]

good thing it's meant to be hidden, because it sure isn't pretty.

[smcquade Posted Jan 6th 2008 6:03AM]

exactly. this thing NEEDS to be hidden.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 6th 2008 1:43PM]

Couple of clarifications. First, the 3-4 feet demonstrated was a function of the fact that Unveiled exhibitors are only allowed a single tabletop to display their wares at the event. No greater distance is possible in those constraints. The technology works at over 40 feet wireless and will be demonstrated as such on the main CES floor.
- Second, the little box in the pictures isn't what should be focused on, the technology is hidden inside the TV (meaning antennas and microchip are where you can't see them). You couldn't see it in the photos, but that's the point.
- Third, that little box with Pulse~LINK logos on it is a transmitter "reference design" - meaning you as a consumer won't be able to buy it as shown in that picture. By the time you can buy it, it will be housed inside of some sleek little package or integrated inside your set-top-box, blu-ray player, or whatever. That transmitter design allows you to plug multiple HDMI source devices into one wireless transmit source (i.e, simultaneously plug in your set-top-box, AppleTV, Playstation, DVD player, etc.), then hang your TV wherever you want without running wires over to the TV.

So, it works at 40 feet, is hidden inside the TV, and works.