Sharp's X-Series LCD HDTVs offered with WHDI wireless link
By Darren Murph 
posted Apr 30th 2008 12:00AM
posted Apr 30th 2008 12:00AM
SHARP to Offer Ultra-thin LCD TV with Wireless HDTV Link by AMIMON
AMIMON's WHDI Technology Enables High Quality and Robust
Wireless Uncompressed HDTV Link to Sharp's New X-Series LCD TVs
Santa Clara, Calif. and Osaka, Japan – April 30, 2008 – AMIMON Inc., an emerging leader in semiconductor technology for wireless high-definition (HD) video, has partnered with leading LCD TV manufacturer Sharp Corporation to offer a wireless HDTV link for the Sharp X-Series ultra-thin LCD TVs. AMIMON's WHDI™ technology, capable of delivering uncompressed HD video streams wirelessly, will simplify the installation of Sharp's ultra-thin LCD TVs by eliminating the need for an audio/video cable between the TV panel and the separate tuner unit.
AMIMON's WHDI technology uses a unique video-modem approach to deliver wireless uncompressed HDTV. With a range of over 100 feet (30 meters), through multiple walls and with latency of less than one millisecond, WHDI technology offers universal wireless whole-home HD connectivity with quality equivalent to that achieved with HDMI™.
"WHDI is becoming the technology of choice for wireless HDTV," said Dr. Yoav Nissan-Cohen, chairman and CEO of AMIMON Inc. "With AMIMON's WHDI technology, consumers can enjoy wireless ultra-thin TV displays that are easy to install and easy on the eyes."
Sharp's new X-series models, which come in 37-, 42- and 46-inch screen sizes and are only 3.44 cm thick (at their thinnest part), go on sale in Japan in April. This series adopts a discrete component configuration that separates the display section from the tuner section, and these two sections can be connected with a cable or by using an optional wireless video transmitter unit that employs AMIMON's WHDI technology.
About Sharp Corporation
Sharp Corporation is a worldwide developer of innovative products and core technologies that play a key role in shaping the future of electronics. As a leader in liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and digital technologies, Sharp offers one of the broadest and most advanced lines of consumer electronics, information products and electronic components, while also creating new network businesses.
Sharp Corporation employs about 58,900 people in the world (as of December 31, 2007) and recorded consolidated annual sales of 3,127,771 million yen for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2007. For more information, please visit Sharp's Web site at http://sharp-world.com/index.html.
About AMIMON
AMIMON is a fabless semiconductor company pioneering wireless uncompressed high-definition video for universal connectivity among CE video devices. AMIMON's uncompressed Wireless High-Definition Interface (WHDI™) enables HDTV manufacturers to offer consumers wireless flat panel displays that can interface wirelessly to all HD video sources throughout the home at a quality equivalent to that achieved with wired interfaces such as HDMI™.
The company is headquartered in Herzlia, Israel, with offices in Santa Clara, Calif., USA; Tokyo, Japan; and Seoul, Korea. More information is available at: www.AMIMON.com.
WHDI is a trademark of AMIMON, Ltd. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are those of their respective holders.
For a moment I thought the box was a PS3.
@AJ - yea, me too. It was the glossy back.
I can't wait til this hits our shores. The less wires the better...
but the wires make things fun. when you need to unplug ti for some reason, you feel like one of those guys on the bomb squad-pull the wrong wire and now everything is messed up.
I'm all for wireless internet and all that, but for home theatre, I prefer wires.
It's not like you will be moving around your 46" HDTV. Wires are safer. Look nicer (hey, I like the industrial ambient). Have a cleaner signal (ie. they don't needlessly use/waste parts of the RF spectrum). Are proven to not cause cancer. (Hey, there's no evidence that wireless actually causes cancer... But there is no evidence that is DOESN'T, either.)
Less wires is not always better. Making wireless the communication between the mouse and the PC is a God's gift to geeks. Making wireless the communication between an A/V source and your TV, is a total waste of a perfectly good part of the not-as-unlimited-as-you-think RF spectrum.
I agree with all but 1 of your reasons why wired is better, because if we use your logic to say there is no proof that wireless DOESN'T cause cancer, we can apply it to wires as well; there is no proof that wires DO cause cancer.
There have been numerous stories over the years of transformers emitting high levels of electromagnetic frequencies, and they are all connected by wires (read http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/grn/omega162.htm). I'm not trying to spook anyone, I love my mobile phone and my wireless (and wired) Internet, but there is no solid proof either are safe or unsafe.
Damnit, my post should have read:
"I agree with all but 1 of your reasons why wired is better, because if we use your logic to say there is no proof that wireless DOESN'T cause cancer, we can apply it to wires as well; there is no proof that wires DO NOT cause cancer."
It's so true. With wireless devices, you can feel the electromagnetism in the air all around you. That HDTV signal is literally going through your body as it emanates from the base station. It's a palpable feeling. I have read of studies that attempt to link wireless radiation with mood disorders. Personally I feel quite calmer when the devices in the house are turned off. It's like a high-pitched whining is gone from my central cortex.
"Using higher radio frequencies (RF) will avoid the interferences caused by the 'crowd' of applications, as seen today in the 2.4GHz band, and may also be the case in the future for the 5GHz frequency band"
".. AMIMON's wireless technology to transmit in an 'interference free’ frequency band, will allow AMIMON's solutions to reach even higher transmission rates .."
Well, hello Mr. Tumor!
(http://www.amimon.com/)
I'll believe "Uncompressed" when I see it.