Uncompressed High Definition Video over Wireless to be Demoed at CES

[Clint DeBoer]

AMIMON, Inc., an emerging leader in semiconductor technology for wireless transmission of high-definition (HD) video, today announced it will demonstrate its revolutionary uncompressed high-definition video technology at the Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas January 5-8, 2006. AMIMON's solution delivers wireless uncompressed HD video streams with quality equivalent to that achieved with wired interfaces, such as HDMI. We'll want to see this for ourselves but it bodes well for the steps necessary to bring full A/V wireless in the home.

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[westcott]

If this technolgy is the real thing, maybe Directv can learn a thing or two.

Even SD programming is so compressed, it is almost unwatchable on my 27" CRT TV.

[w.e-coyote]

Not 100% sure about this but I don't think that uncompressed video itself will address the issue of resolution. It would only make sense it the whole chain from video production to distribution and display were uncompressed. If at some point in the chain there is compression or filtering that will be final resolution that you get.

By the way, what will uncompressed video get me over and above, let's say 1080p compressed MPEG2 or H.264? Will I ever be able to really see the difference?

[BMXTRIX]

I think the only really good wireless applications are more PC related anyway. I don't know how many times I have heard...

"I'm setting up a projector with a PC and want to run video wireless."

With HD, sure it's nifty, but for what applications? Is this going to lead to wireless A/V receivers that have component inputs and wireless out that connect directly to TVs?

I would have to say - THAT would be cool. The idea of hanging a wi-vid 50" plasma over the fireplace and just having to figure out how to get a single power line cable to the display... Add surround with a single wi-vid center channel... Heck, power is already there.

It's a nifty idea, but wireless often has as many issues as just running the lines to begin with. And vaporware at trade shows has a nifty way of taking 5 -> 1,000 years before ever becoming an actual consumer product that is useful.

Let's keep our fingers crossed for something useful.

[agarwalro]

Originally Posted by BMXTRIX

I would have to say - THAT would be cool. The idea of hanging a wi-vid 50" plasma over the fireplace and just having to figure out how to get a single power line cable to the display... Add surround with a single wi-vid center channel... Heck, power is already there.

Why stop there? Think BIG.

Originally Posted by BMXTRIX

Is this going to lead to wireless A/V receivers that have component inputs and wireless out that connect directly to TVs?

Imagen if all your devices could communicate wirelessly. All you need to do is plug them in, power up, and vola. Instead of all those connectors at the back of the receiver all you will have is a small antenna and power plug. Same for all the other CD, DVD players and STBs, DVRs etc.

But there is a big problem. Anyone with a wireless computer network set up in their house knows... if for some reason you are having communication problems, you have to disconnect everything from the power source and power up in a specific order, and hope your problem is fixed. The dreaded "Power Cycle your devices" issue.