The HDMI interface has lately been finding its way onto the computer market arfter just being present on the home electronics market for a few years. Now it seems that the HDMI technology will go through a rapid usual evolution as two companies called Tzero Technologies and Analog Devices recently announced it has developed a wireless HDMI interface. The wireless HDMI interface will be used by the next generation DVD player, HDTV and other similar units. What separates Tzero and ADI’s technology from previous wireless HDMI interfaces is that it uses a standardized system set already in 2003. This should mean that it has full compatibility with other HDMI units.
The system consists out of a transmitter and a receiver, the transmitters used today are the size of a regular laptop (!?) but Tzero’s VP Dan Karr says that the size will be reduced during the development stage. The Ultrawideband technology which will be used by Wireless USB will also be used by Wireless HDMI to send video signals between transmitter and receiver;
“The wireless HDMI design features non-line-of-sight operation that enables devices to communicate wirelessly through walls and extend across multiple rooms. It also features transmission quality up to 10 million times greater than other wireless networks, and transmission speeds of up to 480 Mbps per second to support even the highest demands of high-definition video.”
The wireless technology will be presented to home electronics manufacturers the coming months but they have to act fast because products sporting Wireless HDMI is suppose to be ready in November this year.
