uncompressed 1080p Wireless HDMI announced

[Ruairi Robinson]

this may be of interest to some people - it certainly is to me. Could be really useful for doing handheld work, etc... cheap too!

from engadget HD

Philips has announced its showing off a wireless HDMI product, based on Ultra Wideband at this year's CES. With enough bandwidth to send an uncompressed HD stream of up to 1080p resolution, the company claims its solution solves the problem of arranging components and display devices without affecting the A/V experience. The ultra wideband frequency range should keep it free from interference caused by cell phones, WiFi or microwaves. Oddly, the press release continually refers to the SWW1800 as a "wireless cable", which would likely explain the dearth of available pictures as they try to find a way to photograph it. We'll have to see if we can get a look at it on the CES show floor, but the company expects to debut it in May with an MSRP of $299.

http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/08/philips-intros-wireless-hdmi/

Cheers,
R.

[jbeale]

Uncompressed 1080p over the air is pretty amazing. A range of 25 feet doesn't seem very exciting, still, no doubt it could be extended with suitable antennas.

[Shawn Nelson]

Oh this would be so cool. I could then have a 32" consumer HDTV 20ft from my Red for the director, script cont, producer, etc. without having to run a 20ft cable. Sweet....

[Ruairi Robinson]

Oh this would be so cool. I could then have a 32" consumer HDTV 20ft from my Red for the director, script cont, producer, etc. without having to run a 20ft cable. Sweet....

Yeah - something like a Dell 24" 1920x1200 monitor would be good enough for me. even if it's not perfectly calibrated, it'll still be 1000 times better than a video tab from a 35mm camera. And not freakishly heavy or bulky!

Luckily I have one already...

R.

[Finner]

Really cool Ruairi. Any idea on the size and weight of the transmiter portion? $299 would be incredible to pay for a HD transmitter and reciever.

[Ruairi Robinson]

Really cool Ruairi. Any idea on the size and weight of the transmiter portion? $299 would be incredible to pay for a HD transmitter and reciever.

No idea, sorry - that's the first I've heard of it too!

R.

[Chris Kenny]

This is pretty insane. On cold days, you can probably warm up on set by standing next to the transmitter. Heh.

[CVB]

I was wondering if anyone would be interested in taking off the shelf high-res lcd's and ruggedizing them. Basically you would take the whole system apart, reverse engineer all the mounting locations, and make a big sheetmetal or machined aluminum enclosure with all the connectors. Put a big plexi screen in front of it and voila! Instant portable monitoring setup.

I took a quick look at my 19" dell screen and it only uses 14V @ 3A.... with a 98Wh 14.8V battery you could get a good 2 hours out of it. I'm sure the bigger screen draw more but you could put a couple batteries on the back so you could hot-swap them.

If there was enough interest I'd even entertain taking it on :)

EDIT: It looks like the 30" sucks up 147W (ouch)

[Don Woods]

This could be a very nice soultion for wireless video monitoring such as Stedicam work. for only $299 I can afford that.

[Anders Holck]

A lot of wireless HDMI products were annouced at CES. (Phillips, ASUS, Tzero, AMIMON)
They seem to be based on UWB transmission and the ADV202 chipset (http://www.analog.com/en/prod/0,,ADV202,00.html).
This chipset does realtime JPEG2000 compression and encoding in both reversible and irreversible modes (Lossy and loss less)
Pretty cool technology...

[Finner]

This could be a very nice soultion for wireless video monitoring such as Stedicam work. for only $299 I can afford that.

Too Big? The shot of the transmiter and receiver on the link make them look a bit big and bulky to me. Anyone able to find info in size and weight?

[JD Holloway]

I like this,

I'd consider having my playback guy recording redundant 1080 p digital video as a cordless recording backup if it was reliable enough. Plus he can do some "pre-post" FX work for clients to view on set so they have an idea of what the final product will be.