Ultrathin Aquos offers wireless A/V

Philip Wong | May 01, 2008

Sharp has entered a partnership with Amimon Inc. to equipped its X-series Aquos LCD TVs with the latter's WHDI chipset. This technology allows a wireless audio-visual interlink between the Aquo's ultrathin panel and external tuner box without relying on traditional cabling. According to Amimon's press release, the system also has a 30m effective range and can penetrate multiple walls without the penalty of transmission lag.

The semiconductor manufacturer has added that WHDI is capable of supporting uncompressed 1080p video feeds with quality equivalent to wired HDMI interface. This sure sounds very promising on paper, but until we can sample a working product in our Lab, this could well be simply hot air and the usual sales speak. No further Asia launch details on the X-series Aquos were available at press time.

Via Engadget | Photo credit: Engadget

Filed under: Home AV
1 Comment | Bookmark | Share

del.icio.us

Digg this

Furl

Yahoo My Web

Google bookmarks

Facebook

close this

Add tag

To add tags, you need to become a member. It's FREE.

Cancel

Log in or sign in

ferdiei

View profile

Send mail

ferdiei says...
this was not a pure sales pitch. actual prototypes are already in the pipeline. and since this is mainly consumer-driven prospective, sooner or (a bit) later WHDi or products with HD-wireless connectivity on whatever platform will emerge in a not-so distant future which are far more sophisticated that these.

May 01, 2008 11:53