Westinghouse Unveiling Wireless LCD

By Greg Tarr -- TWICE, January 3, 2008

Las Vegas —Westinghouse Digital Electronics and UWB semiconductor manufacturer Pulse~LINK will use the International CES next week to unveil one of the world’s first fully integrated wireless HDTV displays.

The commercial grade high definition LCD TV, which will debut at the CES Unveiled event at 4 p.m. Jan. 5 in the Las Vegas Sands/Venetian Marco Polo Ballroom, will incorporate Pulse~LINK’s integrated CWave UWB Wireless HDMI technology.

“Our focus at Westinghouse Digital has been centered around delivering the best HD has to offer,” stated John Araki, Westinghouse Digital commercial business unit VP and general manager. “HDMI digital transport provides the full HD resolution our customers expect and we are extremely impressed with the performance and capabilities of Pulse~LINK’s Wireless HDMI solution. The fact that it is fully integrated into our HDTV display is unprecedented in the industry and will certainly raise expectations for high quality ready-to-mount wall display products in the marketplace.”

The Westinghouse Digital Wireless HDMI HDTV is planned for initial commercial release to the business-to-business digital signage market in the second quarter of 2008.

CWave HDMI products offer real-time visually lossless wireless streaming of high quality audio and video content between entertainment source devices and HDTV displays, the company said.

With the integration of CWave Wireless HDMI, digital display products can be mounted anywhere in the room without needing to run data cabling from the TV to the content source, such as a DVR, Blu-ray or HD DVD player, or a live cable or satellite feed.

Video data is encoded using the JPEG2000 video codec, the same codec used by movie theaters for “Digital Cinema,” providing a secure high quality HD experience. Pulse-LINK’s Wireless HDMI solution is engineered to be equivalent in both content protection and visual experience to a wired HDMI connection.