Long Range Wireless Technology

But as TV and videoscreen makers make sets capable of displaying 1080p video where the stands for progressive image scanning to exploit its smoother scanning and crisper images, twice as much information will need to be transferred to produce each frame. He also notes that high data rates require more complex signal modulation schemes that make components more expensive than they have to be. SiBeam Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif.based fabricationless semiconductor company, aims to dramatically cut the price of these US 1000plus components, putting wireless AV connectivity within the reach of the average consumer.

And if the movies, for which picture quality is paramount, are compressed, cant imagine what advantage an uncompressed signal would offer the home viewer. Email Print Comments Reprints Newsletters Del. icio.

Cool as SiBeams technology is, its insistence that the OmniLink60 will transmit uncompressed signals be shortsighted. And if the movies, for which picture quality is paramount, are compressed, cant imagine what advantage an uncompressed signal would offer the home viewer.. SiBeam spokesperson says that this breakthrough will make these transponders so cheap that theyll be negligible addition to the bill of materials for TVs and other home electronics equipped with them.

At present, with video signals being transmitted in 1080i shorthand for video mode with lines of vertical resolution that are interlaced, the datatransfer rate of SiBeams chips is more than sufficient for delivering every packet making up digital signal. Doug Bartow, marketing manager at Analog Devices Inc., in Norwood, Mass., one of the device makers working with SiBeam to produce commercial versions of its prototype transceivers, says that SiBeams claim ignores what he calls the raterange tradeoff.

SiBeam spokesperson says that this breakthrough will make these transponders so cheap that theyll be negligible addition to the bill of materials for TVs and other home electronics equipped with them. He notes that copies of feature films sent to cinemas with digital projectors are compressed. He also notes that high data rates require more complex signal modulation schemes that make components more expensive than they have to be. Doug Bartow, marketing manager at Analog Devices Inc., in Norwood, Mass.