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New Wireless Chipset Can Deliver Uncompressed HDTV to Many Rooms
By Dale Cripps
Founder & Co-Publisher
Posted on October 23, 2007
Category: Technology
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Announcements such as the one below are beginning to densely populate the news services. It is a clear indicator that we are on the threshold of a great liberation from complicated cabling and household distribution headaches. IBM and MediaTek jointly made a similar announcement yesterday and still others were showing their wireless wares at the recent DisplaySearch HDTV Conference held a week ago in Hollywood. I highlight this entry only to highlight the general category. I think we will all want to know more about this kind of household distribution, so stay tuned to HDTV Magazine for the latest. A success in this category also bodes well for the enterprises of HDTV set making and retail selling since the gray question of how to hook up a second and third set to an HDTV source starts to have a clearer wireless answer. Like all things appealing to the consumers there will be format wars with which to contend. We will do our best to sort it out for you. -Dale

RADIOSPIRE NETWORKS ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF ITS AIRHOOK™ CHIPSET FOR IN-ROOM WIRELESS HD

Breakthrough Technology Provides the Highest Bandwidth Available Today for Delivering the Best Quality HD at the Lowest Cost


Hudson, MA - October 23, 2007 - Radiospire Networks today announced the availability of its AirHook™ chipset, the industry's highest bandwidth wireless HD connectivity solution. The AirHook chipset allows display manufacturers to achieve uncompressed wireless HD at the lowest cost, making it the obvious platform for wireless connectivity and the best choice for today's home theater and gaming accessories, including cable replacement dongles, HDTVs, DVD players, game consoles, and other consumer electronics products.

Radiospire is the first company to break the bandwidth barriers that have inhibited other wireless solutions from achieving the same high-quality HD video that A/V cables provide. The AirHook chipset utilizes the widest bandwidth (1.7 GHz of unlicensed spectrum) and delivers the highest throughput (1.6 Gbps) of any product on the market, allowing for the transmission of pure, uncompressed audio and video.

"Radiospire's unique approach to wireless HD connectivity has the potential to deliver the highest bandwidth at the lowest cost," said Brian O'Rourke, principal analyst at In-Stat, a leading provider of market analysis and forecasts for end-user devices and semiconductors. "This value proposition may prove very compelling for the consumer electronics market, where this technology has the most potential in providing differentiation and allowing display and other CE manufacturers to capitalize on the fast-growing HDTV market."

Radiospire's AirHook technology is setting a new quality standard for wireless HD connectivity. Compared with 802.11n and WiMedia-based Ultra-Wideband (UWB) solutions, which have been repurposed for wireless HD connectivity, AirHook technology was purpose-built to deliver high-definition video with unlimited scalability. Based upon a 1.7 GHz radio link, the AirHook chipset delivers completely pure audio and video without the use of companion compression chips, which often degrade picture quality and unnecessarily introduce latency. The inherent bandwidth also allows AirHook-based products to achieve HD throughputs without having to resort to multiple antenna techniques that invariably add to system cost, complexity and size.

"Radiospire is redefining the wireless home entertainment landscape with a new class of wireless chipset products designed specifically for high-definition applications," said Paul Powers, CEO of Radiospire Networks. "Our innovative approach has allowed us to not only solve the difficult challenge of delivering cable-like quality without the wire, but to do it in a way that is easiest and most cost-efficient for the manufacturer."

As the first and only purpose-built wireless HD connectivity solution, the AirHook chipset efficiently and cost-effectively satisfies consumer demand for 1080p and can scale to meet future industry requirements. AirHook technology is designed for use in any wideband unlicensed spectrum, including 3.1 - 4.8 GHz and 57-66 GHz, and supports all major worldwide video formats.

AirHook chipsets are in production and ready for use today in consumer electronics products. For more information, visit www.radiospire.com.

Posted by Dale Cripps, October 23, 2007 10:36 AM

Reader Commentary

See Forum Topic: New Wireless Chipset Can Deliver Uncompressed HDTV to Many R (2 replies)
Oct 23, 12:40pm
I was curious, since this will be wireless, should it not be able to be distributed to several units at a time without the use of splitters? For example, if this technology became a standard, when you go to a Best Buy, they could distribute the same HDTV
Oct 23, 2:55pm
I would be suspect that this would not work with multiple displays (or HDMI receive points). Just as you can not split HDMI now, due to the need for each HDMI transmit-receive chip pair to handshake the HDCP protocol. And that one pair at a time. That
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About Dale Cripps

Dale Cripps is a professional journalist who has focused two thirds of his career on the subject of high-definition television. Upon completing his education in business and service in the military he formed Cripps and Associates, South Pasadena, California, in 1964, which operated as a market-development company for aerospace services. In 1983 he turned to television and began what has become a 20 year campaign to pioneer HDTV. For fifteen of those years he published the well-regarded HDTV Newsletter (an international monthly written for television professionals). During much of this same time he also served as the HDTV-Technical Editor for "Widescreen Review Magazine." On November 16, 1998 he launched the Internet distributed HDTV Magazine, which remains the only consumer publication devoted exclusively to high-definition television. In April of 2002 he co-founded with Tedson Meyers of Coudert Bros, the High-definition Television Association of America, which is presently based in Washington DC. Cripps is the president of this organization. Mr. Cripps is a charter member of the Academy of Digital Television Pioneers and honored by that organization with the DTV Press Leadership Award of 2002. He makes his home in Oregon.