CES: Westinghouse Unveils World's First Wireless HDTV

January 03, 2008

Westinghouse Digital Electronics has wasted no time with their CES announcements by pre-announcing the world's first fully integrated wireless HDTV will be on display at the show. That's right; the only wire required with this set is the one delivering power.

The set features Pulse~LINK’s integrated CWave UWB Wireless HDMI technology that encodes video and audio using the JPEG2000 video codec, the same codec used by movie theaters for "Digital Cinema." It has been designed to provide the same lossless quality you'd receive via a hardwired HDMI connection, only without pesky cables.

"This is an eye opener. People are going to deeply desire this Westinghouse Digital Wireless HDMI HDTV in their living room as soon as they see it at CES," states Bruce Watkins, Pulse~LINK President and Chief Operating Officer. "We’ve been leading the technical pursuit of this for several years. Pulse~LINK has publicly demonstrated various wireless HDTV radio prototypes for some time, but nothing compares to the real thing when you finally see it. Actually watching this gorgeous Westinghouse High Definition television – with nothing coming out of the TV accept the power cord and a vibrant high definition image – is an experience beyond comparison with anything that has come prior to now. This really changes everything."

The Westinghouse Digital Wireless HDMI HDTV is scheduled to first appear on the market in Q2 2008, strictly for B2B digital signage usage. A timetable has not been announced for when it will be available for residential use.

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