Samsung announces wireless HDMI option for HDTVs
Samsung’s HDTV lineup just got a whole lot more appealing. The company has announced a new add-on option to some of their higher-end HDTVs that will bring wireless HDMI to your living room. The option, which should run about $800 when it becomes available, will be built in the the back of the units, allowing you to connect to a number of other Wireless HDMI-equipped components. $800 is rather steep, but when you’re dropping $4,000 on a 46-inch Sharp X-Series TV, it starts to look a little less daunting. Wireless HDMI provides 1080p picture quality, and is able to broadcast through walls and furniture. Imagine a central component system, including a Cable Box and Blu-Ray Player, all broadcasting to every TV in your house. Sounds pretty great to us and we’ve been waiting for this for a long time. The option will initially be available to Japanese customers only, with a US offering following in hot pursuit. Hurry up, please!
No to be a nudge, but I’d still have to open the wall up to bury power, optical sound wire, and my wireless Senheisser headset wire.
(keep the kids sleeping)
But it’s a step forward, and pretty swift.
Pretty soon we’ll have a truly wireless enviornment, with everything cooperating.
Anyone gonna cry a tear if Monster Cable goes under?
Any idea when something like this will be an external device that can be plugged into the HDMI port on the back of the TV?
Very nice – I will def be on this bandwagon. So long to those Cable companies charging for those extra set-top boxes…
This would totally be a win for me… I just have a single coax running to the flat panel on the wall in my kitchen. It’d be nice to replace it with something that could get a signal “beamed” from my family room, without having to run new wires.
What is the range? I don’t see it being terribly useful for something like and LCD, plasma or DLP tv. However, if it were available for home theater projectors this would be a massive selling point.