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Pulse (News - Alert)-LINK Inc., the Ultra Wideband (UWB) semiconductor provider, has announced that its CWave HDMI-Over-Coax and Wireless HDMI production ready reference designs are now available for CE device manufacturers.

 

Announcing the availability of its latest solutions, the company said that the new solutions enable real-time high definition audio and video distribution throughout the home with a guaranteed Quality-of-Service (QoS).

 

According to the company, the CWave UWB HDMI-Over-Coax and Wireless HDMI transmit and receive units are small form factor, production ready reference designs. Pulse-LINK officials pointed that CWave HDMI products offer real-time visually lossless wired and wireless streaming of high quality audio and video content between entertainment source devices and HDTV displays. They explained that video data is encoded using the JPEG2000 video codec, the same codec used by movie theaters for “Digital Cinema.”

 

Highlighting that HDMI is the preferred direct link between HDTVs and digital sources such as Blu-ray and HD DVD players, video game consoles, and set-top boxes used by cable, satellite and IPTV gateways, John Santhoff, founder and CTO of Pulse~LINK, noted in a press statement, “Streaming HD content around the home presents the greatest technical challenges for home networking and exposes bandwidth and Quality-of-Service limitations.”

 

He added that CWave provides a ‘No New Wires’ solution, which extends the reach of HDMI from room-to-room over existing coax cabling and also wirelessly connects devices within each room using the same chip.

 

Santhoff pointed out that HDMI has long been recognized for its high quality transport and content protection mechanisms, but it is limited to single room fixed point-to-point applications. In comparison, he said that his company’s CWave UWB HDMI-Over-Coax innovation extends the reach over existing coax cabling, including splitters, “which enables consumers to access high-bandwidth HD content from entertainment source devices in one room and display it in any other room in the house.”

 

CWave UWB Wireless HDMI solution is expected to reduce the “rat’s nest” of connector wires behind entertainment systems, enabling clean installation of wall-mounted flat-panel displays anywhere in the room.

 

“The HDMI extender enables longer-range, secure wireless connectivity between the HDTV display and multiple entertainment source devices such as video game consoles, DVRs, Blu-ray DVD and HD DVD players,” added Santhoff.

 

 

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