Panasonic Demonstrates Uncompressed Full-HD Video Wireless Streaming

Everything seems to be “wireless” nowadays, including here some specific areas that were “wired” by tradition, as for example HD content streaming. We're all quite used to HDMI cables, but it seems that the Japanese company Panasonic is quite keen on eliminating even those, since it has just demonstrated, at the Ceated show, a WirelessHD-enabled setup that allows it to stream HD content over nothing but thin air.

Thus, as Hiroki Yomogida reports for Nikkei Electronics (TechOn), the company has used a setup formed out of a tuner equipped with a WirelessHD transmitting module, a home theater system and a Blu-ray Disc recorder in order to transmit uncompressed 1080p HDTV content stored on a Blu-ray disc by using 60GHz band milliwave. The maximum data transmission speed reached by this prototype system was of around 4Gbps. Apparently, this is not the first show where Panasonic demonstrates this highly-anticipated new technology. It seems that the company also put on display a similar setup (if not the exact same one) at this year's IFA show in Berlin. However, it's actually the first time such a system is showcased on the company's own home turf, in Japan.

As the journalist from TechOn, who had the chance to take a closer look at this prototype module's inner-components, informs us, the device from Panasonic incorporates a dedicated network processor and an RF transceiver (installed directly on the device's mobo), coupled with several very small antenna elements arranged in a grid pattern, which help create an adaptive beamforming pattern.

Unfortunately, there's no telling just how much a wireless HD setup will cost, but we'll probably find this specific detail out at some point over the course of 2009, since Panasonic's representatives have once again stated their commitment of rolling out the first commercially-available product from this family next year.

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