Here's a new palm-sized transceiver from NEC with a throughput of about 1Gbps. This allows for uncompressed HDTV signals.

Nippon Electric Corporation (NEC) has announced they have developed a small transmitter capable of using a new video transmission technology using the 60GHz band.

Both video and stereo audio signal are digitized into a 1Gbps signal, which are then transmitted using the 60GHz band through "ASK Modulation System," also used o­n optical fiber.

When compared to the existing wireless transmission technologies of LAN and UWB using the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands, by being able to use a wide band, this new system is strong against interference. Also, HDTV video can be transmitted wirelessly without compression, so this would also be good for wall-hanging televisions.

The transceiver is a ceramic module measuring 70 x 50 x 15mm. By using a diversity system that requires two transceivers for o­ne television, this also allows for multiple signals to be spread throughout the home as there is no interception.




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http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/docs/20050401/nec.htm

Press Release:
http://www.nec.co.jp/press/ja/0504/0103.html