Wireless High Definition TV Using UWB Technology Debuts

• Posted: Sunday, November 05, 2006
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• Author: pradhana
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• Filed under: Miscellaneous

Focus Enhancements, Inc. announced completion of a tour of Asia demonstrating Ultra Wideband (UWB) streaming video during the week of October 23rd.

Video streaming at distances exceeding 10 meters and, in several cases, through walls, was shown to a variety of engineers and product managers from several companies in Taiwan, Korea and Japan.

The demonstrations were run using commercially available TALARIA UWB evaluation hardware. Several experiments were run, including transmitting video from room-to-room through a concrete wall and passing the signal through more than a dozen observers standing in between the transceiver pairs.

“Our performance was very impressive to the audiences, with several observers mentioning that this was the best UWB performance they had seen to date,” said Tom Hamilton, executive vice president and general manger of Focus Enhancements’ semiconductor group. “The performance in Asia was consistent with the performance we have seen in our offices in Hillsboro, where we have been able to successfully transmit in excess of 30 meters in line-of-sight demonstrations,” Hamilton continued.

“In almost all cases the packet error rates, (a measure of wireless signal integrity), for transmission were much less than 10 percent and in many cases less than one percent, even with people standing in the path of the radios,” said Valerio Filauro, product marketing manager for the semiconductor group. One product manager in Taiwan stated, “I didn’t believe UWB could go from room to room until I saw it myself,” commenting on an experiment sending HD video from a conference room into an adjacent closed room, through the concrete structure with ceramic tiles on the wall.

“Many of the customers we visited were current customers with whom we have existing relationships with because of our ongoing TV encoder business,” said Mark Zadeh, vice president of sales for the semiconductor group. Zadeh went on to say, “UWB is bringing more technology options to our existing customer base and this helps us expand our relationships with customers throughout Asia.”

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