Interesting Article from Toms Hardware

["Weir, John" <john.weir@xxxxxxx>]

http://www.tomshardware.com/technews/index.html

Intersil and Sharp Push Wireless TVs

If you have a satellite dish for your TV reception or even a DVD
player, it would be nice if you could beam the video signal all over your
home from a single box. Well, that's what Intersil and Sharp have been
working on. Sharp is putting Intersil's PRISM WLAN chipsets in its new
AN-SS700 audio/visual digital transmission system, which allows wireless
television viewing throughout the home as long as an electrical outlet is
available. PRISM chipsets deliver wireless Ethernet networking in
compliance
with the Wi-Fi (IEEE's 802.11b) standard (11 Mbps). AN-SS700 is a
completely
digital wireless system that operates in the 2.4 GHz band and lets Sharp's
AV distribute television reception even to rooms that are blocked by walls
or out of the line-of-sight of the unit. The AN-SS700 includes a
transmitter
and receiver each measuring approximately 5.83" (width) by 3.11"
(height) by
1.54" (depth). Using PRISM WLAN technology, Sharp's MAC technology and
an
MPEG2 encoder/decoder to handle compressed audio and video, and the
AN-SS700
transmitter can be connected to a VCR, DVD player or satellite tuner by
composite video signal. The video pictures received by the AN-SS700 are
wirelessly transmitted as digital signals so that they can be viewed
remotely on LCD TVs connected to the receiver unit. A wireless remote
control lets you to operate the transmitter and typical AV equipment
attached to the transmitter. The downfall of course, you have to have a
digital TV to use the system, and it looks like it's only compatible with
Sharp LCD TVs. Or at least that's the way the companies make it sound.


Obviously you might not want a Sharp Digital TV ....

J