Posted on 05/06/2009 8:17:10 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
LG Korea Announces Their First Wireless Full HD LCD TV
Behold LG's LH 80 Series LCD TVs (available in 42”, 47” and 55”) released this morning and available for purchase in Korea featuring LG's first Full HD wireless technology.
As you may have already guessed, the LCD panel shows video wirelessly thanks to a newly developed “Media Box” that also includes the LCD TV tuner, HDMI HUB… and a USB port to access JPEG and DIVX video stored on a USB HDD or thumb key.
If you happen to live in Korea and are interested in the 55” model, expect something around €2990 for this little baby ₩ 5,100,000 (girl not included…).
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No more HDMI cable???
Panasonic has one releasing this summer as well.
So, what sort of AC power outlet do I not have to plug this “wireless” marvel into?
Call it what it is. It ain’t wireless.
It won't do away with cables 100%. However, it nearly solves the holy nuisance of dealing with several cables tangled together crossing rooms.
Woot. A large format monitor with a PC inside of it. I think the early problems with a lot of these newer A/V “appliances” is going to be making full use of what the hardware would allow you to do if only the manufacturer’s software would permit you to do it. A fully digital, “plug and play” standard for easily connecting up your home theatre/stereo to your tv/ps3/dvd/roku/tivo/cable modem is what’s needed, but I think these manufacturers are too obsessed with DRM and controlling the market to deliver on new features that are really useful.
Yeah, the girl is more interesting than the television.
Great ...if you NAS/printer/DVD player/PS3/tivo/etc all have the same interface and software to make everything work together. Don’t count on that happening.
The wireless bit is cool
I agree that all compatible interface is a challenging problem not because of technological hurdle but because of nasty high-stake turf war on dominating technical standard.
So, if you have to run wires, what is the point?
Cable, satellite input too?
Why LCD, I saw LED panels last weekend and it blows LCD out of the water. I also couldn’t believe how thin they were.
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thanks, bfl
I don’t think a turf war is even needed. These manufacturers need to embrace standards that already exist without “extending” them in dubious ways.
A good technical compromise might be one single Ethernet-like cable (T100 or T1000)
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Doesn’t do anything when most of the cable companies require set-top boxes to feed the video, no matter how expensive or exotic a TV tuner you have.
Until the cable companies wake up and design their systems to take advantage of the capabilities of ATSC tuners, stuff like this wireless are meaningless. Like where do you put the set-top box if you buy one of these wireless TVs? Correcto! - right next to the TV. So much for wireless.
Not quite. The manufacturer basically split the TV into two parts -a monitor which just needs power cable, and a tuner box which contains all of the input connections. The tuner box and monitor are linked wirelessly. The box could be located anywhere in the room, like in a stereo cabinet. Whatever you hook up to the “TV”, like your set-top box for cable or satellite would go next to the transmitter box - not the monitor.
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