Whats driving TVs and other consumer electronic products to go wireless?
The convenience of wireless has become very familiar to most consumers via handheld phones, mobile phones, Wi-Fi networking, etc. This benefit can be applied now to home multimedia networks with the TV as the entry point. For years, there’s been a trend in the TV world toward thin, flat-screen displays. A few years ago, when a plasma TV weighed 250 pounds and was four or five inches thick, it was really challenging to hang that TV on the wall. But now, modern ultra-slim TVs are less than one inch thick and weigh only 40 – 50 pounds. It’s at the point where it’s just like hanging a picture on a wall – put a few hooks up, hang it and you’re done. The problem is, now you’ve got this beautiful TV hanging up above the fireplace and all of these ugly wires dangling over the mantle. We need some way to get rid of the need for those wires and consumers are looking for something easier and more aesthetically pleasing than tearing up the wall to route cables. Now that we have this large bandwidt
