Belkin FlyWire Beams Hi-Def Video
Written by admin on July 14th, 2008 in gadgets.
Belkin aims to do away with your infestation of set-top-boxes with yet another set top-box. The FlyWire is a $1000 video transmitter which will send hi-definition video (up to 1080p) around your home. You hook up your Blu-ray player, games console or media center to the main FlyWire transmitter and it will send the uncompressed signals to a receiver plugged into the HDMI port of a TV or monitor. Thus, you can hide the tower of tech away in a cupboard or den and enjoy clutter-free movies or gaming.
The FlyWire works on the 5GHz band, so it should remain free of the microwave oven and cordless phone interference which plagues older Wi-Fi setups. It is also HDCP compliant, so you can use it with the paranoid DRM solutions out there. And, ironically for something designed to be hidden from view, it looks gorgeous — a sleek piano black box. Although Belkin did succumb to the temptation to include sleep-ruining blue LEDs.
Product page [Belkin via Uncrate]
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