Wireless Home Theater

Wires and cables are necessary evil when it comes to all sort of audio and home theater systems. Although they are still necessary for providing enough power some home theater systems are already come very close to something that can be named as wireless home theater.

Until recently a term "wireless home theater" usually means a home theater kit where (usually) the rear speakers communicate via 2.4 GHz frequency with an amplifier. This would avoid the unwanted task of wiring the rear speakers with an amplifier. So you end up with "wirefull" home theater with a distant speakers (still connected to each other and conventionally powered'some of them have a battery with a limited power). Wireless thing means that speakers aren't connected to the amplifier with a wire but via radio frequency resulting in a modest to poor performance. Anybody knows that with wireless phone you are still able to talk but with a wired one the sound is far better. But technology still hasn't spoken its last wordâ€¦.

So wireless home theater in above story is an ordinary one with wireless speakers. Although that might work for some room configuration (when you want to have your rear speakers behind you) it is not the real wireless home theater.

Real Wireless Home Theater

So it was not unexpected that home theater designers came to idea to have truly wireless home theater. Until CES 2008 I never had herd or see truly working wireless home theater. And then came Neosonik Wireless Home Theater. They advertise this product as 100% wireless and 100% digital. This truly wireless home theater still has wires but they are reduced on power cords only. How it works you might ask? Well, take a look at technical data:

System Diagram
Sources like HDTV, HD-DVD or CD plug into Wireless A/V Controller that streams uncompressed, perfectly synchronized Audio directly to Digital Wireless Loudspeakers. High Definition Video is simultaneously transmitted to a Wireless HD Video Receiver connected to a TV set or Projector via HDMI.

WIRELESS A/V CONTROLLER
Receives inputs from Digital and Analog source components and transmits perfectly synchronized signals to TV set and Digital Wireless Loudspeakers.

WIRELESS HD VIDEO RECEIVER
Attaches to TV or Projector via HDMI and receives 1080p Digital Video wireless transmission.

DIGITAL WIRELESS LOUDSPEAKERS
Speakers receive wireless transmission of uncompressed Digital Audio signal. All loudspeaker control is managed by DSP (Digital Signal Processing) that feeds a separate digital amplifier for each woofer and tweeter.

Neosonic Wireless Home Theater

This real outstanding wireless home theater system operates in the same 5Ghz license-free spectrum as 802.11a. They advertise it to be equal or better then conventional wired systems in terms of A/V performance. With a possibility of streaming up to 60Mbps of synchronous data it can handle all of the latest HD-Video and sound formats easily. This wireless home theater is using H.264 transport video format - the most advanced video format available today.
Distance and walls were main obstacles for all wireless systems. Well this one should have no prob within 200 feet and several walls according to their technical data. And it would not interfere with other wireless devices.
Well start counting your's savings -this wireless home theater doesn't come with a discount...