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Enjoy this latest Wireless HDMI !

Cords usually are an eye sore. However thanks to wireless technology, your house is now looking very much less like an office. A few of the most effective clutter-busting gizmos ever conceived are the wireless phone, the wireless router, and the Bluetooth dongle. Wireless HDMI is yet another digital wonder - now you can easily hang up your sleek 52-inch LCD TV on the wall structure devoid of those awful HDMI cable lines protruding from the bottom.

Wireless HDMI will allow you to enjoy high-definition audio and video broadcasts in full 1080p without drilling holes and running cable connections between your TV and your HD DVD player, DVR, cable box, or game console. Wireless HDMI gadgets are superb for setups where your electronic digital equipment are located several feet apart -- saving you a whole lot of time installing and connecting all of them.

This is particulary beneficial when you have a setup that can't accommodate all your HD devices in just one place.

Here is how Wireless HDMI gets results. The device, which is typically a little black box, receives audio and video data from an HD source such as a Blu-ray player, and sends this high-definition broadcast to your HDTV or HD projector using ultra-wideband radio frequencies.

Still in its infancy, Wireless HDMI technology obviously experienced a few problems with early gadgets that generated volatile video signals and was constrained to short-range coverage. Plus without having an official Wireless HDMI standard in place, consumer electronic corporations have resorted to employing their own proprietary technology; the ASUS Wireless Display Connectivity, LG Wireless 1080p, Philips Wireless HDTV Link, and Sony Bravia Wireless Link are a few of the more well known versions.

Sooner or later the Wireless HDMI technology definitely will improve, and almost all devices that use HDMI wires will have wireless connectivity built in them. Some of the more recent units that have shown great promise are those from Gefen, particularly the EXT-WHDMI Wireless HDMI Extender.