LG Korea Announces Their First Wireless Full HD LCD TV

Akihabara News ^ | 05/06/09

[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…).

[TigerLikesRooster]

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[Dallas59]

No more HDMI cable???

[mylife]

Girl not included?

[catbertz]

No wires to the tv, except power. All wiring goes to the transmitter, which sends signal to tv automagically.

Panasonic has one releasing this summer as well.

[bigbob]

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.

[TigerLikesRooster]

To be accurate, it will remove all those spaghetti cables connecting various parts of the appliance to the outlet. All you can have is short cables next to power outlet.

It won't do away with cables 100%. However, it nearly solves the holy nuisance of dealing with several cables tangled together crossing rooms.

[dr_who]

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.

[dr_who]

Yeah, the girl is more interesting than the television.

[dr_who]

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.

[mylife]

The wireless bit is cool

[TigerLikesRooster]

This is more like a wireless display. The connection to the HD display is wireless. The rest can be in one corner of the room. Preferably with all compatible hardware/sofware interface, but at least they can be stacked up in one place right next to power outlet.

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.

[mylife]

So, if you have to run wires, what is the point?

[buccaneer81]

No wires to the tv, except power. All wiring goes to the transmitter, which sends signal to tv automagically.

Cable, satellite input too?

[this_ol_patriot]

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.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Don't worry. They will get there. LG’s rival Samsung took a lead in LED. LG is not all that happy about it. Apparently LG want to bring another product to counter it.

[fr_freak]

ping

[neverdem]

thanks, bfl

[dr_who]

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.

[HiTech RedNeck]

A good technical compromise might be one single Ethernet-like cable (T100 or T1000)