Wireless video streaming is most likely the future of television broadcasts, as more and more people switch to viewing content on the Internet rather than classic TV stations. For this reason, quite a serious number of companies are actively involved in the development of such video transport solutions, including Sigma Designs, which has just unveiled at this year's CES the NeoVue wireless video transmitter/receiver platform.

The platform has been specifically designed to wirelessly transport audio/video (AV) and texts from notebooks or netbooks and display them in rich 1080p on an HDTV. In addition, NeoVue supports the VGA projector standard to allow wireless display collaboration in meetings.

The NeoVue platform includes both a transmitter with a USB dongle, based on Sigma's Coair wireless chipset, and a receiver that connects to an HDTV via an HDMI connector or to a projector via VGA connector. The transmitter captures the display and audio of the multimedia being displayed, encodes the media and sends it to the NeoVue receiver wirelessly to display in full 1080p on an HDTV or projection display. NeoVue uses standards based encoding (H.264/MPEG2) over standards based wireless link (ECMA-368 and ECMA-369 ISO recognized standard) with IP-based communication.

"As the notebook and netbook market continues to grow, along with the popularity of over-the-top content and internet applications, the consumer desire for an affordable solution that can transfer high definition quality content from a small display to an HDTV or HD projector grows right along with it," said Hung Nguyen, general manager and vice president of Connected Home Technologies division at Sigma Designs. "Sigma's NeoVue platform addresses this emerging market and enables consumers to enjoy their content on a TV with 1080p full HD without any wires in between and provides them the best-in-class wireless display-to-display technology."

Of course, as we mention in the case of most platform-related articles, we're looking forward to seeing the first products based on this design make their way onto the market, especially since, after all, we live in an increasingly wireless world, were streaming is becoming more and more important.


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