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CES: Belkin shows off Wireless HD box

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Written by Simon Toat at the CES, Las Vegas   
Thursday, 10 January 2008

If you was here at the show last year, you would have heard Belkin promising that it would have a wireless HD device to show us in time for this year's show. Well it has made good on its word and lo and behold this box can fling uncompressed 1080p images around the ether like nobody's business. 

Not out to buy until this summer, the Belkin FlyWire will set you back $599 (not cheap) but does sport six inputs from various sources, including high-definition. IT sends signals over the 5GHz range, so if you have a bog-standard wireless router there shouldn't be any interference in signals.

The basic set-up is this - you connect your Blu-Ray player or PS3 to the box and then plug in a receiver into your HD TV HDMI port (so you don't have to go out and buy yet another TV!) There are also S-Video, composite and scart inputs as well for standard definition telly. The only drawback to all of this is that the box doesn't appear to upscale SD into HD.

Belkin claims that the device will work flawlessly up to fifty feet and even through walls. When we get a review box to test we shall verify these claims.

The FlyWire should hits these shores in the summer and cost around £300, although that figure is subject to change.

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CES Coverage:

CES: LaCie launches fast laptop hard drives
CES: Sling Media launches SlingCatcher and SlingPlayer 2.0
CES: Intempo lifts lid on portable internet/FM radio
SanDisk passes the memory test
Panasonic proves (TV) size does matter
Dell gets sexy with new Crystal display
LG Philips to launch world's largest multi-touch screens 

 

 

 
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