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You say you’d love to have one of those cool, space-age looking minimalist cabinets for your flat screen TV, but there’s no place to hide the ugly cables?

The solution is called Wireless HD.  It’s on the drawing board as four of the world’s biggest TV manufacturers are working out a standard for wireless HDTV connectivity.  In other words, no hookup would be required between your monitor, your cable box, your TiVo box, camcorder, game console, DVD player, etc. 

Video and audio signals would be handled, and it would all happen within the unlicensed 60 GHz spectrum.  The signals would not be strong enough to penetrate walls.  The one-standard-fits-all revolution could also bring about a new generation of universal remote controls.

Getting it from the drawing board to your living room may not be so easy.  Signals in this frequency range are very iffy.  If the system isn’t designed properly, you could interfere with the signal just by walking across the room.  And there are other cable replacement strategies on other drawing boards that might make more sense.

[via PC Advisor]