For those of you yearning for a little more oomph in your wireless HD options, Hisense and Metalink have heard (and answered) the call. The two firms are collaborating to unveil solutions to HD streaming that "enable the wireless transmission of multiple HDTV streams from centrally-located DTVs, PVRs and STBs to any room in the house." Based around Metalink's WLANPlus chipset, devices sporting the newfangled technology will be capable of supporting up to 300Mbps transmission speeds using both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz frequency bands; moreover, Metalink claims that this creation offers "more than twice the reach of competing 802.11n solutions" due to its implementation of a Maximum Likelihood (ML) decoder combined with advanced Forward Error Correction (FEC) scheme and the use of Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) technology. A lot of jargon, we know, but cramming chipsets that can handle a bevy of HD streams on a vanilla 802.11n network into gateways and access points makes perfect sense to us.

We certainly wish we had some accompanying images to give you with Sammy's new SMT-H6155, because it actually sounds vaguely interesting. Quietly debuted at CeBIT amidst their other gear, the STB uses 802.11n to shoot high def video around the house -- as so many forthcoming gadgets are expected to. We'll keep an eye on this one for ya.

Samsung has just released information about its 2007 lineup of HDTVs, including new LCDs, DLPs, plasmas and even CRTs. There's too much high contrast, HDMI 1.3-equipped, Deep Color enabled for one page, so continue on for pictures and detailed specs, or check out our live coverage of the press conference.

Okay, so we had a sneaking suspicion that this whole "uncompressed streaming of high definition video sans wires" was a bit too good to come true at CES 2006, but once again AMIMON is promising to showcase its WHDI (wireless high definition interface) at next week's Vegas extravaganza. Providing a little backbone to the claim is Sanyo, which is slated to showcase the "world's first wireless HD projector" using AMIMON's technology. The demo will utilize a yet-to-be-named Sanyo PJ and will reportedly beam unadulterated imagery via an "802.11a/n RFIC chipset" from an HD DVD player without the help of wires, and the quality should look exactly the same as if you were using a DVI / HDMI cable. Current developer platforms allow connections from any device outputting in HDMI, component, S-Video, composite, or VGA, and WDHI operates in a "5GHz unlicensed band" which enables video streaming "of up to 3Gbps" from 100 feet away. Sure, even today this still sounds mildly unbelievable, but if both firms keep their word, we'll be seeing just how truthful these bold claims are in a matter of days.

Chip producer Metalink and television manufacturer Haier have demonstrated sending multiple high-definition streams wirelessly over 802.11n at SINOCES, the Asian Consumer Electronics Show winding down today in China. While broadcasting HD over the air is nothing new, they have integrated the chipset directly into the TV, and claim to be the first to send multiple HD streams to sets around your house simultaneously. Of course, there is nothing in the press release to expand on these statements or the details of the test, and I suspect they were simply sending the same stream to all the HDTVs, and not different streams to different sets, which is what most people would want in a whole–house distribution network.

The question remains, is it worth it for the hardware manufacturers of set-top boxes, DVRs, television sets to buy n–based chipsets for their equipment, or should we wait for something more - say, WiMax or ultra wideband?