Netgear chose CeBIT today to launch the HD Home Theater Kit. Yes, we know CeBIT’s show floor doesn’t open up until tomorrow, but who waits for the floor to open these days.
The High-performance Wireless-N HD Home Theater Kit is a bundle of two High-Performance Wireless-N HD Home Theater Adapters.
It combines 4×4 multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO), real-time spectrum analysis, and dynamic digital beamforming, besides using low-interference 5 GHz frequency band to deliver highest fidelity Blu-ray HD quality audio/video streams over wireless to every room in the home.
The system is “carrier-grade” and can reliably stream multiple 1080p videos at once within range.
Features
- Creates a high-performance wireless network for streaming multiple Blue-ray quality HD video/audio
- Adds on to any existing Wi-Fi router or gateway -” No need to configure or replace current home network
- Plug-and-play setup -” power-up, connect and work automatically
- Single-touch push button with Wi-Fi Protected Setupâ„¢ to connect additional Adapters
- Supports multicast point-to-multipoint HD video streaming
- Provides visual feedback on the highest bandwidth HD stream that can be streamed
- Automatically detects and configures as an access point or bridge depending on connection
Applications
- For reliably streaming Multiple HD audio/video throughout the home wirelessly, through multiple walls
- Uses advanced real-time video reliability techniques to deliver jitter-free HD Video streaming with minimal packet loss
- Ideal to work with Blue-ray DVD players, Internet TVs, gaming consoles, TiVo HD, Slingbox, digital IPTV set-top boxes, NETGEAR’s Digital Entertainer products, Apple TV, and more
The HD Home Theater Kit doesn’t ship until the summer and will get pricing as well as a specific release date closer to that point.
