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Wireless HDMI Soars Into Living with Belkin's FlyWire

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No matter how strong your cabling kung-fu might be, there's a pretty good chance that behind your home theater's assortment of receivers, set-top boxes, game consoles, and other electronic doodads sits a gnarly mess of wires. Most visitors never catch a glimpse of the clutter hidden behind your entertainment center, but you know it's there. Worse yet, you have to navigate through the wired jungle whenever you upgrade your A/V rack. You know that streaming Netflix player you're waiting to arrive from Roku? Get ready to wade through wires when it gets there.

Belkin believes it has a better way, and its FlyWire box looks poised to make cable clutter a thing of the past. Belkin's FlyWire HDMI box transmits both standard- and high-definition video anywhere in your home on the 5GHz band, and promises to penetrate through walls. And because FlyWire doesn't compress your video, Belkin claims its will even handle high definition gaming with aplomb. It even works with HDCP-compliant devices.

Look for FlyWire to spread its wings on retail shelves in October for $999 with IR backchannel capabilities, or $699 for an in-room solution sans IR.

Image Credit: Belkin

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avatarPrice

Yeah no kidding McB, the people who could pay to have this could just as well have all their components hidden and pay someone to run a single HDMI from the component room. Then use a boss Harmony Remote with RF to command everything,  then they would still have the performance guarantee of physical wire.  Bring the price down Belkin.

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avatarWAAAY too spendy

If it weren't so much I'd say it's a great by.  for 1k you can buy a nice new moniter or pay someone like me to run a few wires for you.  Cool idea though.  Hopefully the price drops

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