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The World’s Larges
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Alexander Wiese
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HQ in Munich, German
Dear Readers,
There’s an important reason why Smartphones, Tablets and Laptops Cables do not need to be in a home anymore. The technology to
are so popular these days and this reason is often overlooked: all carry all of the signals wirelessly already exists and the popularity of
of these devices can be used with hardly any need for cables. You all the Smartphones (keyword iPhone, iPad) proves that users don’t
have to connect them to recharge the battery but otherwise they want to fight anymore with cables and plugs. The devices should
are wireless products. Wireless basically means no local connection switch between each other and link to each other by themselves.
required; you can take your Tablet with you wherever you go and
watch videos or TV. And this brings us to another subject: the wireless connection of
audio and video also falls under the heading of TELE-audiovision.
What does this have to do with digital TV receivers? It’s exactly the And that’s exactly why we changed the title of this magazine from
opposite of wireless: they are devices that have to be connected TELE-satellite to TELE-audiovision.
with every conceivable cable and because of this they are fixed in
place wherever they’re set up and have to stay there. And this is no If you recall, the new title is a throwback to the beginning when this
longer a modern way to do things. We live in a wireless age and as magazine was founded in 1981: back then it was also called TELE-
TV watchers we therefore have come to expect our receivers to be audiovision; only later on was the name changed to TELE-satellite.
wireless as well. Back then TELE referred to the long-distance reception of audio
(radio) and video (TV). Long-distance reception is always wireless
But this changeover is not instantaneous. A digital TV receiver and in this way the TELE in TELE-audiovision can be interpreted in
requires a connection to an antenna, whether it’s a satellite dish, a a new way: it’s not only wireless audio and video reception over
terrestrial antenna or a connection to a cable network. And then the long distances, but now also over very short distances within the
TV has to be connected to the receiver and let’s not forget the hard confines of your own home.
drive so that programs can be recorded and of course the Internet
connection for web-based TV. And what about the power plug? The future is wireless.
Those are a lot of cables; how are they supposed to be eliminated?
Technical solutions to eliminate some of the cables already exist. In
this issue we are introducing a product that can wirelessly transmit
HDMI signals. This eliminates one cable and permits TV reception
in your home on multiple TVs or tablets instead of only that one TV
in the living room. Further technical developments can only mean
that the remaining cables can also be eliminated such that only the
power cable is left (and this could also be replaced with wireless Alexander Wiese
battery charging stations). Editor-in-Chief TELE-audiovision International
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Alexander Wiese, alex@tavmag.com
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