TZero manufactures chips for ultrawideband technology, the backbone
transmission system that is forecasted to act as a wireless replacement for USB.
The wireless HDMI system claims speeds of 500MBits/second and resistance to
common sources of interference such as microwave ovens and cordless telephones.
In addition, the standard is calling for a high level of reliability with "less
than one in one hundred million" packets having an error or being lost.
While TZero is providing their TZ7000 chipset, Analog Devices is providing their
JPEG2000 codec. Based on the popular JPEG image compression, JPEG2000 is able to
operate in both lossy and lossless mode - only the latter will be used to avoid
introducing undesirable artifacts into video. Encryption will also be used to
secure the transmissions, but specifications on the algorithm have not been made
available. The hardware will be fully HDCP compliant, so all existing HDMI
devices should function without error.