ASUS news from CeBIT? Say it ain’t so! Just hours after the company introduced two new “Green” LCDs, we stopped by to see what all the fuss was about. What we found were two rather vanilla looking LCDs (they’re in the gallery below, we promise) sitting beside something entirely more interesting: a Wireless LCD prototype. An ASUS rep informed us that the model shown was utilizing the currently-in-limbo ultra-wideband (UWB) standard, and he affirmed that the monitor didn’t have a model name nor an estimated ship date or price; it was simply on hand to prove that wireless LCDs were possible and that they’re on the way. He noted that ASUS was looking into other wireless protocols — namely wireless HD and WHDI — and that it was “waiting things out” before making a final decision on what variation to use. Our take? We suspect it’s both testing for best compatibility / range and waiting to see if UWB will remain viable in the coming months, which likely means no shipping product for quite some time. For what it’s worth, the on-hand demo was stellar, with no visible lag, glitches or dropped frames to speak of.
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