(iTers News) -  As an increasing number of TVs are now the Internet-capable, home network and   entertainment markets are emerging as the most-prized segment where a spate of short-range wired and wireless technologies are competing headlong to reign supreme.

Valens Semiconductor Ltd. is heavily betting on the prospect, aiming to make its own HDBaseT technology a next generation of digital connectivity standard that connects and even controls all video source and display devices in living rooms to move around data-heavy full-HD video contents.

Instrumental in delivering on this ambition is the ability of the HDBase technology that makes up for what both of the two other competing short-range communications technologies –wireless HD and HDMI -are each lacking

“You can say this (HDBaseT) is all-in-one solution. Let’s take for example TV manufacturers, with this (HDBaseT technology), they can get all the connects including even power using one single cable. You can get videos, audios, Ethernet connectivity, power, and control. That’s 5 play convergences over 100 meters of LAN cable. If you compare, there is no other approach in the market.  That’s the value,” said Micha Risling, vice president with Valens Semiconductor.

Valens Semiconductor is an Israel-based fabless chipmaker that fabricates HDBaseT-compliant chipsets.

According to him, HDBaseT technology is an in-house wired communications technology that can send back and force uncompressed full HD audio and video signals among TVs, DVD players, game consoles and other home entertainment devices, the same as existing HDMI and wireless HD technologies are doing.

What make differences from them, however, is that the HDBaseT technology can carry   electricity power, Ethernet connectivity, and even RS232 and Infrared control simultaneously in what’s called as 5 play convergence.

Especially when compared with existing HDMI, it can stand out in carrying all of those 5 elements over a long stretch of 100 meter cheap LAN cable, while HDMI 1.4 can do it just only over a few meters of distances. Both of the two technologies can send data at the same speed of 10.2 Gbps, gigabit per second.

The HDBaseT technology also outperforms wireless HD technology in its ability to deliver  full HD 1080p @60Hz @48bit 4K x 2K pixels, and even 3D, while wireless HD is struggling to enhance its capability, recently releasing a next technology roadmap to support 3D and 4K pixels.

“Wireless HD technology is today dealing with 1080p 60Hz 24 bit pixels, but, the market is already looking into 3D, 2k 4k pixels. There are huge gaps. T The problem with wireless HD is the market is moving too fast. But, they can’t meet that. That’s what we are trying to fill,“ added Micha Risling.

Yet, he said that the HDBaseT technology is not competing with HDMI, but co-existing, or complementing each other, because its chipsets contain HDMI silicon elements to get compatible with HDNI-built in devices.

Valens Semiconductor is now fabricating two types of chipsets for receivers and transmitters, which can be built into a variety of video source and display devices like game consoles, TVs, PCs, and DVD players to move back and forth full HD videos.

Here’s an example how those source and display devices, which incorporate both of Valens’ chipsets, talk together with each other on a stretch of LAN cables to send back and forth video using HDBaseT technology.

Once connected around an Internet-capable TV in the living rooms, for example, users can choose full HD videos on their PCs, and send them without compression to play on TVs using HDBaseT  technology.

What’s more interesting, users can get electricity power of up to 30 watts from TVs, which is hooked on electricity power cord to turn on their PCs.

On top of that, users also can get onto Web pages to download full-HD movies all the way through the Internet-connected TVs back to PCs to play them on PCs, or TVs, even if PCs are not connected to the Internet. That’s because the HDBaseT technology can deliver Ethernet connectivity.

As the HDBaseT technology can deal RSS 232 and infrared control signals, too, users can choose movies on their PCs and send them together with control signals to get them played on a standalone dumb monitor, which are with no video graphics processor, by remotely controlling it from their PC keyboards.

To ensure full compatibility with existing TV and PCs, which come with no HDBaseT receiver and transmitter chips, Valens is selling an array of HDBaseT-enabled dongle devices, which can be plugged into those source and display devices.

What Valens Semiconductor is now working on its next roadmap is to define a conceptual scheme where a multiple of video source and display devices are connected and talk together with each other through HDBaseT switch to send back and forth 5 play convergences among themselves.

“This is a HDBaseT switch that has multiple source device and multiple display devices connected, you send 5 play elements to each source and display device in what’ called as point-to-point connection, “ explained he. “For example, each device can get automatically access to the Internet, because we deliver Ethernet signal, and all the control signals can go from each source device to each display device and vice versa. Video and audio can go and power, too.”

 According to him, Valens is working together with HDBaseT alliance teams to exactly define this concept. And, the company is now working on technological specifications to make sure that it will make this concept a real product, especially on specifications for control element.  On the other hand, it is also mapping out a roadmap to support DLNA functions.

“Once delivered on, this concept will change the way people is using multimedia,” said Micha.

 And, then, HDBaseT technology will be a hub technology of home entertainment market.