Into The Future 900Mhz Wireless Technology
Marconi and Edison, electronics pioneers who are now legends, were bold enough to envision wireless devices that could deliver audio from remote sources to homes everywhere. Today, thanks to their successors, you can direct words and music to speakers and headphones within and around your home without wiring them to your electronic program source components. With 900 Megahertz (MHz) wireless stereo speakers and headphones from Advent, listeners can hear music faithfully reproduced from digital or analog sources, including CD, cassette and FM, or they can tune in to the audio portion of TV broadcasts in any room of a home. Wireless listening on patios, at poolside and elsewhere up to 300 feet away is possible as well, thanks to 900 MHz radio frequency (RF) technology (precise range varies with environmental conditions). Consumer products employing the technology became possible when, in June 1989, the Federal Communications Commission designated a band of frequencies stretching from 902 to 928 MHz for in-home radio frequency transmission. At the same time, the FCC imposed strict limitations on the strength of these signals to keep them from traveling far enough to disrupt commercial radio and TV broadcasts. Prior to that time, the only wireless audio-transmission equipment consumers were allowed to use relied on infrared (IR) technology, which is most commonly seen in remote controls. This imposed limitations, however, since IR beams travel in a straight line and can only convey signals between components within sight of one another. RF signals, including those in the 900 MHz range, eliminate this restriction. Because they pass through walls, ceilings and floors, even those that employ brick, concrete and steel, there are no barriers to in-range signal transmission. Recoton Corporation, Advent's parent, was quick to take advantage of the 1989 FCC ruling. Its engineers developed and soon introduced a first generation of 900 MHz products capable of relaying audio signals through the air rather than through wires. Recoton has consistently believed that 900 MHz wireless home entertainment products would prove increasingly important as more and more people discovered their considerable convenience. For that reason, the company has continued to invest in the technology. The fact that Recoton is a global leader in the development, manufacturing and marketing of consumer electronic accessories, loudspeakers and car audio products has proven crucial to this effort. Both the corporation's financial and technological resources - which include nearly 100 research and development engineers working at various locations around America, in Europe and the Far East - have contributed to its success Recoton Corporation is a global leader in the development, manufacturing and marketing of consumer electronic accessories, loudspeakers and car audio products. Recoton's more than 4,000 products feature highly functional accessories for audio, video, car audio, camcorder, multi-media/computer, home office, cellular and standard telephone, music and video game products and 900 MHz wireless technology headphones and speakers. They are sold under the AAMP, Ambico, Ampersand, AR/Acoustic Research, Discwasher, InterAct, Parsec, Peripheral, Performance, Recoton, Rembrandt, Ross, SoleControl, SoundQuest, and Stinger brand names. The Company also produces and markets audio components, high fidelity loudspeakers, home theater speakers, and car audio speakers and components which are sold under the Advent, AR/Acoustic Research, HECO, Jensen, MacAudio, Magnat, NHT (Now Hear This), Phase Linear, and Recoton brand names. For more information, contact Peter M. Lldau at 212 644 0220 or email: lldau@recoton.com.