
Mounting a big-screen television above a fireplace might be America’s favorite place for an HDTV. It’s also the worst.
Looking up four or five hours nightly invites a perpetually cranky, stiff neck. An active fireplace’s heat and random smoke shorten the television’s life too.
If that won’t stop you, what about all the wires? How is it possible to mount a television cleanly on a wall without a hideous tangle of wires or bludgeoning Sheetrock to find a hidden path?
The Enabler has an idea: the DVDO Air, a wireless HDMI connection that sends high-definition video (including 3-D) and up to 7.1 channels of sound (the point-one represents the subwoofer) across a room. With a 30-foot range, the DVDO Air is a barely visible link between a cable box, Blu-ray player or entire home theater and a freshly mounted HDTV.