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My dad's television has wireless headphones as an accessory. Presumably it was created to allow someone to listen to the TV while the rest of the room enjoys silence. I'm pretty sure it uses IR.
RF are OK -- I've owned a pair and they were all static and shit. I now own the Pioneer TRE-D800 infrared headphones with dolby 5.1 decoding. They fucking rock.