Matt
Gone playing Dragon Age Origins
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This would be great for alleviating the rat's nest of wires around almost all electronic devices ... I wonder if the range would be great enough to replace WiFi as the streaming transport from a PC to a media center extender?
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SkyBlue
join:2007-03-31
| said by Matt  :This would be great for alleviating the rat's nest of wires around almost all electronic devices ... I wonder if the range would be great enough to replace WiFi as the streaming transport from a PC to a media center extender? There is items out there that use wireless technology to your home thearter already. You just have to search for them.
My fear is your going to have so many wireless devices your going to run into each other at some point or you will have to take precausions to make sure all your devices don't use the same frequency or your neighbors.
otherwise your better off with a wired device for 2 reasons 1. no interference.
2. no chemo therapy effect (microwave radiation house effect) |
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Jason Levine
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USA | There are wireless home theater components already, but the speeds at which they operate might not work well with HD content. When I was looking into one, I wasn't even positive that it would work well for standard definition/DVD quality programs. |
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DRM Killler
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said by Matt :... I wonder if the range would be great enough to replace WiFi as the streaming transport from a PC to a media center extender? Sure. With the bandwidth to burn they would mesh great. Every device would become a micro node. Wired to the 3rd hop is still 225 Mbps. 55 Mbps at 6 hops is still enough for a few HD channels simultaneous, and some fast ast internet. I would think there to be a natural market for the elimination of signal wires, and UWB has the jizm to do the job. |
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Jason Levine
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| Now if we could only get the movie industry to "allow" us to legally (and easily) move our DVD content from the discs to computers. (By "allow" I mean consumer grade software or devices that don't get sued out of existence by the MPAA.)
Imagine bringing home a new DVD and putting it into your Home Video Server. The HVS rips your DVD to a file and shares it (video, menus, extras and all) with any TV in that home that has a Wireless Home Video Receiver connected to it.
Right now I rarely buy DVDs because they get watched once and then wind up sitting on the shelf in unorganized stacks. It would be much better to be able to put the movie into some sort of home On-Demand system. Unfortunately, the movie industry is so busy worrying about the five people that would pirate the movies to see the income potential of the five hundred who would buy and watch more movies.
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Nuts
join:2006-04-27
Forest, OH | reply to Matt
I was at my local LG dealer last week, and he told me that his LG rep told him this is in the works. I think this is something that the home electronics companies know people would love these things |
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greendragon
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Stewartville, MN | reply to Jason Levine
I would love to do the same thing. For now, I am sparingly buying movie downloads from cinemanow until something better comes out. |
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
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Phoenix, AZ
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said by Matt :This would be great for alleviating the rat's nest of wires around almost all electronic devices But then where would all the dust bunnies go??
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djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA | reply to Jason Levine
There are standards for legally streaming protected content. See:
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTCP
At the time we looked into it it was only allowed over a wired network. |
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