IBM develops ultra fast WiFi for HDTV
IBM and MediaTek Inc. today launch a joint initiative to develop ultra fast chipsets that can wirelessly transmit a full-length high definition movie to and from a home PC, hand-held device, retail kiosk or television set nearly as fast as a viewer can push their remote control. The new technology will allow consumers to rid their homes of the cumbersome wires needed to connect their HD-TVs to set top boxes and allow the placement of devices anywhere that is convenient, instead of having to organize furniture and other accessories around technology. Both companies will combine their expertise in millimeter wave (mmWave) radio technology — the highest frequency portion of the radio spectrum where massive amounts of information can be sent quickly — and digital chipsets to create revolutionary multimedia wireless products.
The large bandwidth for data transmission available at the mmWave frequency band enables at least 100 times higher data rates than current Wi-Fi standards. For example, you could upload a 10 gigabyte file in five seconds with the new technology versus 10 minutes using current Wi-Fi technology. mmWave wireless technology can be widely used at home and office for applications such as multimedia content downloads or uncompressed HDTV streaming from your DVD player. You could wirelessly download and synchronize iPod-like devices with music and videos in seconds. If they really succeed to develop something like that, it will be a start of a small revolution…
Source: CNN, Cnet
What kind of HDD can write that fast?
well that’s hell of a good question…
G-Technology 8TB G-SPEED XL 16-Disk 4Gb/s, although that’s only .5GB/s .. can’t be arsed googling further, there’s probably something better than can, but i think that’s beside the point as most desktop users wouldnt have that sort of thing heheheehehehe..
I think it would just be read into a buffer instead of directly to the harddrive. Don’t know if I’m right but it sounds logical to me.
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apparently, your “iPod-like devices” can
Here’s my issue. They call us pirates for using available technology yet create hardware to contribute to this apparent illegal activity of p2p sharing. Wow. Hypocracy at its finest. Go IBM!!!!
i would think that the new upcoming solid state storage.
will be able to recive that much data.dosent look like that fast wifi is coming anytime soon anyway’s.
@6 how will this help pirates..? we all move into our own Pirate Town and link all the boxes together? hmmm sounds WICKED awsummm! but not going to be a reality..
I think the bandwidth claim might be conveniently untestable.
You can’t watch 10gig of anything in a few seconds at HDTV resolution, so it’s irrelevant.
This is a good idea though. I’ve got a 5.1 speaker system that has to be either for my TV or DVD due to only 1 set of inputs. Plus a meter of HDMI cable costs more than a DVD player these days.
haha @8, pirate town ay, sounds cool. let me know when
Basically they are going to put us onto one place which will attract pirates to move there or to use a certain high speed service then fkin try do us all over. But fail again.
Imagine the food stealing issues at a pirate commune.
And lack of unused power points.
I want it now (if it is real that is). Get rid of that slow wire(less) connection with the current systems. And, best of all it seems no Micro$oft involved…
Just now they trying to work out if moblie phones are damaging or not with prolonged use, I fear it will be the same with wireless in a fue years, can see the headlines, ‘Downloads Melted My Eyes’
“The new technology will allow consumers to rid their homes of the cumbersome wires needed to connect their HD-TVs to set top boxes”
because *thats* such an inconvenience…
Wifi = short range wireless (100′ inside) and is typically for your local LAN not a high speed connection to the internet.
Anyway… this article is not necessarily about COMPUTERS but devices. The most recent version of HDMI can handle up to 10.2 GBits/sec between receivers, set top box, dvd, etc. to connect to the TV.
If you don’t understand the benefit of being able to wirelessly connect your Audio/Video sources to your receiver and TV you have obviously never tried setting up a home theater in a living room! Until I moved to hi-def I had easily 32 cables between all of my equipment. Hi-def reduced that to about 19.
Add in trying to distribute that throughout your house to mulitple TV’s, the amount of heat and noise generated,etc. If I could move that all to the basement or garage and be able to watch any video source on any TV… awesome.
Besides the reduction in the clutter of cables being able to locate your equipment anywhere in the house and have access to it from any TV would be a huge bonus.
This would be great for playing back my 100,80p IMAX digitital film on my 200ft display.