Comments on: IBM develops ultra fast WiFi for HDTV

By: Mr. X

Mr. X — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:04:02 +0000

This would be great for playing back my 100,80p IMAX digitital film on my 200ft display.

By: StupidIs

StupidIs — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:13:41 +0000

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.

By: kev

kev — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:51:11 +0000

“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…

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:32:19 +0000

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’

By: Johnny

Johnny — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:27:45 +0000

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…

By: Teko

Teko — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:08:14 +0000

Imagine the food stealing issues at a pirate commune.
And lack of unused power points.

By: neeB___

neeB___ — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:25:15 +0000

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.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:01:58 +0000

haha @8, pirate town ay, sounds cool. let me know when

By: Teko

Teko — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:43:33 +0000

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.

By: gonzales

gonzales — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:42:27 +0000

@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..

By: Emiiiil

Emiiiil — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:38:47 +0000

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.

By: CaptainHack

CaptainHack — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:55:47 +0000

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!!!!

By: freeloader

freeloader — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:31:07 +0000

@1
apparently, your “iPod-like devices” can

By: simpsons225

simpsons225 — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:26:51 +0000

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.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:06:30 +0000

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..