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Well, it looks like NEC has been reading my blog, because they just created the exact device I was ranting about wanting back a couple of weeks ago. According to Gizmodo, who was able to translate their press release (I cannot currently read Japanese), they have just come out with a technology that converts analog signals to digital and transfers them at a lightning fast 1Gbps. That’s about 20 times the speed of 802.11G and apparently fast enough to transmit the large data demands of HDTV. That’s what HDTV is suggesting. I’m not sure exactly what they are suggesting in this regard, though? Are they suggesting that this product would enable an HD receiver and monitor to communicate wirelessly? If so, so what? First of all, you could just build the receiver INTO the monitor, but even if that’s not the case, you still have so many components in a hope theater that rely on all these wired connections, having one component’s connection to another be wireless seems a little pointless. What my idea was initially seems much more apropos – use this to communicate between your computer(s) and your Entertainment system. This way whatever you can play on your computer, no matter what format, can be piped to your stereo wirelessly and played at the same quality level, not the crappy FM modulation quality. Also, you could play video files you’ve downloaded onto your computer on your TV, or you could play HDTV on your computer, although I’m not sure why you would want to. I guess what you might be able to do is build your own HDTV DVR on the cheap with a PC solution, and then simply pipe the signal over to your TV, although I wonder whether the conversion to back and forth between digital and analog would degrade the quality enough to where the signal would look like standard definition? Who knows, but it seems like at least one company is thinking in the right direction.
Also, I wonder how this transmission technology would work as another Wifi technology? What’s the range? Gizmodo mentions a 60Ghz transmissions band, so this won’t be interfering with the currently way overused 2.4Ghz band.