EETimes recently reported that DirectTV is exploring versions of WiFi and is planning to test wired links based on G.hn.
With all the wonders of WiFi, there are simple laws of physics prevent any flavor of 802.11 delivering stable HD video, let alone services the provider needs to have access to in order to resolve technical issues.
Given from what I saw at the recent CES 2010 show, content is only going to get bigger, thicker, wider and deeper – especially with 3D coming. That means we are going to demand more information through wired pipes.
Read the article in its entirety and note the quote from DirectTV’s Henry Derovanessian, vice president of set top engineering "…nothing I have seen so far shows we are at a point of wireless maturity for carrying premium satellite TV over a home network….”
To me wireless is great, but according to the experts at DirectTV, when it comes to what is coming down the pipe, visions of true wireless HD remains at best, a pipe dream.
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Yeah! Finally! An article with a sense of what really is vs. what everyone wishes it really was.
Thank you!
Posted by: MsMobileConverg (twitter) | February 10, 2010 at 05:47 PM