RE: CAT5 vs. Wire ---- LESS ----

["BUTLER, Tony, FM" <tony.butler@xxxxxxx>]

Mark,

I didn't think this was a group to be worried about what is 'sensible' or
not :-)
but hell, here goes:

The amp is an IP device so the manufacturer can automatically update it
over
the net with the latest firmware to decode the current latest/greatest
format.
(Dolby 10.2 anyone?).
Also, analog output to speakers is so passe :) these days, why not do as
meridian do and send digital audio to digital speakers.
As it's already IP device (see above), TCP/IP seems a good choice of
transport mechanism.

With technologies like VoIP these days, it seems we are moving towards a
standard transport mechanism for what is, after all, only data.
Why bother building separate voice and data networks to do essentially the
same thing?  Just build one network and send different types of data across
it.

As home networks become more prevalant, perhaps manufacturers will see that
it is pointless coming up with a new verison of DECT or whatever, having to
worry about interference etc when they could just 'plug in' to the home
network as another IP device.
Even today, you can call a real phone from a PC with microphone and vice
versa - just shrink the technology enough and you have a phone that is a
mini pc that is a network device.

etc etc etc.

I'm not saying it _wil_ happen, just that it could _easily_ happen.  The
transition to wireless then becomes much easier & sensible as it saves
on
routing miles of cable around the home.  As was mentioned earlier, new
builds are tending to have CAT5 put in, but it's nowhere near enough.  The
solution?  Go wireless  (in a few years when speeds are good enough &
technology mature & secure enough).

does that sound sensible?

Aw hell, i'd buy that fro a dollar, sensible or not :-]

Tony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 26 March 2002 11:32
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] CAT5 vs. Wire ---- LESS ----
>
>
> Tony,
>
> I don't know that I agree.
>
> At the moment, I use CAT5 cabling to do things like run the _rear_
> outputs from my Dolby Digital decoder round to the rear amplifier and
> speakers. For this, obviously, I use KAT5.
>
> I _don't_ see that things like amplifiers will become IP devices...
> Granted, I could, even today, take the rear-channel out as an SP/DIF
> stream, and pipe that to a DAC at the other end. I'm even willing to
> believe that I could do this on a LAN... but would it be sensible?
>
> Mark Harrison
> Head of Systems, eKingfisher
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BUTLER, Tony, FM [mailto:tony.butler@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 26 March 2002 11:13
> To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] CAT5 vs. Wire ---- LESS ----
>
>
> Yeah, but it's more fun to take the mick :)
>
> As for the sports vs estate comparison.
> ATM perhaps, but with 802.11a etc just around the corner, the will be
> less
> and less difference speed wise between the two - indeed many corporate
> lans
> limit workstations to 10mb links anyway, which 802.11g exceeds
> Of course, I am only taking about data networks here - not wireless
> alarms
> etc, which is a whole other ball game.
> _one_ day, everything will be an internet device with it's own IPNG
> address,
> connecting via secure wired/wireless link to the home lan.
> _then_ there
> will be no need for wired vs wireless arguments.......
>
> Tony
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 26 March 2002 11:05
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] CAT5 vs. Wire ---- LESS ----
> >
> >
> > Doh!!!!
> >
> > Never mind, you all knew what I meant ;-)
> >
> > CAT5 vs. WireLESS
> >
> > Mark Harrison
> > Head of Systems, eKingfisher
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: BUTLER, Tony, FM [mailto:tony.butler@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 26 March 2002 11:02
> > To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
> > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] CAT5 vs. Wired
> >
> >
> > > Increasingly, I think that we'll see the whole CAT5 vs.
> > Wired argument
> > > as an "estate cars vs. sports cars" argument, in
the sense that:
> >
> > err...mmmm.... CAT5 _is_ wired!!!??? :)
> >
> > Tony
> >
> >
> >
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