RE: Amazing Breakthrough... (don't get too excited, it's just more wireless hype)

["Ian Lowe" <ianlowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nonsense.



SCART is a completely shitty connector, true, but a couple of unfolded coat
hangers with phono plugs soldered onto the ends makes more sense than
sending HD signals over a wireless link.



Wireless solutions have their place, but a fixed installation between two
high bandwidth devices is not that place.



The current fixation for wireless in inappropriate places is simply
pollution of a finite resource.



DECT, Bluetooth, Wifi, PAN, Zigbee. they all occupy the 2.4Ghz ISM band (as
does this frankly ridiculous HDTV solution), and congestion of this band
has
already become such an issue that Ofcom are supposedly looking at potential
restrictions, whether that is licensing of the band, more restrictions on
transmit power, forcing  a shift to a new band and so on.



WiFi NOTworks are unreliable enough without adding even more junk to the
band.



Ian.







From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Nick Austin
Sent: 11 January 2008 19:23
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Amazing Breakthrough... (don't get too excited, it's
just more wireless hype)



On Jan 8, 2008 2:58 PM, Ian Lowe <ianlowe@xxxxxxx
<mailto:ianlowe%40xplproject.org.uk>
> wrote:
>
> Why on earth would anyone want a wireless system to throw ludicrous
> amounts of data between two devices that sit less than a meter apart?
> because they are a moron, that's why.

Because it's better & more reliable than using a SCART connector.

Nick.



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