Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Wireless Video standards war

A bunch of references from GigaOM - it looks as if UltraWideBand 480Mbit USB is in trouble, and the alternatives are a dedicated Wireless HD video standard and Wifi based video streaming. UWB has some nice characteristics, but perhaps the ubiquity of WiFi wins again.... (There have been many cases over the years of technologies losing to Ethernet and IP based networks in the end).

http://gigaom.com/2008/10/31/ultra-wideband-near-death-as-wiquest-shuts-down/

http://gigaom.com/2008/04/09/wireless-hd-is-the-new-front-in-a-standards-war/

http://gigaom.com/2008/08/15/vcs-hope-to-see-wi-fi-everywhere/

I just want to be able to stream video from my iPhone to my TV set without any wires, don't care what the technology is, and I'm thinking of getting a WiFi enabled TV with Netflix embedded in it around the end of this year.