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Last night at a Belkin press event, I was shown a new side to Belkin. No long satiated in being a “me too” company, they are taking off in new directions and definately moving upscale and in many cases brilliant products.
One such product is the FlyWire. Removing the unsightly cords that must travel to your wall mounted flat screen is not an easy task. Enter the FlyWire. Able to handle even the most advanced 1080p/24, the demo I saw was flawless. The picture quality looked perfect, no latentcy, it was all elegant and the unit itself was a thing of beauty. It is clear that across all their products from this mighty FlyWire to the a lowly and clever bendable USB hub, Belkin is taking design cues from modern art. Very impressive stuff.
Coming this holiday season for $999. Pre-order is available now.
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Great looking design on these gadgets. For that price, it should also have an HD DVR capability built into it.
on July 11, 2008 at 01:30 PM - LINKQuote:
The WHDI technology uses variable protection scheme where the signal is encoded in order of importance from the LSB up through the MSB. What this means is that your low frequency content (LSB) is less protected and uses less bandwidth than the MSB (high frequency) data. The real world result of this is that your picture will break up in a less noticeable manner when there is signal issues. Having said that however, this technology is no different than any other wireless technology from the perspective that when there is even moderate signal loss/congestion/interference the results will be disastrous. Thre is no getting around the fact that you are talking about pushing over 1.5Gb/s of data across 40Mhz of bandwidth, its wireless, and its wireless in an unlicensed spectrum so there WILL be interference at some point unless of course you live in a faraday cage.
Here’s the real scoop!:
on July 11, 2008 at 05:38 PM - LINKThe main problem is not interference but the loss of signal quality. LSB/MSB weighting factors is an age-old compression scheme, call it whatever you want. There is a 10 to 1 compression ration! Heck just use JPEG200 which has similar artifacts and get done with it. Beware though, you’ll see pixellated and/or washed up video especially for fast action videos like a football game. And yeah! IT WONT WORK WITH ENCRYPTED HDMI (HDCP).
On the other hand, UWB has severe line-of-sight problems and is a single room solution.
What we really need is an encrypted uncompressed “true HD” (no compression) wireless streaming that does not have line-of-sight problems like UWB. I’m aware of at least one start-up company that has the true HD streaming solution. Maybe we jsut to wait until the next CES (CES 2009). :-)
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on August 5, 2008 at 12:14 PM - LINK