Amimom’s WHDI (Wireless Home Digital Interface) could change home entertainment set ups forever. This new technology will do away with all the wires that connect to the T.V. – everything from a DVD player to a PlayStation could have WHDI in them. Also, with this technology, you would no longer have to worry about getting multiple cable boxes – potentially, all T.V.s could connect to one main one. This would allow for much less installation, and make home entertainment systems even easier to put in place. WHDI is better than older technology that tried to do the same thing because WHDI “sends digital video… flying around the house uncompressed at data rates of up to 3 gigabytes”. This will make setting up home networks, or even business networks much easier to set up. If everything was connected by WHDI technology, it would be extremely easy to move things around, or to connect to different servers. With things like WiFi, WiMax, and other technologies constantly making things more and more wireless, this could definitely be the next step.
While the WHDI technology will be great for home entertainment and getting rid of cables, it also has a lot of use in other fields. The article talks about its use in hospitals, especially in surgery rooms so that surgeons aren’t slowed down by a lot of cables hanging everywhere. Anything that helps a surgeon to do their job more efficiently or at least take away things that impede their efficiency, is a good thing.
This technology also has a lot of future potential. If the technology takes off, and gets expanded upon, the possibilities for it seem endless. Right now, the radio waves of WHDI have “a range of about 100 feet and can pass through walls”. If, sometime in the future, the radio waves could have a range of a mile or more, we could have digital cable and other things everywhere. For example, T.V. in cars would be able to get the same digital cable that can be had at home. This seems extremely plausible, because already today we see things like the 3G technology that sends data through the air extremely fast. If things like that are possible through phone lines, it seems extremely likely that technologies like WHDI will be able to do similar, if not better, things.
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/oct2009/gb20091019_079270.htm?chan=technology_technology+index+page_digital+entertainment
Monday, November 2, 2009
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I agree along with most television users in saying that taking away wires, which connect, to the TV will make things easier and cleaner. The only problem I see rising is what was stated at the end of the article. There is too much competition from WiFi and now WiMax which are systems that already exist, to make it possible for Amimom’s WHDI’s wireless home digital interface to be successful. It was also stated that with the depression going on in this country that companies have had to lay off multiple people and cancel plans for new products.
In my opinion WiMax has the potential to have a signal sent to someone’s cell phone that obviously receives Internet, and from that phone be able to control all of the television and gaming control settings. This will not only take away wires but take away remote controls from all television sets, and maybe even from all gaming consuls.
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