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Wireless Monitors?
antiopus writes "I didn't think it was possible anytime soon due to bandwidth considerations, but ViewSonic has announced a wireless monitor. At only 10 inches and 800x600, I don't know if it'll be replacing my CRT anytime soon, but I can certainly foresee some interesting applications for wearable/portable computing."
Knowing Slashdot... I restrained myself from totally flipping out, after ACTUALLY READING the page, it's just a badly named WinCE Tablet PC. Is it even possible to make a true wireless monitor? I'd think you'd need a whole new type of video card for that. Any thought?
Eddy.WriteLinux.Com
Sheesh - just get one of these and a wireless card. Save yourself $100's. ..plus it runs Linux, use it as a wireless remote, mp3 player, etc..
"I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them." -Isaac Asimov
Just look at RDP over IP, works fine, even over a 56Kb modem connection.
European Linux user, living in Antwerp
Yes, but then if you're drawing vector graphics on a monitor, its no longer a monitor.
First off, that is what this Viewsonic device is effectively doing, via a limited OS.
Secondly, analog TV has nowhere near the resolution of a 1024x768 computer monitor. Ever seen super-sharp 1/8" tall letters on your tv? No? oh, right, because its only got 300-odd scan lines. WIth the current generation of technology, wireless monitors are totally impractical. Besies, considering the cost of building a super-high-bandwidth limited range RF transciever vs the cost of a 25-pin cable, it'll almost never fly. Small, wireless tablet-pc's OTOH are kinda cool though... just expensive. Finally, the whole "assuming every pixel changes 60 times per seond thing" doesn't work. Lets say you're in windows/linux with gnome, doing work processing, so, lets say 1/100'th of your pixels change every second on average. Thats fine with good compression, and when you have a whole screen refresh it'll take a bit longer. But then you can't do games like quake, where everything changes every second. Remember, averages don't work in reality.
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Please enlighten us. One Cable TV Channel, running 60, 30 frame/s? What resolution would you give the best Cable TV, anything like 800x600? I'm sure it requires a bit more than 6 MHz for a steady stream of 'worst case' frame to frame. His math is crude, but it's hardly worth dwelling on. You'd still like some kind of scrambling so the neighbors and spooks can't track what you're doing, right?
Power of a transmitter could be very low, but you'd want to be sure your OC'd CPU doesn't leak noise from your modded PC case and interfer, so a bit of extra power might be called for. When it comes down to it, you should probably be running at least in the GHz range. Maybe at that power and frequency you could nuke some houseflies...
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
it still needs to be plugged in, in order for it to get power... dosn't that sort of defeat the wireless part of it...
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Well as the last 500 million people pointed out it's not a wireless monitor, just a thing client with wi-fi...but...
) for a while waiting and waiting for them to release it. The "Available in Channels" month changes with each successive month unfortunately. I hope it's not vapourware because this thing has some great potential. Using it in conjunction with LCD projectors in rooms that you can't or don't want to wire with vid cable on the ceiling or hey everyone needs a flat panel on the wall in the bathroom - just drop the wireless keyboard in the magazine rack when not in use :)
at least someone is working on wireless computer video signal transmission. I have been following this product from linksys (http://www.linksys.com/products/presentation.asp
My 0.02