FireWire Gets Ready to Go Wireless

Posted by timothy on Tuesday May 11, 2004 @12:54PM from the anthropomorphic dept.

mindless4210 writes "The 1394 Trade Association has approved a specification for the development of wireless FireWire applications, which will let 1394-enabled devices, both wired and unwired, to connect with each other. The new spec will enable communication between a variety of devices, such as set-top boxes, HDTVs, tuners, and DVD players, all of which will be able to interoperate in home networks. Officials speculated that in the future there could be plug-in cards for set-top boxes enabling wireless connection to DVD players and hard-disk drives. The trade association also said it will work with the WiMedia Alliance to jointly develop collaborative products."

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Re:WiFi? by pnatural · 2004-05-11 13:06 · Score: 1, Troll

Too much interoperability means too little chance for profit.

Put another way: companies stand to make more money if you need to upgrade your hardware a lot.

So yeah, it would be great if there was One True Connector, One True Protocol, One True Operating System. But it just ain't gonna happen because it means less money.