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Gigabit Wireless Will Link Smartphones To TVs
judgecorp writes "More progress for WiGig, the proposal for 3Gbps wireless links on 60GHz radio waves. The WiGig group has signed a deal with VESA, the display standards group, to include WiGig as a fast wireless option in VESA's DisplayPort standard. As well as letting you use a TV as a display for your phone, without having to connect a cable, it will also make synching and file transfer quicker."
Wiggig? Why-Gig? Wiggums? WTF????
Someone really needs to start smacking down whoever makes up these stupid names.
Why would I want to synch or transfer files between my phone and my TV?
Most are still using nothing, wep, wpa or the wrong wpa-2 options. :-(
New things are always on the horizon
Until very recently, it was hard to find anything beyond 802.11b in most cellphones. Now they're talking about leapfrogging all the way up to WiGig? How big are WiGig chips, what kind of power budget do they require, how expensive are they? This sounds like it might be a neat idea for 5+ years in the future, but it's completely impractical for anytime in the near future. I'm guessing the target market is people who want to play back video they've recorded from their phone camera on a big screen.
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That's great.
Except that no one uses DisplayPort. It was basically invented in order to avoid paying royalties to Intel, who holds patents on HDMI and DVI. There are more TVs with VGA ports at this point, and that's unlikely to change.
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Droid in 1080p... *glorious*
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designed to lock open source competition out and yet another splurge of patents, but "with a phone on your TV" tacked on them to make them seem novel...
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I guess this is for really local stuff, line of sight?
The phone is going to replace the desktop and laptop PC for most user. (Ok, someone always point out some niche use that will remain, but it's just that: niche). It will talk to your high res monitor, keyboard, mouse, internet, and other phones, but it'll just be carried with you in your pocket and wherever you go, it will be there too. True mobile computing with all the advantages of fixed resources when you are near them.
The traditional desktop PC will fade away. Phones are getting increasingly powerful 3D chipsets and will be able to substitute for 98% of what people do with desktops and laptops today but in a portable form factor.
This is the future of the industry, and it's what all the big players are preparing for.
Amusingly, it also means a huge shift of power FROM microsoft TO apple and google.
It also means safer computing and less viruses, because app stores will be a barrier for malware. Will it be perfect? No, but it will be a lot better than the situation today. Don't make the mistake of thinking a replacement has to be perfect: it only ha to be enough better than people move to it large numbers. And the shift has already started.
Sounds to me more like turning your phone into a high definition media player that gets rid of the need for a media server and blu-ray/DVD player.
If they put it into phones then it may also destroy some of the casual gaming console market. Phones often cost more than a Wii, but you still see young people with them all the time. One of my friends the other day was gobsmacked at a "kid.. with.. an iPhone" the other day. If a phone also doubles up as a games console then I can see parents jumping at the opportunity to cut down on costs.
which is totally what she said
Droid in 1080p... *glorious..ly slow*
FTFY :)
which is totally what she said
This is exactly what I need to pull that phone to display trick Tony pulled in Iron Man 2.
You have to admit that's cool. Some of your friends are watching a movie and you point your phone at the screen to commandeer the display and show video of your recent surgery, or stupid cat tricks, or even live video surveillance of your empty bedroom...
in spending a billion dollars re-inventing a DVB TV transmitter
I believe that in this microwave frequency range, the signals will be attenuated by atmosphere, so there will be natural limitations on range, especially at low power.
In ham radio, there are people doing 47 GHz propagation of morse code (CW) and voice signals via rainscatter. (think of weather radar) The record range is 343km from mountaintop to mountaintop using high-powered directional dishes (W6QI and AD6FP).
-molo
Using your sig line to advertise for friends is lame.
At that frequency you ought to have directional antennas.. and probably use ur phone to cook food (as a death ray..??) ..!!!!
As well as letting you use a TV as a display for your phone, without having to connect a cable,
So, what you're really telling us, is that soon, with a directional antenna and a little work, I'll be able to goatse the tv aisle at best buy, walmart, and the local sports bar.
I'm liking it!
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Because phones are just chock full of the storage needed to replace a Bluray player. Or wait... no... phones have very small amounts of storage. Even 64GB is small. Battlestar Galactica on Bluray is what, something like 800GB of data or something?
Wow, that's very meta.
Before you posted that, nobody had read it. ;-)
This is just about what Zeno's paradox boils down to: "The Hare never catches the Tortoise until it does."
Set your phasers on "funky"!
You think that phones are going to be stuck at 64GB max forever? Besides, people rarely watch a whole series of a TV program in one showing, and the majority of series at the moment are still in SD format. Currently I have one series on blu-ray, and maybe 50 on DVD.
Even with no actual storage available, they could be used to stream media from iTunes/whatever in the same way that AppleTV and its competitors do. The market for streaming media is only going to continue growing to the detriment of physical media. It's not yet at the stage where I'm going to give up my MP3 collection and subscribe to Spotify because they still are missing a few of my favourite artists, but eventually things will get there.
which is totally what she said
How are signals sent upstream? Can the home TV antenna now, somehow transmit, or are we still using copper or some other form of connection?
see also: history.
If it can be packetized, it can be repeated and routed. Look for DisplayPort over IPv6 before it's dead.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
A single Blu-Ray disc can only hold ~50GB of data.
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It would just be nice to be able to just hook up a little connector from my iphone to the TV set, and then i could watch my netflix movie running on my iphone over to my TV screen, or whatever my iphone screen was showing, is this even possible...if so how?
Pah. Details.
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I wonder what the TV networks will say about all of this. They recently blocked Google TV from pulling internet content. I realize this is not identical tech but the tech does yield the same end result, the PC potentially replacing the cable box. I see this type of tech and Google TV merging in the future making the TV an all in one media center (finally). The issue now becomes with the networks pushing their content online with an AD based internet model and not wanting to lose the other revenue stream they are getting from cable TV providers I wonder what the cable companies and networks will do to try and stop this?
Old technology made new. I thought it was some kind of microwave and such. Funny how the human mind can come up with almost anything just to label things "cool" Learn DSLR Video Store