Here's the funny thing: 270 Mbits over coax has been around since the early 1990's. It was called CCIR601, but then the ITU dissolved the CCIR so the standard is now known as ITU-R BT Rec.601 or some such alphabet soup. It was also called (inaccurately) "D1 video" (D1 is/was a digital video tape format). Since then, the 270 Mbit transport layer has been used for moving MPEG around, which is called DVB-ASI (that's right, as in the European "Digital Video Broadcasting"). ASI stands for Asychronous Serial Interface, and is the common transport for data between MPEG-2 encoders, IPE's, and MUX's at DTV head ends throughout the world. So, the idea that you could move lotsa stuff around at 270 MBits, even on crappy home-installed RG-6, is not rocket science. Making products that can do that CHEAPLY in the HOME is NEWS! (A DTV head end is a $million or 2.)
I was in Tokyo yesterday and saw a Fujitsu Crusoe machine for sale. It was a FMV-Biblo LOOX T5-53, 128MB/10GB, DVD etc etc. for \209,800 or about US$2040 including the sales tax. Looks like a cool machine (obviously) but (yucky-poo-poo) it comes with VindersME (Kanji) and orfice. I did a web search to see if the price was good, but came up with NADA, so I guess it is... tempting!
OFF-TOPIC* Also saw the IBM version of the Palm V - Kanji flavor, for about US$450 but they were out of stock.
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Here's the funny thing: 270 Mbits over coax has been around since the early 1990's. It was called CCIR601, but then the ITU dissolved the CCIR so the standard is now known as ITU-R BT Rec.601 or some such alphabet soup. It was also called (inaccurately) "D1 video" (D1 is/was a digital video tape format). Since then, the 270 Mbit transport layer has been used for moving MPEG around, which is called DVB-ASI (that's right, as in the European "Digital Video Broadcasting"). ASI stands for Asychronous Serial Interface, and is the common transport for data between MPEG-2 encoders, IPE's, and MUX's at DTV head ends throughout the world. So, the idea that you could move lotsa stuff around at 270 MBits, even on crappy home-installed RG-6, is not rocket science. Making products that can do that CHEAPLY in the HOME is NEWS! (A DTV head end is a $million or 2.)
I was in Tokyo yesterday and saw a Fujitsu Crusoe machine for sale. It was a FMV-Biblo LOOX T5-53, 128MB/10GB, DVD etc etc. for \209,800 or about US$2040 including the sales tax. Looks like a cool machine (obviously) but (yucky-poo-poo) it comes with VindersME (Kanji) and orfice. I did a web search to see if the price was good, but came up with NADA, so I guess it is... tempting!
OFF-TOPIC* Also saw the IBM version of the Palm V - Kanji flavor, for about US$450 but they were out of stock.