{"id":3995,"date":"2009-02-20T11:08:39","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T15:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.legitreviews.com:\/\/6d6d6e5dae9dff22efd7ab6f85480e66"},"modified":"2009-02-20T11:08:39","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T15:08:39","slug":"wirelesshd-to-come-to-market-in-a-few-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=3995","title":{"rendered":"WirelessHD to come to market in a few months!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At CES 2009, we saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legitreviews.com\/article\/866\/1\/\">ASUS show off the Eee Keyboard<\/a> that was to have Ultra-Wideband (UWB) capabilities to stream HD content wirelessly to your HDTV. However, it appears a competing technology from SiBeam will win the race to be first to market with their WirelessHD (WiHD). A third competing technology is Wireless Home Digital Interface (WHDI). Looks like some exciting times ahead for wireless HD content!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Over five years and with about $75 million in venture capital funding (raised from Foundation Capital, New Enterprise Associates and US Venture Partners as well as a strategic investment in December from Panasonic and Samsung), SiBeam has built 60 GHz chips using standard chip fabrication materials and techniques. What that means is that in a few months, for a few hundred dollars, you&#39;ll be able to beam almost as much data wirelessly across your living room as the Navy does across the ocean. It&#39;s even better in some respects than what the Navy has. While the Navy requires a line of sight with no obstructions to make its wireless connection, with SiBeam&#39;s gear you can get up to get a beer and walk in between the TV and the transmitter and the signal gets bounced off the walls without interrupting the program.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At CES 2009, we saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legitreviews.com\/article\/866\/1\/\">ASUS show off the Eee Keyboard<\/a> that was to have Ultra-Wideband (UWB) capabilities to stream HD content wirelessly to your HDTV. However, it appears a competing technology from SiBeam will win the race to be first to market with their WirelessHD (WiHD). A third competing technology is Wireless Home Digital Interface (WHDI). Looks like some exciting times ahead for wireless HD content!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Over five years and with about $75 million in venture capital funding (raised from Foundation Capital, New Enterprise Associates and US Venture Partners as well as a strategic investment in December from Panasonic and Samsung), SiBeam has built 60 GHz chips using standard chip fabrication materials and techniques. What that means is that in a few months, for a few hundred dollars, you&#39;ll be able to beam almost as much data wirelessly across your living room as the Navy does across the ocean. It&#39;s even better in some respects than what the Navy has. While the Navy requires a line of sight with no obstructions to make its wireless connection, with SiBeam&#39;s gear you can get up to get a beer and walk in between the TV and the transmitter and the signal gets bounced off the walls without interrupting the program.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=3995\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}