07-23-2008, 08:40 PM
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 Re: NEWS: CE giants pitch yet another wireless HD standard
Jeff Liebermann wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:00:36 +0000 (UTC), danny burstein
> <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:
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>> In <nvce849d9drkv2md4oupee42hhdqgepg5v@4ax.com> John Navas <spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> writes:
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>>> <http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/07/23/whdi_sig_launched/>
>>> Amimon claimed WHDI's range is 30.5m. It can go through walls and has
>>> a latency of less than a millisecond.
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> Standards are a good thing. Every company (and consortium) should
> have one.
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>>> [MORE]
>> Now where, oh where, do you suppose they came
>> up with that wierd figure of "30.5 meters"?
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> They paced it off. 1 pace = 1 meter. When they ran a little short,
> they got out the tape measure, and added the extra 0.5 meter.
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>> You don't suppose they've converted from
>> a nice round number in some other measuring
>> system, doyathink?
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> Nope. It's suppose to go through walls. They probably paced it off
> until they hit a wall, walked around to the other side, and continued
> pacing.
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> Another possibility is that they used one of those ultrasonic
> measuring tapes. They read off in tenths of a meter.
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> Yet another possibility is that they couldn't decide if they should
> round the 0.5 up or down.
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> Of course, the article didn't mention if it was actually usable at
> 30.5 meters, or whether the error rate was sufficient to irritate the
> avearge TV user. Most users can tolerate quite a bit of garbled audio
> (i.e. cell phones, VoIP), but even a few artifacts on the HDTV screen
> will produce an irate phone call to the cable or satellite providers
> outsourced support provider.
> http://www.amimon.com/PDF/tech_article%20final.pdf  |