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Wireless HD...
Here is an interesting product from Belkin.
Tomshardware.com: Quote:
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/belkin-w...news-1922.html
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I'm watching 720p and 1080i on my HD extender using 2.4GHz 802.11n. Cost me about $100 (2 routers @ $50 each). I just had to install free aftermarket firmware on one to turn it into a wireless bridge. $1000 is ridiculously expensive.
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... right. Agreed with the comment above. I don't know the math on bandwidth requirements for 1080p but I'm sure it couldn't be worth $750 more than a good wireless router with the HD extender. I don't get it, either. Interesting that there must be a market for it even though it's going to be a $1K.
AWS
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About 3Gbps for 1080p60. That's tremendous bandwidth over wireless (just think how much trouble WiFi has maintaining 30 - 40 Mbps, and it has to be 100% reliable/consistent/solid unlike WiFi.
The purpose of this product isn't to replace things like extenders, it's to replace the cable between the source and display. Probably the biggest application of this would be in front projection systems where it can be rather difficult to run wires from the player to the display (within the same room). All that said, I think you can run an HDMI cable for the $900+ price difference between an HDMI cable and this thing. |
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The 999 version I am not really should what would be the point.....I guess you could maybe do some whole house wireless audio/video distribution system?
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And if you can't, email me, and I'll do it for $999.
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That's what they're saying.
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What 802.11n router is able to run after market firmware? I thought it was just the Linksys G routers that could do it.
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Stanger,
I'm coming up with <100Mbps for Blu-ray with 1080p24 + 8 channel PCM. How did you get 3 Gbps?
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This device is used as a go between from your blu-ray player (or other video device) video/audio output and your tv. Your tv can not take the compressed blu-ray stream directly and so it is converted to an uncompressed video stream. Look up the HDMI specs and you will see why 3 Gbps is necessary.
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This device caries raw video up to 1080p60 (I believe): 1920x1080*24bits/pixel*60 frame/sec ~= 3Gbps |
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Did it say somewhere in the specs that it transmits the data uncompressed? That seems hardly efficient when it can just decode on the receiver end (unit plugged into the tv).
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(From the link posted above) |
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Do you know of any Blu-ray players, Cable/Satellite STBs, game consoles, AVRs/SSPs, DVRs, that output video as a compressed bitstream?
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I don't have a game console or Blu-ray player, so ignorance is bliss.
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or PC, or extender
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