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Millimeter Wave Chips Could Make Wireless A/V a Normal Thing [Guts]
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<blockquote data-quote="Geek" data-source="post: 2083139" data-attributes="member: 246624"><p><a href="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/z1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/500x_z1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>Wireless HD TVs and Blu-ray players are far from standard, but that may change as a plethora of super fast <a href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/millimeterwave/" target="_blank">millimeter wave</a> chips—based upon a standard by the IEEE802 (Wi-Fi) board—are released later this year.</p><p></p><p>We're talking about a 1Gb/s transfer rates, which would allow you to transmit a CD in 5 seconds or an SD movie in 9 seconds, used in devices ranging from TVs to mobile phones. (We've seen millimeter wave in limited rollout already, licensed from a company named SiBEAM.)</p><p></p><p>But according to Tech-On, Hitachi, Panasonic and Toshiba are all working on 60GHz wireless millimeter wave chips (that operate on the 7GHz band) of their own, with complementary products arriving the second half of this year. Such news is certainly no guarantee that millimeter wave tech will be the future home entertainment standard, but I say we support it. Because, c'mon. If we're still plugging in set top boxes 10 years from now, mankind has failed. We might as well just give up on world peace, walking on Mars and reaching a Gamerscore of 1,000,000.</p><p></p><p>More on the matter at: [<a href="http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/HONSHI/20100125/179604/?P=1" target="_blank">Tech-On</a>]</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?p=1" target="_blank"><img src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?p=1" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a><img src="http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2226" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=14OYnJVv-0Y:P7kje5U6Fcs:H0mrP-F8Qgo" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=14OYnJVv-0Y:P7kje5U6Fcs:yIl2AUoC8zA" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=14OYnJVv-0Y:P7kje5U6Fcs:D7DqB2pKExk" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=14OYnJVv-0Y:P7kje5U6Fcs:D7DqB2pKExk" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=14OYnJVv-0Y:P7kje5U6Fcs:V_sGLiPBpWU" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=14OYnJVv-0Y:P7kje5U6Fcs:V_sGLiPBpWU" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a></p><p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/14OYnJVv-0Y" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
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