Comments on: Inching closer to wireless hi-def video

The Wireless Home Digital Interface standard is set to be completed this year, then embedded in TVs and set-top boxes next year, says chipmaker Amimon.

[mctroyd]

Have people really become so lazy that they can't be bothered to simply plug in a cable? What happens when every other house and apartment has this technology, as with Wi-Fi now? Do we simply deal with the cross-talk and accept the picture quality loss as inevitable?

For $100 to $200 you can pay an installer to professionally run cable through the wall and terminate at wall plates... nice, neat, clean, reliable, and upgrade-proof.

[vbp1]

I do not think it's lasyness, can you immagine if you could place your TV at/on any wall in your house and have all the extrass like DVD/AMP etk. tacked away some where out of sight.
an option not to run cables all over the house.
it is more of the convinience thing

[jdb5388]

100 to 200 dollars is nothing compared to the price of HDMI cables running to several tv's. Plus it would be great to watch DVR shows from one box on any tv in the house.

[Nighteye19]

I agree. This could turn into a mess like Wi-Fi is now in congested areas. You will have 15 people within signal range fighting over the same band frequency, not to mention other tech devices like phones that interfere too. And does this mean I can just tap into my neighbors' signals and see what they are watching? Didn't see anything about any kind of security built into these devices.

[retroblu]

i agree, how do people distinguish between theres and the neighbors, would it be like walkie talkies where you can set channels and the tx and rx would have to be on the same channels, and how many channels(digits in a channel) would there be available if that was the cause