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Wireless streaming of video over the network
I am wondering:
Apple announced iTV, and Windows their new Zune.
If I understood well, both claim they will have video streaming over the network. The wifi 802.11g protocol.
It can not be at 54Mbps.
No way.
I have 54Mbps and no way I am streaming video from my shared library to another computer.
A clip of 5Mb works, but a series or a movie of 500Mb: hellish.
So I wonder:
Apple claims their tool will be capable of streaming video over the wireless network.
Or they found a new way/encodation to have a better bits and bytes transfer over the 54Mbps connection.
Or they'll introduce faster Airport Bases.
(And their 300 dollar iTV will need this new Base Station for wireless video streaming making it a 500 dollar media solution..)
And what about this Zune?
Movies wireless??
Anyone an answer?
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Posted on September 17, 2006
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In last week's keynote Apple announced '802.11 wireless networking' for the iTV. They didn't mention if it's going to use 802.11g or the faster 802.11n protocol.
Posted by Wouter | September 18, 2006 10:01 AM802.11n is only expected in 2007, so maybe that's why the iTV will not arrive before 2007?
Think Secret mentions this as well: http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0609sept12mediaevent.html
I don't think they'll use 802.11n as that standard won't be here fast.
Posted by Bart Braem | September 19, 2006 7:29 AMI guess they'll either use a better codec (ogm?) or just compress the movie. Probably Microsoft will do both...
There are rumors that the new iMac allready contains 802.11n card: http://www.tuaw.com/2006/09/25/core-2-duo-macs-including-802-11n-wi-fi-cards/
Posted by Wouter | September 25, 2006 11:06 PMAlthough this is hard to believe.