Just when you got used to hearing about the skirmishes between the music and film industries and peer-to-peer file swapping and downloading online, now start thinking about this: It may not be long before you'll be able to stream high-quality and uninterrupted sound and vision wirelessly from your computer to your television set.
All you'll need, according to Wired, "is a pair of dongles, and voila - the movie (you've) downloaded from the Internet appears on (your) TV screen."
Wired said Sony, Samsung, Philips, and Sharp, who helped develop the technology standard making this possible, are in development on products to release next year to make that streaming reality in your home.
The magazine said WiMedia, a new wireless standard developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, will make this once-fantasy scenario into reality and sooner than you think. This technology shares the same cluster of airwaves as cordless telephones, microwave ovens, and WiFi, Wired added, and would facilitate fast and uninterrupted streaming between two devices 300 feet apart at a speed of up to 55 mps.
Once a connection is made between WiMedia devices, according to Appairent Technologies chairman Robert Heile, compliant devices – television, your stereo, your computer, your camcorder, any of your other electronic toys – could connect wirelessly without you doing a thing.
Wireless Data Research Group Ian McPherson told Wired the new technology would also let you play music from radio stations around the world instead of just relying on your local broadcasters.
