It's been a slow, painful death, but it's about time to just pull the white sheet over ultra-wideband and let the wireless standard rest in peace. After Intel
pulled its support for
UWB and proponent
WiQuest shut down late last year, all that the format really had left was
TZero. After successfully surviving some
legal issues, we thought the company was good to go in fighting a hopeless battle against wireless HD upstart
AMIMON. Now, it seems that
WHDI (that's AMIMON's magic) is free to take the market by storm, but only time will tell if wireless HD is even remotely close to
mainstream. In one sense, we're sad to see competition die, but on the other hand, it's always good to see fruitless
format wars fade away. Don't be too down on yourself, TZero -- it's not like anyone really had high expectations for you or anything.
posted Feb 12th 2009 10:14PM
Its a damn shame. UWB has so much potential
real damn shame
Yup. Real DARN shame.
(Now these comments are .17% more child-friendly)
Like UWB really mattered in the first place.
I've never heard of TZero before this blog post.
Zero? From Code Geass?
Ummmm, just like I'd rather run cables across my living room and up and down my stairs just to avoid the lag/slow-fest that is WiFi, I'd much rather run cables in the back of my (theoretical) TV cabinet.
Naturally, TV's are obsolete for those of us who would much rather just download everything off the net, but then of course, that's just me (and every other truly educated consumer out there).
So...does the inability to afford something render it obsolete then?
@ A.C.E.R.: Try harder to hide your ignorance. Has nothing to do with affording and everything to do with evolving. I have a Sony KDL-46XBR8 ($4200+), which is my 3rd LCD over 40" and I haven't used the tuner on or had a cable box connected to any of them. I just prefer the convienence and quality of a purely digital distribution than having to deal with someone else's schedule, commercials, etc...
"All but" is a linguistic atrocity. It means the exact opposite of what is trying to be said.
Weren't they the ones coming out with that $50 wireless HDMI device in CES 2009?
If thats true, then losing them is really bad.
Was really looking forward to that. Very convenient for mounted TVs.
>Don't be too down on yourself, TZero -- it's not like anyone really had high expectations for you or anything.
Why do the writers at Engadget have to be so negative and mean spirited.
UWB has not much to offer to the average Joe besides trying to propergate multiple streams of video and audio to a limit of 10 meters. For that kind of distance one can just run the cables around the room, not my living or family room which are bigger than 10m in any side, to have a clear picture and sound. And who among us has the capability to watch movies and the news and music and ... all at the same time? Let's say we were nerd enough to do that, who want to cramp a 10mx10m room with so many entertainment equipments?!
I am not surprised to see companies after companies fold as time and market prove the impracticality of a much-hyped standard.