I will be the first to admit that I have no idea if this is technically feasible yet, but it would be great if it could be made to work. This brainstorm came to me while trying to wade through the myriad wires and cables behind my T.V. during my Tivo installation.
My thought is to have wireless cable access. Meaning, have the cable (or satellite) plug into a router that can send a wireless signal to the television, stereo receiver, speakers etc. From what I do understand about the current technology, the signal would have to be wide enough to carry the entire spectrum, but surely (please don't call me Shirley) something could be rigged that could pull just one channel from the cable service and send it to the other components wirelessly. Could someone with more technical knowledge either shoot this down, so I can forget about it, or run with it and make a fortune selling it to disgruntled guys like myself?
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Good idea. Lots of folks (Intel, 2wire, etc.) working on it.
I expect that in the intermediate future, all cable/stereo-multimedia/satellite/networking will be wireless.
Hummm...my wife says if I die, she's cutting all the wires off the back of the TV and hooking directly to the satelite! Yes, your idea can be done. I have a modulator in my new home that has three channels. By hooking up the VCR, Tivo, and a DVD, I'm able to select 3 channels in other rooms (say kids watching Barney on chan. 48, my wife watching the news on 58, and me watching the Bucs play football on 68.) The solution here would be to transmit at a wide enough bandwidth to get a good signal. I know 802.11 is fast enough. But I wonder if it would really cut down on the number of cables? You would have to wire to the device, then transmit to the TV, where another wire would connect to it. It is possible that a new device I read about from Dell Computers would work here. It takes the computer video and transmits it to the living room TV/entertainment center. I'll see what I can find.
Yep it's possible. Soon (give it a few years) you won't have to rig them yourself. The trend is towards wireless connectivity. One of the latest rages have been WiFi. But in the near future, Ultra Wide Band (UWB) will provide the necessary bandwidth for full wireless multimedia connectivity around the home.
Ever drive down the street with a wireless LAN card in your laptop? There are quite a bit of wireless networks completely unsecured. Those which are secured with WEP encryption, can be broken into in under an hour of passive sniffing (airsnort for linux). This idea provides good news for those who don't like to pay for cable, or just want to see what you're watching. Just my $0.02
I bet it would work if you put something(cable box?)in between signal and the router to reduce it to the one channel.
whats the point of going wireless when you only set up your tv/satalite/dvd/xbox/whatever once.
do it once and foget about it, its faster and easier with cables. you dont need a transmitter or reciever, and even if you had it all wireless, you would need to plug something into each of your components anyways.