SiBEAM founder says WirelessHD is best for "in-room" applications
by Darren Murph 
posted Dec 10th 2008 at 8:40AM
While AMIMON is busy gloating about its 100,000th chipset shipment, WirelessHD is quietly lurking in the background waiting to exploit a niche of its own. In a rather telling interview, SiBEAM founder John Marshall (pictured) confessed that it was going after a different market rather than taking on the WHDI (and similar) format directly. He stated that its milliwave'-based WirelessHD technology -- which just received a cash infusion from Panasonic and Samsung -- "targets in-room use, whereas the others target whole-home use." He continued by noting that it "limit its use to inside a room to make the most of milliwave's properties, without assuming content transmissions through walls." Finally, we're led to believe that certain partners will be making product-based announcements at CES 2009, though judging by the history of cord-free HD, we wouldn't expect anything to start shipping right away. Or ever, even.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
dslate69 @ Dec 10th 2008 12:07PM
Whether they are targeting in-room or other companies are targeting whole-house (skeptical on performance). How hard would it be to put a female coax on the transmitter and one on the receiver so one could connect an existing rg6 or even rg59 run to get HD to another room with 100% signal strength?
Do I have to think of everything? :)
Santa Claus @ Dec 13th 2008 5:18PM
Jesus John,
Last time we saw your mug you were pushin' two plexiglass phased array dongle-boxes.
And tellin' us how end user product was on it's way.
Hell, you just got more financing a couple days ago.
You must be miles from chipset production.
If you were as good of an engineer as you are a saleman, we'd a had the damn thing years ago.
I hope your not blowin' smoke about good clean beam steerin' around a room or your radar is gonna flop!
And if you can't get it out the door in 09 you may not need to worry how the EMR bounces around anyway.
If you don't hurry up you're gonna be to old and gray to spend those royalties.
Mrs Clause @ Dec 13th 2008 5:46PM
Sibeam better "go hot" with the ECM pods (Electronic Counter Measures)... the big boys are comin' after em.
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