Netgear CES Showcase: 4x4 MIMO WiFi Device that Shares HD Video on Home Network

5Jan2010
Submitted by: The BURNED iN Crew

netgear"Hey Netgear, did you have a surprise for us at CES? Say the world's first 4x4 MIMO 802.11n WiFi HD Video bridge? Sorry, but Quantenna just revealed your partnership that promises to deliver Full HD video quality streams across distances of "100 feet or more, regardless of signal interferences and dead zones." According to the Quantenna press release, anyway. That's up to 5x the distance of existing wireless HD solutions thanks to Quantenna's 4x4 Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) technology, adaptive transmit digital beamforming, and wireless channel monitoring and optimizing; a lot of scary sounding jargon that should allow the device to carry up to four streams of full HD video pretty much anywhere in the house with claimed "near-perfect transmission performance." While we don't have pics yet you can expect Netgear's baby to be sporting 4 antennas (like the Quantenna reference design pictured) when it's announced proper in the next few days." Source

Our Take: Not that there are a lot HD recording options on the PC, but we hope devices like this start a bigger push for an increased number of HDMI capture cards.  The geek in us would like to see HTPCs (Home Theather PCs) take back some of the market that HD-DVRs are dominating.

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