“You may have heard this already, but Macworld is next week and Apple is expected to show off its iTV, a hub that will let PCs and digital TVs transfer data wirelessly,” Michael Kanellos blogs for CNET News.
“But how? Video and music files are big, and transferring them inside a house beyond a few metres without glitches has always been problematic,” Kanellos writes.
Kanellos writes, “Apple says it will use a form of Wi-Fi, which is often subject to interference because the signals travel in the same spectrum as those that operate, among other objects, your garage door remote.”
Kanellos writes, “The possible solution is a specialised, proprietary form of Wi-Fi that insulates the signals from the hoi polloi.”
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