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by Unregistered 5445 days ago
Why thunderbolt interconnect, and not wireless thunderbolt interconnect? We already have Wireless HDMI.
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masklinn 5445 days ago
> Why thunderbolt interconnect, and not wireless thunderbolt interconnect?

20Gb each way over the air? Good luck with that one. And the latencies are going to be ignominious.

> We already have Wireless HDMI.

WHDMI is not a 2-way data communication, latency matters far less when you're just streaming A/V to your television.

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Unregistered 5445 days ago
The article was meant to be forward looking -

"You see, we are almost certainly moving towards"

I don't think the vision is practical if you have to continuously plug/unplug your devices. The wirelessHD spec has theoretical data rates up to 25Gb.

Latency matters for user input ( keyboard/mouse) which is already accommodated at much lower bitrates, so I wouldn't expect it to be much of an issue.

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masklinn 5445 days ago
> Latency matters for user input ( keyboard/mouse)

Not really, as long as those latencies stay significantly sub-second they're invisible to users. These latencies matter for everything but user input.

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Unregistered 5445 days ago
" as long as those latencies stay significantly sub-second"

exactly.

You can't really state that something doesn't matter, and then give criteria under which it doesn't matter. That implies that it does matter, and the solution needs to be engineered within spec.

I'd also be interested in some examples of the "everything else" cases in which latency is a big deal ( within the given context).

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