Seen that? – A Breakdown of HDMI
A Breakdown of HDMI The Wired Home Weblog
The other day we mentioned that the Toshiba RD-Z1 HDMI DVD and PVR combo came with the new HDMI connection. What is HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) you ask? Hometoys.com has a great article on what HDMI is and says:First, the connector for the HDMI standard is much smaller than the DVI connector. The connector more closely resembles a USB-type connector than a computer video (VGA, DVI, etc.) type connector. [...] Read More
Zigbee: Wireless Standard For Home Automation The Wired Home Weblog
We mentioned the other day that the new Home Heartbeat Monitoring system from Eaton would operate on the IEE 802.15.4 wireless protocol also known as Zigbee. So what is Zigbee? The ChicagoTribune.com has a nice article that gives you the low-down and advantages of Zigbee. One of the best features mentioned in the article is: By now, you're probably wondering, who needs another wireless standard? After all, we've already got Bluetooth [...] Read More
Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Home Automation The Wired Home Weblog
There's a new home automation book on the scene. The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Home Automation is available for preorder at Amazon.com and the description states: Get the home of tomorrow, today! Absolute Beginner's Guide to Home Automation will help you turn your ordinary home into a high-tech haven. Want to schedule your lights to turn on while you're on vacation? Stuck late at work and want to start the [...] Read More
360 to get HDMI port? XboxSpace
This falls under the category of: I hope it's true…but I wish it wasn't. The pic comes from Xbox-Scene, I don't know much about it and neither does anybody else…so your guess is as good as mine as to whether it's legit or not. But here's a two reasons why I think this is legit: 1) Microsoft can put HD-DVD in the 360 2) It would be nice to have full digital output I just [...] Read More
HDMI without wires – sorta… The Digital TV Weblog
One of the things that has always bugged me about all the flash HDTVs we’ve got these days is that, although it is reletively easy to mount them attractively on walls, it is actually very difficult to stop ugly wires hanging out the bottom without say, drilling into your walls and routing cables through them. So this is why we like the RocketFish WirelessHD. It lets you remove one of [...] Read More
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