More hype about HomePlug and HDTV
By Kevin C. Tofel 
posted Oct 4th 2005 11:53AM
posted Oct 4th 2005 11:53AM
NE Asia Online has a high-level update on HomePlug technology. HomePlug
is promising the world that we can use our electrical wiring to extend
and share networkable devices and media at very fast speeds. The HomePlug 1.0 standard,
for example, allows for up to 15 devices on one HomePlug network which
is capable of bandwidth in the 150Mbps to 200Mbps range.I'm really interested in any local streaming at these speed simply because it's ideal for HDTV streaming, which currently requires 19.3Mbps with MPEG-2 compression. HomePlug seems perfect for an HDTV media server, but quite frankly it doesn't seem mainstream yet.
Much to the chagrin of my significant other and my checkbook, I'm known as an early adopter, but I'm not sure about HomePlug just yet. Has anyone plugged in to the HomePlug hype or is this a dead circuit?
they've been promising this technology for years, but it still has yet to pan out. the amount of noise that exists on a power line is insurmountable. turn on a light, a hair drier, a microwave... you'll have all the same problems that IP based networks have with diplaying video - delays, dropped packets, cross-traffic issues, in a nutshell... no QoS.
these guys are all in a lab using canned setups with no real world experience. I bet you can easily double their come-to-market date once they start trying to beta test in homes.