Unmanned aerial vehicles now HD equipped
By Richard Lawler 
posted May 4th 2006 5:03PM
posted May 4th 2006 5:03PM
Sure you can stream HD wirelessly to your Xbox 360 over 802.11a, but now that Allied Defense group has demonstrated streaming 1080i high-def from a UAV 2,000 feet in the air that doesn't seem so impressive does it? The Global Microwave Systems "High-Definition Messenger Link" claims to be the smallest microwave HD transmitter in the world and is intended for use not only in covert situations, but also for movie and television production.
You can download the WMV recorded during the demo here. Great, now not only are they watching you, but they know your belt and shoes don't match from a mile away.
Anyone else see something weird in that article. First of all it says "GMS plans to provide HD-DVD’, upon request, when the technology is made available in summer of 2006." That article was publish (at least by the date on top) last month. I know a lot didn't change for them to have to say HD-DVD will be available over summer.
Second thing I noticed was that it said "To appreciate the full quality of this video an HD-DVD will be required." I know it says that the video is compressed but to me that seems like they are saying even if we gave you the uncompressed version of the video, a HD-DVD would still be better.
All this misinformation makes me sick to my stomache.
Rothgar, maybe they are talking about recordable HD-DVDs being out in the summer. They may not have access to a pressing plant so they would need to burn HD-DVD-Rs or whatever.