Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I just moved into a new apartment and have been reading about all of the new power strips out there, especially the green ones. I was wondering if you had any suggestions about which "green "power strips are out there with decent joules ratings. And when I say green, I mean power strips that have the remotes or switches to turn off all electricity flowing to certain plugs and with at least 2 plugs that are always on. I was looking specifically at sub $50 because I will need two, but if that is not possible I could be convinced otherwise. Thanks!"
If this pans out, it could be huge. Imagine integrating these chips into CE devices...
You have to imagine every vendor wants the cost of manufacturing their product as low as possible. If they can either install an HDMI port for oh-so-many dollars or build this into it for even 3x oh-so-many dollars, I would imagine they'll go with HDMI only and just leave it on the consumer to buy the "sub $50 cost per device" units if they want them. Speaking of which, "cost" isn't the word usually used for the price to consumers so depending on where that picture is from and who the audience was, this could be an expensive addition to a CE device.
It'd be great to see this sort of thing catch on just because but you'll see more competitors before you see many major CE manufacturers building them into things. And if only one or two build them in, their products are now more expensive. The silly part? I would think the part that plugs into the television takes up a video plug anyway so it's only valuable if you really want that device somewhere other than beside your television. It's great tech though but better as standalone. (Or be sure it's built into TVs first...?)
And for anyone who might want to hit me with "economies of scale" and how this won't be that pricey if enough CE manufacturers use them, just remember that no matter how low the price is, it's still cheaper not to use them and, so far, not having these has worked out just fine.
It seems rather silly, no? I mean, MPEG-2 1080i/720P is about 19.2 Mbps compressed. If you go 1080P and use MPEG-4 (h.264) its about the same. an UWB providing 480Mbps wireless transmission can only transmit compressed streams as uncompressed is on the order of 1-2 Gbps.
I think I will stick with my $7-15 15-foot HDMI cables from Monoproce.