Home sweet digital home in 2020

Your own fully digital home in which music and video is streamed between devices? It’s not going to happen within the next 10 to 20 years.

So says John MacFarlane, CEO of Sonos. “Video takes up too much bandwidth to be delivered over current wireless networks. The next wi-fi standard is not ready for the mass market yet.” He added: “TV works. Streaming video does not work successfully right now.”

Our Jetsons fantasy has just been mothballed…

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(source: BBC News)

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