Sony's "TransferJet" to Take on Bluetooth 3.0

[Jerry Raia]

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/pos...-bluetooth.html

"Never one to settle for an open standard when the opportunity to push a proprietary alternative presents itself, Sony has announced that it will wade into the next-generation short-range interconnect wars with a proprietary new wireless spec called "TransferJet." Sony's proposed TransferJet spec has a physical peak transmission rate of 560Mbps and would appear to compete directly with short- and medium-range ultrawideband-based offerings like wireless USB (W-USB) and the next generation of Bluetooth technology. But in spite of any similarities to either W-USB or Bluetooth 3.0, both of which are based on the same WiMedia radio technology and promise transfer speeds in the 480Mbps range, Sony's TransferJet has some distinguishing characteristics that set it apart from the pack."

I sure hope "TransferJet" works better than it did at the demonstration of it I saw at CES. I took this picture below when the experiment seized up.

The camera at the right was supposed to be transferring data at warp speed. The blue screen though tells a different story. "It's great when it works." was the recovery offered. Seriously though why does Sony always come up with things that are non-standard? In age where all most of us want is one type of USB connector, this just throws more gasoline on the fire. Well if it worked for the Memory Stick I guess it can work here.

[Jerry Raia]

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/pos...-bluetooth.html

"Never one to settle for an open standard when the opportunity to push a proprietary alternative presents itself, Sony has announced that it will wade into the next-generation short-range interconnect wars with a proprietary new wireless spec called "TransferJet." Sony's proposed TransferJet spec has a physical peak transmission rate of 560Mbps and would appear to compete directly with short- and medium-range ultrawideband-based offerings like wireless USB (W-USB) and the next generation of Bluetooth technology. But in spite of any similarities to either W-USB or Bluetooth 3.0, both of which are based on the same WiMedia radio technology and promise transfer speeds in the 480Mbps range, Sony's TransferJet has some distinguishing characteristics that set it apart from the pack."

I sure hope "TransferJet" works better than it did at the demonstration of it I saw at CES. I took this picture below when the experiment seized up.

The camera at the right was supposed to be transferring data at warp speed. The blue screen though tells a different story. "It's great when it works." was the recovery offered. Seriously though why does Sony always come up with things that are non-standard? In age where all most of us want is one type of USB connector, this just throws more gasoline on the fire. Well if it worked for the Memory Stick I guess it can work here.

[kerrins]

This is why I won't buy Sony equipment. Designs and concepts are really cool...just not worth have equipment that's incompatible with the rest of the house.