Wired vs. Wireless Multimedia Connectivity
HDMI 1.3 and DisplayPort 1.0 deliver 10.2Gbps and 10.8Gbps respectively to meet the uncompressed bandwidth demands of 1080p and beyond, driven by rising screen resolutions up to WQUXGA (3840x2400), deeper colour depths of 36-48 bits, and 120Hz frame rates. Wireless alternatives fall short: UWB peaks at 2.6Gbps and 60GHz reaches only 7.2Gbps using QAM64 with 3/4-rate Viterbi encoding, neither sufficient for uncompressed, HDCP-protected HD content. For consumers, copper remains the only practical path to full-quality HD connectivity, while wireless is limited to compressed or lower-resolution video applications.
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