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One-third of Americans streamed a movie or TV show on Netflix, Hulu, Vudu, Crackle or another Net-based video service

Given that consumers store their entire lives on tablets and smartphones – from games to movies to pictures – creating a simple way to project mobile content onto the big screen is an essential capability of the digital home.

To enable seamless Internet searching, HD viewing and wireless gaming, retrofitting the digital home with superior wireless solutions is a critical step in delivering a superior mobile experience.

Wi-Fi is one of the most ubiquitous wireless communications technologies in use today, primarily because it is easy to install, easy to use and inexpensive. Wi-Fi was originally designed as a way of extending internet connections wirelessly within an enterprise. However people soon began installing Wi-Fi Access Points at home and in public Hotspots to give convenient internet access to laptops, which ended up with Wi-Fi chips installed as standard. Today there are hundreds of millions of devices which use Wi-Fi including tablets, smart phones, TVs and set tops. There are millions of public hotspots and many hundreds of millions of home and enterprise access points. The Wi-name Fi is reserved for the IEEE 802.11 standards – so far A, B, G and N, with more on the way, and use 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz unlicensed spectrum bands, with more being considered up to 60 GHz. Wi-Fi today is managed and policed by the Wi-Fi Alliance. Wi-Fi reach varies with the power of the signal and the spectrum used, but will typically reach a few hundred feet and current generation devices will provide between 50 Mbps and a 100 Mbps shared between connected users.

A Wireless Home Theater or Entertainment system can refer to setup that simply has a set of wireless surround sound speakers to a system that incorporates wireless home networking.

One new development that is getting attention as a practical wireless solution for home theater is employing a wireless powered subwoofer.

Bluetooth technology has impacted the way consumers connect portable devices, such as headsets for cell phones. However, with the advent of wireless technology for home entertainment, Bluetooth is also a method for wireless connectivity in home theater systems.

When mobile entertainment finally arrived and began to gain a greater audience, carriers started to push back for fear of how these apps would impact the network. Up until this point in the U.S. market, carriers had essentially controlled which apps would be allowed to run freely on their network.

As smart phones became more powerful, particularly with the launch of Apple Inc.’s first iPhone, and social media began to really catch on, a general chant for open access to whatever consumers wanted to do on their mobile device was at a high point. A new world of mobile media seemed to converge all at once.

New Wi-Fi technology called Miracast (along with others shown at CES) will allow for the easy wireless transmission of a video or live game from a smartphone to a large TV display. Major players, including Apple, will almost certainly pick up on that.