I was in Sarah's parents basement the other day when I saw their pile of wires connecting from the place where the cable line came into the house. I noticed that with the advent of cable modems and wireless networks that the inbound cable wire was connecting into a modem-802.11 router. The wire then made a line up into the house to connect to every location where a television might be located. Each television needed to have it's own box.

So I got to thinking about it that the wire doesn't need to go any further than the basement if a wireless network was powerful enough and the TVs were hooked up to devices that could show the content streaming from the basement. I was thinking of a wireless television system where the smarts of the television stay in the basement as a server able to serve-up television to any wireless device in the house able to consume a fast wireless protocol. The advantages of doing this would be to get rid of one more set of annoying wires, to reduce the cost of high-end hardware attached to each television, to centralize functions like TIVO recording, and make television available to standard PC computers with cable local television decoders. The main product would be this basement router plus the decoding / subscriber units to connect to televisions. The system would also work for satellite dishes that sit on rooftops and are tricky to link via wires to where the televisions reside. Anyone interested in building this into a multi-million dollar company... you know where to find me.

Meanwhile I realize the big problem is that my wireless network itself is still very unreliable and I can't post pictures to the web from my camera at the moment because the machine I usually do it from is no longer connected to my wireless network for some stupid reason.