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Now this is an interesting article!

Here is the SEVU related paragraph:

So what kind of networks will be the norm in the home? The possibilities are diverse, based on phone lines, power lines, wireless and new wiring. So far the only answer is “Yes.” It’s basically a tradeoff between ease of setup and obtainable rate. At the high end, Sony is pushing Fire Wire (IEEE 1394), which has 400-Mbps capacity and can handle digital video, uncompressed. In this case new coax must be installed, but it’s a great way to push video from a single digital VCR (when it arrives) to multiple sets. The Universal Serial Bus (USB) is becoming commonplace on computers and will be useful to attach printers and cable modems, but its capability falls short of digital video needs. As millions of instructions per second (MIPS) become billions of instructions per second (GIPS), this will begin to look shortsighted; for a few dollars more every computer could have Fire Wire, which is a lot more future-proof.

http://www.telecoms-mag.com/issues/199909/tcs/highway.html

Here is another good one:

Gates says digital video cameras will hang off most future PCs, and 3Com, which sells one, shares that digital vision.

"People are geographically spread out, but the Internet has broken those geographic barriers," says Anna Pappas, network devices product line marketing manager for 3Com. A digital camera literally puts a picture on Internet communication.

Video cameras will also be popular as security systems, she adds. You may remotely monitor a room using a home-networked video camera connected to the Internet.

And once digital video is standard on PCs, you'll have built-in software and a processor with the horsepower to easily edit it. For example, Microsoft's Windows Millennium Edition will ship with Movie Maker for simple video editing. And Sony's latest desktop already comes with MovieShaker, aimed at consumers.

http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/05/05/pc.shape.idg/

I have a feeling SEVU is not the only video over power line canera. IMO

JP