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	            <title><![CDATA[Comment - Plastic Optical Fiber: Has POF gone poof?: POF goes Poof]]></title>
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	            	            Joshua,

We have both seen many standards come and go over the years.  It is hard to predict what will catch on and when there are two competing solutions to the same issue, typically one falls by the way side.  Even when a solution may be technically better, such as Fiber over Copper, that does not guarantee success, especially in the consumer space.  When something better is offered, like POF, but it does not catch on with in a reasonable time frame, there will often be something newer still that trumps it, and in this case I think that will be wireless.  I don’t know about professional installations, but what drives standards is volume and for that you need to look at consumer products.  I expect that the new wireless solutions for HDTV will catch on in a big way because my wife hates the ugly mess of cables that is behind our TV and from an esthetic perspective, a cable is a cable. 

Gary
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                <pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:11:58 -0600</pubDate>
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