ETSI, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, says that the MIMO version of HomePlug, combined with HEVC encoded video, “will facilitate the distribution of UHD video-on-demand and 4K video streaming, linking home network gateways (DSL, cable, satellite and fiber to the home) to 4K UHD receiving devices (smart TV sets, set-tops etc). Really the statement should be attributed to the ETSI Powerline working group, which put together a paper which suggests what is required from a Home Networking system for UHD was a sustained real world performance of 80 Mbps, for 10 or 12 bit color with 60 frames per second UHD. The chart below shows the real world performance attributed to the original AV version of Homeplug, plus AV2 in…