WHDI (Wireless Home Digital Interface) creator AMIMON has joined forces with Motorola, Samsung, Sony and Sharp in order to form “a special interest group to develop a comprehensive new industry standard for multi-room audio, video and control connectivity”.
The group will have a standard completed before 2009 and a key ingredient of WHDI technology is a revolutionary video-modem that operates in the 5GHz unlicensed band to enable robust wireless delivery of uncompressed HD video (including 1080p). WHDI allows secure, encrypted HD video delivery through multiple rooms and other potential signal obstructions, such as people and furniture, while maintaining superb quality and robustness with less than one-millisecond latency.
Dr. David Lee, the founder of the HDMI™ standard and a member of AMIMON’s board of directors commented “WHDI technology complements other wireless and wired standards with a new class of connectivity within the home,WHDI’s connectivity matrix introduces to consumers new possibilities to enjoy their high-definition entertainment network.”
The main objective of this special interest group is to enhance the current WHDI technology to enable wireless streaming of uncompressed HD video and audio between CE devices such as LCD and plasma HDTVs, multimedia projectors, A/V receivers, DVD and BD players, set-top boxes (STBs), game consoles, and PCs. The new standard aims to ensure that devices manufactured by different companies will simply and directly connect to one another.