They All Agree: The Next Wave of Wireless Audio/Video Connectivity is WHDI

Whether it be Sony, Hitachi, Samsung or Sharp, all of these big name corporations have one thing in common: they are all interested in developing a new industry standard for multi-room implementation control of your audio and video needs via Wireless Home Digital Interface (WHDI™) technology. Their goal is to have it all ready by the end of 2008.

"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.

The 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 interoperable standard aims to ensure that CE devices manufactured by different vendors will simply and directly connect to one another."

[via eHomeUpgrade]