Practically everyone has cursed the hoard of cables computers and other home electronics have a tendency to create and wireless transfers for all kind of signals is something most people dream about. From what it seems even the manufacturers does, as they’ve now started up a group that will work with developing a wireless interface for transferring high-res audio and video between different home electronics. The interface is called WirelessHD or WiHD and is suppose to use the 60GHz frequency band and is expected to be integrated into HDTVs to begin with. The goal is simply to be able to transfer data at a rate of several gigabit per second and the interface is suppose to scale in the future when we get other audio and video formats.
“Emerging as the first consumer electronics industry initiative for wireless uncompressed digital video transmission, WirelessHD will provide consumers wireless flexibility and ease of use while preserving the benefits traditionally associated with popular wired alternatives for point-to-point display, such as HDMI and DVI,”
We see today that companies like LG, Matsushita (Panasonic), NEC, Samsung, SiBeam, Sony and Toshiba are represented in the group that is working on WiHD. We’re really looking forward to more information about WiHD, which seems to be completely separate from Tzero’s wireless HDMI technology, even if the basic idea is very much the same.
