New Wireless HD A/V Consortium

Filed under: Home Audio



According to a report by the AP, Sony, Samsung, Hitachi, Motorola, and Sharp have joined with an Israeli company called Amimon in a special consortium to develop an industry standard for multi-room wireless uncompressed HD audio and video streaming, using Amimon's Wireless Home Digital Interface (WHDI) technology. The goal of the group is to develop an interoperable standard so that products from different brands can wirelessly connect to each other.

WHDI operates on the 5Ghz band, and uses a technology that is claimed to prioritize "critical" portions of an HD video signal over less important portions to preserve precious bandwidth. Unfortunately, while WHDI doesn't use compression, the image quality it's able to produce is inversely proportional to the distance the signal has to travel. Samsung claims that they will drop WHDI when the superior 60GHz WirelessHD format is ready for primetime.