WHDI: World-changing wireless HDTV to become standard

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Imagine watching any HD video wirelessly from any Blu-ray player, PC, TiVo, set-top box, video camera, Xbox — any video source, anywhere in your house, up to 100 feet away. Now add the ability to instantly control that video from wherever you’re watching it. That’s what WHDI (wireless high definition interface) can do. Today a group of the largest consumer electronics companies in the world are agreeing to standardize this new way of moving wireless high-resolution uncompressed video, so that all their products with the WHDI logo will be interoperable. They say we’ll start seeing a variety of products with this WHDI technology built in by 2009.
The revolution has already started. The idea is the brainchild of Amimon, an Israeli company that’s figured out how to move the highest-resolution video around with no added noise, no annoying waiting after you push the Play button, and eventually, low cost. We’ve already seen products demonstrated using WHDI, including a TV from Sharp now shipping in Japan, a set-top pair from Belkin set for late 2008 release, and a wireless HDTV demo from Sony at CES 2008 in January. We’ve seen WHDI in action with our own eyes, and we’re here to tell you: It works perfectly. This is going to be big. Really big.


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