Sony and Samsung have become members of an HD consortium that is working to send HD video signals wirelessly from a single Set-top box (STB) wirelessly to screens placed aroundthe home. The new consortium will consist of Sony, Samsung, Motorola, Sharp, and Hitatchi – and will develop a standard around tech from a company called Amimon – which they are calling WHDI (Wireless Home Digital Interface).
As many of you will know that have tried to stream video, and perhaps HD video around your home, it’s actually reasonably difficult due to the super-high bandwidth requirements – added to the fact that video “data” must be delivered on-time, consistently in order, for the user experience not to suffer. Personally, I’ve reverted to the new revisions of powerline networking, which supports up to 200Mb/s transfer rate (in a newly-wired property), to satisfy the need for transiting video around.
Anyhow, let’s wait and see what this WHDI standard comes up with – you can expect reasonably about 12 months delay before hardware starts appearing – once that’s in, then you gotta buy it, and probably upgrade/tweak the wireless devices in your house!
[Via: news.cn]