The Times of India
Consumer-electronics heavyweights are uniting to support a technology that could send high-definition video signals wirelessly from a single set-top box to screens around the home.
The consortium due to be announced on Wednesday is an important development in the race to create a definitive way to replace tangles of video cables, but doesn't end it - both Sony and Samsung are also supporting a competing technology.
In the new consortium, Sony Corp and Samsung Electronics Co, along with Motorola Inc, Sharp Corp and Hitachi Ltd, will develop an industry standard around technology from Amimon Ltd of Israel called WHDI, for Wireless Home Digital Interface.
"If you have a TV in the home, that TV will be able to access any source in the home, whether it's a set-top box in the living room, or the PlayStation in the bedroom, or a DVD player in another bedroom. That's the message of WHDI," said Noam Geri, co-founder of Amimon. It is already selling chips that fulfill part of that promise, but the creation of a broad industry group makes it more likely that consumers will be able to buy WHDI-enabled devices from different manufacturers and have them all work together.
Geri expects TVs with Amimon's chips to reach stores next year, costing about $100 more than equivalent, non-wireless TVs.
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