WHDi: Wireless HD video demoed

By Erica Ogg on 24 October 2008, 10:59am

After two years of telling us, makers of wireless HD video systems are now showing us how this works in actual products.

There are two competing standards: WirelessHD (check out a demonstration here) and WHDi.

Noam Geri, VP of marketing for Amimon, the chip company behind the WHDi wireless standard, gives a brief overview in the video below.

WHDi is already in use around the world. Sharp is selling a wireless video adaptor for its Aquos X-series LCD TV in Japan already, and Sony is selling a WHDi-enabled Bravia in Japan and Europe, the EX1.

More recently, Mitsubishi said it would be using WHDi, which sends uncompressed, high-definition video signals over the unlicensed 5GHz band throughout an entire home, in a wireless TV it's making for the Japanese market this autumn.

Besides TVs, companies such as Belkin and Gefen are also making wireless transmitter/receivers for multiple audio and video sources using Amimon's chipset.

Belkin's FlyWire was originally due in October, but has been pushed back to January, where it will have plenty of company at CES. The people behind both the WHDi and WirelessHD standards say there will be many more companies showing products for the US market at the super-size electronics show.

Here, Geri shows off a Blu-ray Disc of Lost displaying wirelessly on a Samsung monitor at a speed of 1.5Gbps.