Amimon, some of the masters of wireless video signals, just demoed a 3D HD video signal in prototype. Wireless HDTV signals aren’t all that necessary, and 3D is kind of a joke, but its good to know that if the two go mainstream, we’ll be ready with the tech to support all that. [Techon via Engadget]
Wireless HD is still little more than a carrot dangled in front of rich noses at CES, but Amimon’s WHDI standard is one of the least vaporous, and their new chips improve on the spec.
Be happy: A new wireless HD video standard guarantees that major brands including Sony, Sharp, Hitachi, Samsung and Motorola will have interoperable wireless video streaming. Amimon–the chip makers behind the “video modem” wireless HD tech we’ve been seeing on and off for the last few years, and most recently in Belkin’s Flywire–is announcing the WHDI consortium with the above members, formed to standardise their wireless HD spec and embed it in member companies’ TVs, projectors and HD video sources. The result is a network of HD components, streaming uncompressed 1080p video not just through one room like competing UWB standards, but to and from any source to any TV in your entire home, with a range comparable to Wi-Fi. Pretty impressive stuff.
When we showed you those Sharp X-series ultra-thin LCD TVs recently, we mentioned how Sharp had achieved the slimming down: by putting most of the electronics in a separate box, connected by a single cable. Well, now there’s news that Sharp has teamed up with AMIMON to do away with that cable and transmit the HDTV signal wirelessly to the display from the tuner box. The “WHDI” technology has a range of 100 feet, a latency of less than a millisecond and can transmit through multiple walls. So while the 37-, 42- and 46-inch TVs will now have an optional wireless video transmitter with AMIMON’s tech inside, there’s no info on the price yet. Read on for the full press release.
We saw this Belkin wireless high definition video streamer in a blurry shot, but had little clue what it was. Months ago, we saw an impressive demo by Aminom of true HD over wireless, up to 1080p using a standard called WHDI, but it was nothing more than parts you couldn’t buy. No more. Belkin and Aminom just got together to make this 6 input wireless video device, although details aren’t that forthcoming, this is how it works:
Amimon showed us its WHDI (Wireless High Definition Interface) working perfectly at last January’s CES and today the company is shipping that chipset to manufacturers of TVs, projectors and other consumer electronics products. The chipset enables uncompressed 720p and 1080i video to be transmitted over the 5GHz wireless band, using 20MHz of bandwidth and reaching distances up to 100 feet with the same quality as HDMI cable. Two of the chipsets ganged together send 1080p video wirelessly, using 40MHz of bandwidth. Amimon officials talked with Gizmodo about the cost of this technology and when we’ll be seeing it roll out to consumers. More »
