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Wide-Scale Wireless HDMI Is Almost Here

MIMON announces Wireless High-definition Interface (WHDI) chipset

Aug 28, 2007 12:46 GMT  ·  By
  

HDMI is quite clearly one of the most important (if not the most important) data transfer interfaces nowadays and is surely to become even more popular in the future, due to the very high data transfer speeds it can assure. However, it would seem that even "normal", wired HDMI is about to become obsolete, as an Israeli company called Mimon has announced the development of a Wireless High-definition Interface (WHDI) chipset, which enables CE display and device manufacturers to develop home entertainment products that connect wirelessly.

Thus, the company's WHDI chipset can be embedded into such devices as LCD and plasma HDTVs, multimedia projectors, A/V receivers, DVD players (HD-DVD and Blu-ray), set-top boxes (STBs), game consoles, PCs and HD video accessories (wireless for HDMI dongles), allowing wireless streaming of uncompressed HD video and audio.

AMIMON's WHDI makes it possible for a wireless whole-home HD video connectivity net that allows the devices to share HD content throughout the entire home, up to 30 meters (100 feet) through walls, while maintaining superb, wire-equivalent quality and robustness with no latency. WHDI is the only uncompressed wireless technology with the capability of covering the entire home.

AMIMON's WHDI technology is based on a unique video modem approach. WHDI supports delivery of uncompressed 1080p (with equivalent video rates of up to 3 Gbps) in a 40MHz channel in the 5GHz unlicensed band, in compliance with FCC regulations. Uncompressed 720p, 1080i and 1080p 24/30p (with equivalent video rates of up to 1.5 Gbps) can be delivered in a 20MHz channel, conforming to worldwide 5GHz regulations. Range is beyond 100 feet through walls (entire home) and latency is less than 1 millisecond.

"With WHDI chipsets in hand, CE manufacturers will now be able to offer consumers wireless HDTVs and other HD wireless video devices based on the WHDI standard," said Noam Geri, vice president of marketing and business development at AMIMON. "Consumers should see initial WHDI-based products at the end of this year, with a wide variety of WHDI-based CE products available in 2008" he added.

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