Four top consumer-electronic companies are backing a wireless multimedia CE interface developed by Amimon, by forming a special interest group devoted to the technology.
Hitachi, Motorola, Samsung, Sharp and Sony, together with Amimon, have formed the Wireless Home Digital Interface SIG, designed to develop products based around Amimons 5-GHz wireless technology.
The technology has already been proven; Sharp began shipping an Amimon-based wireless HDTV in Japan earlier this year, about eight months after Amimon shipped its first product. Motorola took a stake in Amimon in 2007.
Amimon uses the same 5-GHz unlicensed band of spectrum as 802.11a, although its WHDI technology uses its own protocols. The company claims that it can use two 20-MHz channels to transmit 1080p video wirelessly 100 feet, through walls.
Last year, Sanyo demonstrated a wireless projector using the chipset, and three more OEMs demonstrated WHDI-based TVs: Loewe, XOCECO, and Funai. The latter company serves as an ODM for top brands including Mitsubishi and Philips.
All of those TVs, however, will be using what Noam Geri, Amimons vice president of marketing, calls "pre-standard" technology. In 2008, the SIG companies will agree on a standard, which will then be put into production next year, Geri said. There will be a logo that will be used to identify compatible components: "Without a connector, the logo will be the only way the consumer can tell that they will interoperate," Geri said.
Participation in the SIG is not a guarantee that an OEM will build a set based upon the technology, Geri acknowledged. But he said that the companies involved, especially Samsung, have been some of the most aggressive in adopting new technology. "There are no guarantees, but there are indications," he said.
Geri also said that Amimon is working with several notebook PC manufacturers to develop wireless links between the notebook and the PC. When asked if those firms were members of the SIG, Geri replied, "Not necessarily."
Hitachi, Motorola, Samsung, Sharp and Sony, together with Amimon, have formed the Wireless Home Digital Interface SIG, designed to develop products based around Amimons 5-GHz wireless technology.
The technology has already been proven; Sharp began shipping an Amimon-based wireless HDTV in Japan earlier this year, about eight months after Amimon shipped its first product. Motorola took a stake in Amimon in 2007.
Amimon uses the same 5-GHz unlicensed band of spectrum as 802.11a, although its WHDI technology uses its own protocols. The company claims that it can use two 20-MHz channels to transmit 1080p video wirelessly 100 feet, through walls.
Last year, Sanyo demonstrated a wireless projector using the chipset, and three more OEMs demonstrated WHDI-based TVs: Loewe, XOCECO, and Funai. The latter company serves as an ODM for top brands including Mitsubishi and Philips.
All of those TVs, however, will be using what Noam Geri, Amimons vice president of marketing, calls "pre-standard" technology. In 2008, the SIG companies will agree on a standard, which will then be put into production next year, Geri said. There will be a logo that will be used to identify compatible components: "Without a connector, the logo will be the only way the consumer can tell that they will interoperate," Geri said.
Participation in the SIG is not a guarantee that an OEM will build a set based upon the technology, Geri acknowledged. But he said that the companies involved, especially Samsung, have been some of the most aggressive in adopting new technology. "There are no guarantees, but there are indications," he said.
Geri also said that Amimon is working with several notebook PC manufacturers to develop wireless links between the notebook and the PC. When asked if those firms were members of the SIG, Geri replied, "Not necessarily."
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