Sony, Hitachi, Motorola, Samsung Electronics and Sharp have all got together to set up an joint industry development body to bring the Wireless Home Digital Interface (WHDI) as a standard by the end of this year.

What the flip is WHDI? Well, according to the Israel-based Amimon company on whose technology the standard is to be based, "A key ingredient of WHDI technology is a revolutionary video-modem that operates in the 5GHz unlicensed band to enable robust wireless delivery of uncompressed HD video (including 1080p).

"WHDI allows secure, encrypted HD video delivery through multiple rooms and other potential signal obstructions, such as people and furniture, while maintaining superb quality and robustness with less than one-millisecond latency."

Sitting on the board of Amimon is Dr. David Lee, the founder of the HDMI standard, so this looks like more than hot air.

According to information provided by the nascent group, "The objective of this special interest group is to enhance the current WHDI technology to enable wireless streaming of uncompressed HD video and audio between consumer electronics (CE) devices such as LCD and plasma HDTVs, multimedia projectors, A/V receivers, DVD and BD players, set-top boxes (STBs), game consoles, and PCs. The new interoperable standard aims to ensure that CE devices manufactured by different vendors will simply and directly connect to one another."

Of course, with the all-new, Sir Howard Stringer inspired joined-up Sony Corp, the PlayStation 3 is front and centre. According to Noam Geri, co-founder of Amimon, "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."

You can even see a little old PS3 sucking in WHDI signals in the movie below from Amimon.

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