“A new wireless HD video standard guarantees that major brands including Sony, Sharp, Hitachi, Samsung and Motorola will have interoperable wireless video streaming. Amimom—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 standardize 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.” (source: Gizmodo)
This is important for Apple. We know they are working hard to get into the livingroom of their customers, with their AppleTV box and their world-class suite of software that allows any Mac user to own the production process for making videos, transfering them to another media, and for capturing their favorite shows in real time. Add to this the TiVo-like capabilities of record, rewind and fast forward to normal broadcast television, and Apple almost has the standard for video streaming and wireless connectivity wrapped up.
So, what are they going to do with this new ‘other’ WHDI standard from their competitors? Will they join WHDI themselves, after being univited to the party? Or will Apple continue to make their own standard in their own world of excellent and awesome hardware and software? The ramifications of this decision for Apple could affect the video market for years to come.
What do you think?
Regards,
Roger Born
Written from my new mini Mac netbook – not!
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