Sharp to Bring You One Step Closer to Making Your HD Set-Up Completely Wireless

Finally, news that any high definition enthusiast can get excited over!

AMIMON Inc. has partnered with LCD TV manufacturer Sharp Corporation to offer a wireless HDTV link via WHDI for the Sharp X-Series ultra-thin LCD TVs. This technology is hopefully the first step in making all your home theatre equipment completely wireless. Unfortunately, you will still need all those chords for a while longer yet, as you will have to plug them in to a video modem created by AMIMON Inc. The video modem then wirelessly transmits the HDMI signal to the Sharp X-Series TV.

Currently, there are 3 different transmission standards for all planned wireless HDMI devices.

WHDI (Wireless High-Definition Interface) has a maximum bandwidth of 3 gigabytes per second and is possibly the most promising of the 3. It has enough bandwidth to transmit an uncompressed HD video signal up to 100 feet, through walls.

UWB (Ultra-Wideband) currently has a transmission speed of 65 megabits per second. This is fast enough to transmit compressed HD video at 60 frames per second, but only has about a 30 foot range and can’t transmit through walls.

WiHD (Wireless HD) is expected to be able to transmit 4 gigabits per second, with up to 6 times that speed in the future. Like WHDI, it will also transmit an uncompressed HD video signal through walls, but only has a 30 foot range similar to UWB.

Hopefully, this will be the first of many products to come. It would be great to see this become the standard for HDTV’s as well as the rest of the home theatre components in the future. Just imagine having your Blu-Ray player, HD cable or satellite box, video game systems, and even your computer wirelessly hooked up to your receiver for glorious surround sound. Then having your receiver hooked up to your HDTV wirelessly as well with nothing but power chords to worry about!

What do you think? Does this technology have a chance to become the standard in high definition television?