Major Players Join Forces on Wireless HD Standard

When it comes to new technology standards, it seems the major players all go in their own direction. Well it appears there may be some teamwork at play with an Wireless HD Standard. According to Engadget:

WHDI creator AMIMON has joined forces with Motorola, Samsung, Sony and Sharp in order to form "a special interest group to develop a comprehensive new industry standard for multi-room audio, video and control connectivity" utilizing the aforementioned Wireless Home Digital Interface technology. Reportedly, the group will have a standard completed before 2009 dawns, but we all know how easily these things can get pushed under the rug.

We agree the standard probably won't be ready by 2009 but we're excited to see some progress towards a standard.

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Belkin FlyWire Streams HD Video Without Wires

Now that CES is getting closer we are seeing more articles come out revealing some of what we can expect. One that caught our eye is this FlyWire Wireless HD Streaming device from Belkin. This will let you attach up to 6 different HDMI sources to it and it will stream them to the receiver box that is attached to your HDTV. We have been seeing a lot of products lately that have freed the TV from the entertainment center and it looks like a trend that will only continue in 2008. We love the idea of being able to put the TV anywhere we want and not having to worry about fitting it around where we have our entertainment center. We don't have a lot of info just yet, but with CES creeping closer expect Belkin to let some info trickle out.

via engadget