About WirelessHD®

Broadcom Corporation, Intel Corporation, LG Electronics Inc., NEC Corporation,Panasonic Corporation, Philips Electronics, SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD, SiBEAM, Inc., Sony Corporation and Toshiba Corporation, have joined together to form the WirelessHD Consortium, an industry-led effort to define a worldwide standard specification for the next generation wireless digital network interface specification for consumer electronics and personal computing products. The WirelessHD specification has been available since January 2008 and includes the following attributes:

• High interoperability supported by major CE device and technology manufacturers
• Highest quality HD video, audio and data transmission, scalable to future high-definition A/V formats
• High-speed wireless, multi-gigabit technology in the unlicensed 60 GHz band
• Smart antenna technology for reliable non-line-of-sight operation
• Secure communications with DTCP and HDCP over WirelessHD technology
• Device control for simple operation of consumer electronics products using the basic remote control that ships with the TV
• Error protection, framing and timing control techniques for a quality consumer experience
• Low power options for mobile devices
  

Why WirelessHD?

The WirelessHD wireless digital interface is the first and only global specification to combine uncompressed high-definition video, multi-channel audio, intelligent format and control data, and Hollywood approved standard content protection techniques. For end-users, elimination of cables for audio and video dramatically simplifies home theater system installation and eliminates the traditional need to locate source devices in the proximity of the display. Also, the technology will support the development of adapter solutions that will be capable of supporting legacy systems.

The WirelessHD specification has been architected and optimized for wireless display connectivity, achieving in its first generation implementation high-speed rates up to 4 Gbps at ten meters for the consumer electronics, personal computing and portable device products. Its core technology, based on the 60 GHz millimeter wave frequency band, promotes theoretical data rates as high as 25 Gbps, permitting it to scale to higher resolutions, color depth, and range.

Finally, with WirelessHD technology, consumers can easily create a wireless video area network (WVAN) by just ‘flipping a switch,’ and turning on their device. The intelligent device control system automatically discovers each device in the WirelessHD network and may be controlled by a standard remote control.