WHDI makes HDMI cables invisible for the Living Room

WHDI (Wireless Home Digital Interface) is a standard created by Israeli company AMIMON. The company refers to WHDI as a video modem technology that can send HD video signals around the entire home, not simply within a room. WHDI bears similarities to 802.11n and uses 5GHz narrow band technology. AMIMON began shipping silicon in 2008, and has announced design wins with Sharp, Sony, and Mitsubishi for digital TVs.

While other big names are still taking a wait-and-see approach, GONBES TECH of China, has already started mass production and shipping their GBS-330 based on the WHDI technology for the Chinese audio-video market. The new GBS-330 promises wireless video transmission at 1080p/60Hz quality for multi-rooms up to 30m range with a lag time less than 1ms. It also supports HDCP 2.0 and encrypted content.

According to IT168, a well-known IT review site in China, the review on the GBS-330 looks all positive and promising. The review has covered the gaming on PS3 and Blu-ray movies playback and their conclusion is that the GBS-330 has brought the WHDI technology to reality and basically no manual settings are required as it works out of the box. The SRP of the GBS-330 is RMB4000 or US$550.

The main selling points of WHDI are that you don't have to invest in an expensive 10m~20m HDMI cable and you still can enjoy equivalent picture quality while reducing cable clutter.

(source: http://www.wirelessdesignasia.com/article-10558-wirelesshdvideotransmissionwhdi60ghzuwbandwifiinthemixforthenextgenlivingroom-Asia.html, http://mst.it168.com/a2009/1019/762/000000762814_5.shtml, http://www.gonbes.com/about.asp )