Wireless Home Digital Interface spec to enable full 1080p/60Hz HD


Posted by Dennis Sellers Dec 9, 2009 at 5:55pm

The Wireless Home Digital Interface consortium—formed by consumer electronics manufacturers to develop a comprehensive new industry standard for multi-room audio, video and control connectivity utilizing Wireless Home Digital Interface (WHDI) technology—has announced the completion and availability of the WHDI 1.0 specification.

The WHDI standard enables full 1080p/60Hz HD with Deep Color at a distance of 100 feet and through walls. No other wireless standard combines this level of quality and robustness with the ease of multi-room wireless, according to Leslie Chard, president of the WHDI consortium. By doing so, WHDI enables consumers to build a wireless HD network in the home to take advantage of the latest content and interactive services, he adds.

WHDI is a standard for the wireless, multi-room distribution of HD video, enabling manufacturers to deliver higher value added devices that can connect the increasing number of HD sources (CE, computers and mobile devices) to TVs around the home. The WHDI standard ensures that by purchasing products with the WHDI logo, consumers will be able to bring home devices from different manufacturers that will simply and directly connect to one another and deliver HD content and services without the need for complicated and expensive wiring, says Chard.

The WHDI provides an uncompressed wireless link that supports the delivery of equivalent video data rates of up to 3Gbps (including 1080p/60Hz) in a 40MHz channel in the 5GHz unlicensed band, conforming to worldwide 5GHz spectrum regulations. Range is beyond 100 feet, through walls, and latency is less than one millisecond. Additionally, WHDI relies on HDCP revision 2.0 to provide superior Hollywood-approved security and digital content protection.

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