WHDI Reviews – Wireless HDTV News

If you have been looking at the wireless HD market, it is hard to miss that the things have slowed down since the beginning. The market is simply not growing. The wireless chip vendors have thus slowed down development and are looking for ways to recover their initial investment. But, it looks like their fate will change soon. A report from researchers at In-Stat suggests that the market is going to progress to a triple digit growth rate in the next five years.

In a report about the next five years of the Wireless HD market, analysts have predicted that the industry will go through a massive growth spurt in the year 2014. At that time they are expected to have a triple digit growth rate in the Wireless HD enabled devices. From the current shipment rates of less than 1 million per year, the report forecasts a growth to about 13 million per year, which is a phenomenal amount of growth statistically but for an entire industry and with the base figure — it is actually not all that much.

The report suggests that the technology is still far from hitting the sweet spot of the market but still it suggests that the long-term growth potential is pretty good for the market.  The main drawbacks of the current iterations of the technology revolve around the performance and the price. The ratio between them is very unfavorable for the market at the moment.

Also mentioned in the report are forecasts for both WirelessHD (SiBeam) and WHDI (Amimon) to grow at triple-digit annual percentage rates through 2014. Both WHDI And WirelessHD chip ASP’s are expected to fall 25% annually through 2014.

In the meantime, alternatives like versions of WiFi (WiFi n being the latest), Intel’s [NASDAQ:INTC] WiDi (Wireless Display) and Sony’s [NYSE:SNE] TransferJet are competing for marketshare. So whatever the current scenario is, almost everybody in the consumer electronics and personal computing segment are pushing for wireless HD audio/video transfer technologies for a fully wireless future

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