WHDI’s Viability In A Market Full Of Competition
The recent series of demonstrations that Amimon conducted of their WHDI dongle, made sure that a lot more people are now playing close attention to WHDI’s development in the newly emergent Wireless HD video content streaming market.
The renewed effort from Amimon to make technology popular has highlighted the fact that it is in fact very flexible in how it works and that it is also extremely capable at replacing wired HDMI connections. In a direct parallel to the disastrous lag issues in Intel’s WiDi (based on the WiFi Plus standard), the WHDI protocol has almost no lag at all for human beings.
Whilst WiDi has a latency problem that goes into about half a second, making it is very notcieable, Amimon claims that WHDI has a latency that is actually below 1 millisecond that makes it impossible for a human being to detect. The reason being cited here is that video content over Intel’s [NASDAQ:INTC] WiDi has to go through constant compression whilst WHDI transmit the actual HDMI signal directly.
The direct transmission of HDMI also ensures that WHDI can plug into almost any HDMI out, no matter what device it is coming out from. Adding this to the fact that it can also play back HDCP (High-band Digital Content Protection) protected content, makes it a very good choice over WiDi for both users as well as manufacturers.
In the meantime, WiGig and WirelessHD have not been making much noise lately. That means that they might be the next ones out with some new developments. The whole market has come a long way since when wireless streaming used to be only available for very high end products and was still very experimental. With WHDI and the others, it will become quite the common thing everywhere.
Date: October 9, 2010
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