LG Electronics Inc., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic), NEC Corporation, SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS, CO., LTD, SiBEAM, Inc., Sony Corporation and Toshiba Corporation today announced that they are working as a special interest group called WirelessHD to develop a specification for a wireless high-definition digital interface (WirelessHD™ or WiHD™), that is intended to enable high-definition audio video (A/V) streaming and high-speed content transmission for consumer electronics (CE) devices. In addition to actively promoting the new format throughout the industry, WirelessHD will...

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Good idea and has some of the right players providing input. But reality will eventually settle in and politics will start to get a foot hold.

Spring 2007 might bring the first draft but there's just about zero chance of it receiving approval and adoption in that timeframe. By comparison, 802.11n is another standard which could conceivably be an HD answer in the near term, was started in 2003 and once the power struggles started between the players it became silly. Current estimates have the final adoption taking place in perhaps mid 2007 now.

Because this is an overlay to existing wireless standards eventually you have to play ball with the existing big hitters in networking who will all want a piece of the piece of the pie, be it in chips or in having input on the standard. That's where the process will bog down.