Tag archive: WHDI

Europe's KFA2—KFA stands for “Kick Friggin' Ass” and is a premium brand of Galaxy—has decided that the Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 is a pretty nice video card—but what would be better is if users didn't have to deal with any cables. To that end, they've melded the GTZ 460 with WHDI technology from Amimon to produce what it's calling the world's first wireless graphics card: the KFA2… Read More

The dark days of tethering your laptop to a three-foot HDMI cable in order to throw a little YouTube, South Park or Hulu up on the big screen may soon be over. And no, the answer is not a $1,500 home theater PC. Amimon unveiled a solution on Tuesday with the WHDI Stick, a wireless HD transmitter that plugs into any computer and transmits full HD signals to a television. The company bills it as the smallest such device on the market, potentially… Read More

Asus certainly won’t be the first company to dabble with wireless HD – we took a look at Iogear’s $900 solution back in July – but with an MSRP of just $199, the upcoming Asus WiCast EW2000 PC may just be one of the most promising for cash-strapped home theater enthusiasts. On Tuesday, Asus announced that it has partnered with Amimon, a member of the WHDI coalition, to provide the essential chips powering the EW2000. Amimon was a founding… Read More

LG says its new Wireless Ready TV product line and Wireless HDTV accessories are based on AMIMON’s Wireless 1080p Solution. LG’s wireless HDTVs are powered by AMIMON’s second generation chipset, AMN2120/2220, which provides high-quality wireless 1080p 60Hz in the 5GHz unlicensed band in the room and in between rooms through walls to create a fully connected home. AMIMON and LG are two of the promoting companies for Wireless Home Digital… Read More

Wireless high-definition developer Amimon has announced that its second-generation transmitter and receiver chips designed for WHDI (Wireless Home Digital Interface) are available to manufacturers now—and they are the first WHDI solution on the market capable of pushing 1080p/60Hz high-definition video content wirelessly throughout a home. The chips operate in the unlicensed 5 GHz radio frequency band and Amimon says devices using the… Read More

WHDI developer Amimon has announced it has formed a special interest group with industry heavyweights like Samsung, Motorola, Hitachi, Sharp, and Sony to form a new special interest group dedicated to developing a new industry standard for multi-room, high-definition wireless media. The group hopes to have the details hammered out by the end of 2008, based on current WHDI technology. “The development of the new standard will ensure… Read More

I might have a high tech background, but I’m a fashion girl at heart, which is why the new trend in stylish technology has me more than excited. After years (and years) of being limited to relatively bland, boring design in cell phones, PCs and laptops, we’re suddenly bombarded with sleek, colorful products that look slick on a desktop or in your pocket. Should we all thank Apple for this? Probably. After all, it was only… Read More