CE giants get together on wireless HD

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Seven of the world's largest consumer electronic manufacturers say consumers will soon be able to ditch the mess of wires behind their HDTVs, PVRs, DVD players and so on in favor of an uncompressed wireless connection. LG Electronics Inc., Matsushita Electric Industrial (Panasonic), NEC Corporation, Samsung Electronics, Sibeam, Inc., Sony Corporation and Toshiba Corporation announced today 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...