AMIMON, Hitachi, Motorola, Samsung, Sharp and Sony banded together to form a special interest group to develop a new industry standard for multi-room audio, video and control using Wireless Home Digital Interface (WHDI) technology. They even say they’ll have it done by year’s end.

The consortium points to the WHDI video-modem‘s ability to operate in the 5GHz unlicensed band as the impetus for this standards push. The technology allows wireless delivery of uncompressed HD video (including 1080p) with secure, encrypted delivery through multiple rooms and other potential signal obstructions, such as people and furniture, with less than one-millisecond latency.

The objective of this special interest group is to enhance the current WHDI technology to enable wireless streaming of uncompressed HD video and audio between CE devices such as LCD and plasma HDTVs, multimedia projectors, A/V receivers, DVD and BD players, set-top boxes (STBs), game consoles, and PCs. The new interoperable standard aims to ensure that CE devices manufactured by different vendors will simply and directly connect to one another.