|
Broadcom Signs On with WirelessHD Consortium
(Wireless News Via Acquire Media NewsEdge)
Broadcom, a provider of semiconductors for wired and wireless
communications, announced at the IFA Show in Berlin that it has joined
the WirelessHD consortium as a promoter company with a mutual goal of
helping to enable wireless connectivity for streaming high definition
(HD) content between consumer electronics devices and displays.
As a promoter company, Broadcom will help to position WirelessHD as an
organization for the advancement of standards used in the wireless home
audio and video technology space by developing advanced solutions that
will lower the cost of wireless video distribution.
"Broadcom is pleased to support the WirelessHD consortium as a promoter
company and recognizes the importance of creating an industry-led
effort for a next generation wireless digital network interface
specification that enables the seamless delivery of voice, video, data
and multimedia," said Dan Marotta, Senior Vice President & General
Manager of Broadcom's Broadband Communications Group. "As the first and
only wireless digital interface that combines true uncompressed high
definition video, multi-channel audio, intelligent format and control
data, and Hollywood approved content protection, we look forward to
working with the WirelessHD consortium to achieve the mutual goal of
providing consumers with a quick, simple and secure way to connect and
transmit HD content among a wide range of digital devices."
WirelessHD is an organization dedicated to the advancement and
enhancement of the WirelessHD standard, which has specified the
unlicensed, available 60 GHz frequency band to enable wireless
uncompressed high definition, high-quality video and data transmission.
WirelessHD provides a high-speed wireless digital interface that will
enable customers to simply connect, play, transmit and port their HD
content in a secure manner at speeds as high as 4 Gigabits per second
(Gbps) in real time.
"Broadcom has been a long time proponent and leader in the
standardization and certification of a variety of communications
technologies. Their experience and diversity of product categories will
assist the consortium in achieving a widely implemented and
interoperable standard," said John Marshall, President and Chairman of
WirelessHD. "Broadcom's wired and wireless technology expertise at the
communications core level provides additional synergies that will
provide more reliable and robust communications between
WirelessHD-enabled devices. We are excited to work with Broadcom to
reinvent the way consumers access, control and experience their
multimedia content."
((Comments on this story may be sent to newsdesk@closeupmedia.com))
((Distributed on behalf of 10Meters via M2 Communications Ltd -
http://www.m2.com))
((10Meters - http://www.10meters.com))
Copyright ? 2008 Wireless News
[ Back To LatinAmerica.tmcnet.com's Homepage ]
|
