Santa Clara, Calif. - A consortium of consumer electronics and wireless technology developers -- including Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Samsung -- announced on Wednesday that they have partnered to jointly develop a new industry standard for wireless high-definition video. The WHDI (Wireless Home Digital Interface), a technology developed by Israel-based Amimon that includes a video-modem that operates in the 5GHz unlicensed band, will form the basis of the standard, which the companies hope to complete yet this year.

Along with Sony and Samsung, WHDI is supported by firms including Motorola (NYSE: MOT), Sharp and Hitachi.

The technology is generally aimed at eliminating some of the cord clutter around consumer electronics in the home.

The stated objective of the group is to enhance current WHDI technology to enable wireless streaming of uncompressed HD video and audio between consumer electronics devices such as LCD and plasma HDTVs, multimedia projectors, A/V receivers, DVD and BD players, set-top boxes, 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," the companies said.

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