Wireless Home Digital Interface (WHDI) is a wireless standard that allows uncompressed delivery of high-definition video. This would allow a person to have a personal computer in one room with e WHDI capable graphics card, and allow it to stream a movie to a WHDI enabled HDTV in another room. We have talked about WHDI before, and even included a review of it from PC Perspective. Today, Guru3D brings you another review of the KFA2 GTX 460 WDHI graphics card. What did they think of WHDI?
WHDI in the sense of the wireless signal works pretty darn well. Advertised you get 100 Ft / 33 Meters at your disposal to work with. Now we can’t 100% concur how exact that figure is, as a lot of the distance available to you will depend on how cluttered your 5 GHz band is. For example if your neighbors all love and use Wireless N routers, that might hinder the signal.
However, we have a 5G enabled router as well, and our network is cluttered and smeared with wireless signals yet that did not stop this solution to break through one concrete iron bar enforced floor and a distance of roughly 10 meters. In this environment we had a flawless signal.
Impressive stuff. I like the sheer innovation and technology here.
Want to see your computer, but not be physically near it? Maybe hook it up to your TV, but not deal with the whirring fans or sheer size & ugliness of the case? Galaxy’s KFA2 brand hears your complaints, and has just announced the new ‘GTX460 WHDI’ that enables wireless communication to a single display at full 1080p 60fps resolution using WHDI protocols in the 5GHz frequency band.
WHDI has a range of 30m (around 100ft for those still working in Imperial), and can work through obstacles and walls. This, says KFA2, provides a ‘hassle-free way to connect sources anywhere within a room or enable multiple connections.’ The WHDI standard supports HDCP 2.0, so it can route protected content (Blu-ray films, for example) without a problem.
Today appears to be a Galaxy day. However, this next prototype is really cool. [H]ard|OCP lets us know that Galaxy is announcing that they are working on adding the Wireless Home Digital Interface (WHDI) to some of their graphics cards. WHDI delivers high-definition video connectivity without the use of any wires. Instead, WHDI uses the 5GHz unlicensed band to deliver video data rates of up to 3 Gbps. This will allow uncompressed 1080p to be delivered wirelessly. Imagine having a PC and having your desktop streamed wirelessly anywhere in the house.
While we cannot discuss what specific Galaxy card(s) you will find WHDI technology on, Galaxy has really good things to say about its testing experiences with WHDI. It will likely be a few more months before we see this on retail shelves. Transmission power is strong, can go through walls easily, and can run a Blu-ray movie with solid results. This type of product could turn your TV in any room into a Blu-ray player, or mirror your desktop to provide easy viewing to anyone that you wanted to share it with locally.
Want to see your computer, but not be physically near it? Maybe hook it up to your TV, but not deal with the whirring fans or sheer size & ugliness of the case? Galaxy’s KFA2 brand hears your complaints, and has just announced the new ‘GTX460 WHDI’ that enables wireless communication to a single display at full 1080p 60fps resolution using WHDI protocols in the 5GHz frequency band.
VizWorld.com 
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