Sony, Samsung and other consumer-electronics heavyweights are uniting to support a technology that could send high-definition video signals wirelessly from a singled-out set-top box to screens around the home.

The consortium due to be announced Wednesday is an urgent development in the race to create a definitive way to replace tangles of video cables, but doesn’t end it — both Sony and Samsung additionally are supporting a competing technology.

In the new consortium, Sony Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co.,

along with Motorola Inc., Sharp Corp. and Hitachi Ltd., will develop an industry standard around technology from Amimon Ltd. of Israel called WHDI, for Wireless Home Digital Interface.

“If you have a TV in the home, that TV will be able to access any source in the home, whether it’s a set-top box in the living room, or the PlayStation in the bedroom, or a DVD player in another bedroom. That’s the […]

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