During the CES in January 2009, a panel discussion between representatives & vendors of the following formats will take place:  AMIMON, a WHDI supporter; Pulse-LINK, HDMI supporters; SiBEAM, WirelessHD supporters & ProVision, the 802.11n backer, CDFreaks reports.

Out of the 4 standards, only 802.11n "is the only standard capable of cost-effectively transmitting interactive wireless HD video across all rooms within a home," said Professor Andrew Nix.

Sony, Samsung, Sharp, Broadcom, Hitachi & Motorola joined the WHDI Special Interest Group to promote a new 5 GHz platform.

"SiBEAM has recently completed a new round of fundraising, successfully securing the participation of two major backers, Panasonic and Samsung," ABI Research analyst Steve Wilson said in a statement.  "Broadcom has also joined the consortium.  Meanwhile Mitsubishi has announced its choice of the Amimon chipset.  All these are positive signs from major stakeholders in this incipient market."

Intel, Panasonic, LG Electronics, NEC, Toshiba, Samsung and Sony also are supporting a 60Hz technology used by WirelessHD.

Despite the advances in technology, very few products are shipping with wireless HDTV technologies.