There are currently already two wireless HD standards being pushed, WHDI and Wireless HD, but a third group, the WiGig Alliance, touts 6Gbps transfer rates with pass-through wall capabilities.

CORP TALK: According to a report by The Industry Standard, more than 15 technology firms announced the formation of the Wireless Gigabit (WiGig) Alliance today, aimed to create a unified specification for 60 Gigahertz (GHz) wireless technologies that would allow different HD devices to share 1080p content wirelessly in a room with speeds of up to 6 Gigabits per second.

Prompted by the proliferation of high-def digital multimedia content and the increasing need for faster wireless connectivity (and just to add, the incessant choke-risk of cable-wires at the back of our tellies), the alliance is just one of many others already formed over the past year (such as the Wireless Home Digital Interface or WHDI, which includes members like Hitachi, Motorola, Samsung, Sharp and Sony, and the AMIMOM chipset solution, AND the Wireless HD consortium, whose members include Intel, LG, Panasonic, Sony, Toshiba, Samsung, Philips, etc. who are promoting the SiBEAM chipset solution).

While the WHDI standard is reporting wireless HD transfer rates of up to 3Gbps with a 100-feet range and through walls, the Wireless HD consortium is promoting up to 4Gbps within a 10-meter radius. The WiGig Alliance however, though somewhat similar to the SiBEAM spec, says 6Gbps, but through walls.

The WiGig Alliance currently has 15 companies on its wagon (Atheros, Dell, Intel, LG, Marvell, Microsoft, NEC, Nokia, Panasonic, Samsung among others), and it is believed they’re adding more in the months to come. The group’s vision is to create a unified single standard that would allow products within a typical room to interoperate with each other without wiring so that it would be easier to transfer large chunks of content (data, audio, video, etc.) from one device to another at blistering speeds. Imagine watching a Blu-ray movie on your HDTV without a HDMI wire from the Blu-ray player.

While the standard is set to be finalized by the fourth quarter of 2009, expect products with WiGig standards to appear only later next year. One thing’s for sure, while spaghetti wires at the back of your living room devices may slowly become a thing of the past, new (and oftimes confusing) wireless HD standards may become a new thing to filter through and look out for.