A new survey by In-Stat has revealed that wireless video-enabled HD product shipments will grow steadily over the next five years but not without what the analyst refers to as ‘growing pains'.
Shipments will likely rise from the current levels of less than 1 million to nearly 13 million by 2014, what would amount to triple digit growth.
The survey "Wireless HD Video Technology: WHDI and WirelessHD Establish Market, While WiGig Establishes Specification" highlights the fact that a number of video transmission technologies-WHDI, WirelessHD, and WiGig Alliance-are vying for a dominant position.
WHDI is backed by AMIMON and WirelessHD is championed by chipmaker SiBeam and backed by NEC, Panasonic, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba, and LG. WiGig Alliance members include: Broadcom, Dell, Intel, LG Electronics, Microsoft, NEC, Nokia, NXP, Panasonic, and Samsung. All technologies will likely face strong competition from various Wi-Fi categories plus Intel's Wireless Display (WiDi) initiative, and Sony's TransferJet.
In-Stat believes that even though the average selling prices for WHDI and WirelessHD will fall over 25% annually through 2014, device shipments for products based on the technologies will grow at triple-digit annual percentage rates through 2014.
"The long term projection is for significant growth in wireless HD video-enabled product shipments. However, these technologies are likely several years away from hitting the sweet spot of the consumer electronics (CE) and PC markets," explained Brian O'Rourke, Principal Analyst for In-Stat. "There are still significant price and performance issues that need to be overcome before device manufacturers fully adopt these technologies."