Nyrius Pro - broke the DC post with silliness, opened it up to fix. Take a look inside.

[William Demeritt]

WHDI is a specification. AMIMON is a chip manufacturer. WHDI devices have many manufacturers, but they pretty much all use AMIMON chips to achieve wireless.

 

http://www.whdi.org/About

 

I think it's safer to say wireless HD started as a professional need, went consumer as HDTV took off, and now spans both worlds.

 

This thread derail isn't contributing much to the original thread. I'm gonna start bullying in a moment.

[Brian Freesh]

Both Jess and Will seem to have missed my point, I think partly due to my non-expertness, and partly due to my own lack of specificity.

 

I was talking about Amimon chips entirely. I am aware (and I believe Alan as well, but I don't know) that Camwave and Boxx use Amimon chips. I didn't specify this because I wrongly assumed that was a given at this point in the discussion. My understanding from discussions long ago with Will is that WHDI was only used by Amimon in consumer devices until used in devices such as the Arrow and the Bolt. Maybe I am wrong about that.

 

Regardless, it appears to me that Alan is saying the chips used in the Arrow, Bolt, Micro, Nyrius, are different than the chips used in Camwave and Meridian, and were previously only considered for the consumer market. And that was my point. I think others (rightly, based on context) assumed Alan was talking about Amimon as a whole, rather than the specific chipset used.

 

I meant only to clarify and apparently confused all the more.

[Alan Rencher]

Whidi is not a standard. Amimon is the sole owner.

[chris bangma]

Funny, the WHDI.org says it is a standard, and it is comprised of a few companies... At least use google before you spew facts...

 

http://www.whdi.org/Members

[Alan Rencher]

Those are manufactures that use amimon chips for consumer device. Funny, I think there is a thread on this forum somewhere that might be addressing certain people who have responded in this thread. For the record, I have no stake in any of this, so I'm leaving this thread.

[Jens Piotrowski SOC]

Whdi is a standard, just like usb or SDI is a standard.

[William Demeritt]

Let's talk about actual Steadicam operating in this thread! It'll be like our secret hideaway!

[Michael Desiderio]

Well thread derailed in a matter of hours. Thanks guys!

[GrantCulwell]

Oh good, my Soap is on!

 

 

Due to the drama and entertainment many of our threads have become, "Oh good, my Soap is on!" will now be my response to most things on this forum. That is all. :P

[Michael Desiderio]

Has anyone bothered to convert the power on their paralinx, nyrius or similar receiver from the DC barrel jack instead to the mini-USB port? Doesn't look like a tough thing to do

[George Grammatikos]

Had anybody tried to pair nyrius receiver with bolt pro(multicast)?

[Alan Rencher]

Nyrius is physically incapable of multicast.

[Mike Gailing]

You won't be able to pair any other Amimon device with Bolt. Teradek has their own firmware and uses their own FGPA for all 2nd gen Bolt systems.

 

Alan is correct in stating that Amimon owns the technology and co-opts other companies to develop products around their chips. There are no other WHDI chips out there other than Amimon's.

 

Dan Kanes (Paralinx) did play a role early on to get Amimon to take the cinema and professional markets more seriously. Teradek did too, especially during development of the 2nd generation Bolt.

 

Truth is, the real influence came from the volume of sales by both Paralinx and Teradek, two companies that brought the price down substantially when compared to existing systems (Boxx) just a few years ago. If you go to Amimon's website, you'll see that their product offerings are almost exclusively professional or prosumer. You no longer see the very low end, Nyrius type products being offered.

 

Apologies for continuing to derail the original discussion ;)