Wireless Video Standard

When connecting electronics with a wire, there are a set of standards people use.  When you network devices, you use an Ethernet cable.  When you connect audio, you have a suite of cable types.  If you are connecting storage or peripherals, you use USB.  If you are connecting video, you use an HDMI cable.

When you try to connect the devices wirelessly, most connection types have a standard.  For networking, you use WiFi.  For peripherals and audio, you can use Bluetooth.  For video, you have nothing.

Having a wireless standard comes in handy when you want to hook up your phone to a TV.  It can help when you have a lot of devices that need to be hooked up to a TV.  Imagine not having to hook up a bunch of HDMI and component cables to the TV.  There is already a device pair that can transmit an HDMI signal wirelessly to a receiver.

On top of that, it fits in with my vision of how we might use phones as our computers.  To convert a phone into a computer, you need a keyboard, a mouse, a speaker and a screen.  Instead of hooking up a bunch of cables, you can use Bluetooth for most of the connections.  The one missing piece is the video.  Imagine being able to sit down at someone's desk and start using the keyboard/mouse/screen combo without having to taken your phone out of your pocket.