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Wireless HDMI is a technology for wireless high-definition audio and video signals transmission on consumer electronics products.

The HDMI Founders are Hitachi, Matsushita Electric Industrial (Panasonic/National/Quasar), Philips, Silicon Image, Sony, Thomson (RCA), and Toshiba. HDMI has the support of motion picture producers Fox, Universal, Warner Bros., and Disney, along with system operators DirecTV, EchoStar (Dish Network), and CableLabs.

The HDMI Founders began development on HDMI 1.0 in 2002 with the goal of creating an AV connector that was backward-compatible with DVI. At the time, DVI were being used on HDTVs. HDMI 1.0 was designed to improve on DVI-HDTV by using a smaller connector and adding support for audio, enhanced support for YCbCr, and consumer electronics control functions.

HDMI is becoming the de facto standard for HDTVs, and it is estimated that HDMI has reached an installed base of over 600 million HDMI devices and that all digital televisions by the end of 2009 would have at least one HDMI input.

In 2008, PC Magazine awarded HDMI a Technical Excellence Award in the Home Theater category for an "innovation that has changed the world".

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