As with any new technology, standardization will be a big key in order to get such products on the market in an affordable and acceptable form. For those waiting for such technology, it should be encouraging that WHDI has so many industry leaders working on a product together. This helps with standardization.
Another obstacle will be existing televisions, which are not outfitted to receive wireless signals such as the kind that will be utilized by a wireless TV router for example. In order to take advantage of such technology, users will either have to replace television sets even their videocassette recorder with sets that can receive those signals, or buy an adapter for existing televisions. So even after buying the wireless TV router, there is likely to be some additional expense. Further, with more TVs in more rooms of the home, it may take a lot of extra cable to fully outfit each set.