I spend some time on Twitter, and yesterday I noticed a lot of online chatter happening around a panel rAVe put together for LAVNCH WEEK 2.0. Kudos to the staff at rAVe for curating the speakers, because to my knowledge, the people on the panel and the groups they represent had never been assembled together […]
RTI today announced its product lineup for Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2019, taking place Feb. 5-8 in Amsterdam. In Stand 1-N85, the company will be showcasing media distribution and collaboration solutions for classrooms, lecture halls, and meeting spaces, including the new VXU-SC video conferencing system. In addition, the company’s Miravue VIP-1 video-over-IP system and VMS-741 […]
RTI today announced that it’s now shipping the Miravue VIP-1 video-over-IP system. The VIP-1 acts as a transmitter and a receiver and uses JPG 2000 compression to convert 1080p HDMI video to H.264 with Dolby 5.1 audio via a 100Mbps network. The VIP-1s built-in scaler matches the displays’ maximum resolution, while automatically providing stereo downmixing […]
Back in the spring, I launched a series of blogs on The Hard Truth about Selling Soft Service(ices) focusing on why AV has had a hard time turning the corner to managed services, software, video over IP and AV as a Service (AVaaS). I wrote about the first two hurdles in separate posts dealing with […]
By Tom Vanthuyne Business Development Video Products, Silex Insight Ever since ancient civilization, people have been compressing goods; think olive oil, wine, flour, tomato paste… it is simply the most efficient way to store and transport bulky stuff. You preserve the essentials and get rid of the redundancies. When it comes to video, it has […]
RTI today announced its product lineup for CEDIA Expo 2018, taking place Sept. 6-8 at the San Diego Convention Center. In Booth 2627, the company will be showcasing its new RTiQ intelligent remote monitoring solution, AV distribution solutions including the Miravue VIP-1 video-over-IP system and the latest version of RTI’s Integration Designer APEX programming software. […]
tvONE has announced the shipping of its Video Over IP solution for CORIOmaster video processing systems. The IP video encoder, Magenta Encoder-100 announced earlier this year, will begin shipping as well as the new 128 GB Streaming Media & 4K Playback Module. Along with these two new hardware additions, tvONE has also upgraded its system design software, CORIOgrapher, to […]
Gefen just launched a new Video-over-IP system that includes both a Transmitter/Sender and Receiver set. The new Sender and Receiver KVM units (the EXT-UHDV-KA-LANS-TX and EXT-UHDV-KA-LANS-RX) are 4K@60Hz (4:2:0) at 8-bit color and have a built-in scaler, Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) and digital/analog audio break-out. Spec’d to handle 3840×2160 at 60 Hz and 4:2:0 chroma subsampling and uses a 1 Gigabit network switch. Both products […]
Exterity today announced that it has launched its new AvediaStream g4415-lk TV gateway. The new g4415-lk includes support for Samsung LYNK encryption, enabling Exterity powered IP video systems deployed with Samsung SMART hospitality TVs to make the most of the efficient and cost-effective Samsung LYNK DRM solution. The AvediaStream g4415-lk TV gateway captures content-protected live […]
I had an interaction the other day with someone else in the AV industry who was looking to collaborate on a blog. This person was looking for some AV Industry folks to help provide content on a subject that I actually know quite a bit about and was eager to assist with. I connected and […]
On October 1st of this year, Crestron Electronics sent out a press release that its DMCO 7-series streaming card for DigitalMedia was now shipping. This card was not a huge surprise to the industry, as it had been rumored/discussed since InfoComm of 2012. In addition, the technology had been seen by many people in Crestron’s […]
Blonder Tongue Labs announced this week it’s shipping its new encoder that sends HD video over IP for less than $850 USD per channel. The HDE-8C-QAM MPEG-2 HD supports DolbyDigital audio encoding and accepts programs from eight component or composite inputs, such as satellite receivers and cable set-top boxes. It also offers the built-in ability […]
